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Austin Angels
Nonprofit Film · Austin
Austin Angels
Nonprofit Film · Austin
Austin Angels supports children and families in foster care in Austin. This is a nonprofit film for that work. If you need a donor or program film, call 719-964-6971 or start a project with us.
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Nonprofit Film
Austin Angels, A Donor And Program Film For Youth In Foster Care. Mentors, Kids, And The Dare To Dream Work.
Film by Adam Grumbo
Austin Angels supports children, youth, and families connected to foster care in Central Texas. GuideStar's profile for Transformations by Austin Angels, EIN 27-2087142, says the group became a 501(c)(3) in 2010 to support children in care and their caretakers. Hays Free Press later named founder and CEO Susan Ramirez, a Buda mother who started the work after a social worker invited her to a conference.
GuideStar writes that the organization was volunteer-run through 2015, piloted Love Box from October 2013, launched Love Box in 2015, and launched Dare To Dream mentoring in 2017. Community Impact placed the Austin chapter in Texas Foster Care Region 7, about 30 Central Texas counties including Travis and Williamson. The physical address on the organization's mentor pages is 401 FM 967, Buda.
This nonprofit film is for donors and volunteers who need to see the kids and the adults who show up. The Jasmine Star collaboration is a different cut. This film is the program on its own camera.
We believe lasting relationships are the most powerful intervention.
Who Hired The Camera
Civic teams hire us when a mentor program has to explain itself in a few minutes. Consistency is the product. The film has to show that someone keeps arriving.
Austin Angels' caregiver page states the line the chapters share: we believe lasting relationships are the most powerful intervention. Consistency builds trust. Trust builds stability. Stability changes outcomes. The same sentence sits on New Braunfels Angels and Chicago Angels pages. The brief here was that mission on camera: jackets, a yard, and an interview chair.
Dare To Dream And Love Box
Dare To Dream pairs youth and young adults ages 11 to 22 with one mentor. The organization's mentor page says mentors commit to at least two in-person meetings a month and a minimum one-year term, renewed annually. Matches are built around strengths, interests, goals, location, and compatibility. Mentors do not need prior foster-care jobs. Austin Angels trains them in trauma-informed care and keeps a case manager on the pair.
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The mentor FAQ lists the kind of hours a pair might keep: homework, college papers, sporting events, a meal, a job-interview practice, or sitting still long enough to say I believe in you. Applicants must be 22. A one-time $90 registration fee covers background check, onboarding, training, and matching, with a $30 annual renewal. Screening includes fingerprinting, state and federal checks, registry screens, and reference checks.
Love Box is the family program. Volunteers match with a foster or kinship household and show up monthly for a one-year term. GuideStar says the first National Angels chapter, Amarillo Angels, launched in 2016, and that the network later grew to 22 chapters. The film on this page stays with the Austin kids and the interviews.
What The Camera Held
On camera kids stand in a tight circle in puffy jackets. One red hood shows a gold Austin Angels Unity mark. A camouflage jacket and a blue jacket sit in the same huddle against a slatted fence.
Later a blonde speaker sits in a living room with a globe and a green lamp, talking to camera. The cut moves between those interviews and the outdoor group so a donate page can hold both the mission and the faces.
The stills are frames from that file: the huddle, the yard, and the living-room chair.
What The Film Delivers
A donor film has to travel after the last visit. Nonprofits use a cut like this on a give page and in a volunteer briefing. The stills stay with this program film.
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