This Year, Resolve to Make a Difference through FuturoFund Austin!

Are you tired of failed new year’s resolutions? Even with the best intentions, promises to lose weight or quit smoking can be hard to keep. In 2012, try a different approach. Pledge to do something meaningful, not just for yourself, but for others, too.

FuturoFund Austin invites you to join their unprecedented effort to make an impact in our community through philanthropy and leadership. The new year marks the beginning of FuturoFund’s membership cycle, and it is the perfect opportunity to make - and keep – a commitment to give back.

FuturoFund brings people together to support the needs of Austin’s rapidly growing Latino community. FuturoFunders are artists, nonprofit leaders, lawyers, elected officials, accountants, professors, social workers, graduate students and more. We are multi-ethnic and diverse in age, occupations and backgrounds. When you join FuturoFund, you become part of a network of talented and passionate leaders with a shared vision to be part of the solution and strengthen our community.

Every year, FuturoFund members collectively contribute to a charitable fund and together we decide which deserving organizations will receive our grants. Since 2008, FuturoFund has awarded $135,000 in grants, and developed more philanthropists and community leaders. Every dollar raised by FuturoFund goes directly back into our community to support incredible organizations like the Workers’ Defense Project, Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, Frameworks Community Development Corporation and Anthropos Arts. Most recently, FuturoFund awarded $40,000 in grants to AVANCE-Austin and the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition to support their critical work in the Latino community.

This year, go ahead and join a gym, but make sure you also become involved in something that makes a difference in someone else’s life. It can be as easy as joining FuturoFund, and it just might be the secret to keeping this year’s resolutions.

*article originally published in January 2012 issue of TODO Austin