Spirit of Compassion Awards
This fundraising and celebration event will honor local leaders who have mobilized faith and other community resources to alleviate homelessness in a spirit of compassion, hope and love. Evening festivities include:
libations & heavy hors d’oeuvres · awards · live music
live & silent auctions
- Corporate Tiller
- A business that has modeled "ground-breaking" employee giving or volunteer engagement programs to help grow and sustain a stronger community.
- Planter
- Founder or someone involved in poverty issues at the root level.
- Community Scion
- Community member whose work has brought new life to many – a person who helped form and grow organizations
dedicated to alleviating hunger, homelessness and poverty.
- Community Gardener
- Community member whose work and mentoring of others has actively shaped the field of homelessness services in
Austin.
- Seedling
- Volunteer responsible for early or continuing growth and development of FFH's programs.
- New Seeds
- Volunteers who do their best work in the trenches working closely with homeless families with children or adults,
recruiting new congregations and community groups, etc.
- Evergreen
- Long-time volunteer who has made volunteering for social services their way of life.
- New Bloom
- A formerly homeless person whose grace in overcoming adversity and acts of kindness in the community have inspired us.