ACL Cares
ACL CaresA huge thanks and major kudos to everyone who has gone to ACL Festival over the years. Every ticket purchased to the Festival directly benefits Austin Parks Foundation, and helps improve parks throughout Austin.
Check out our Rock and Recycle Program to see more examples on how we keep Zilker, and the planet, a little more clean.
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Our Wildfire Relief Effort
Help us raise money for our friends, families, and neighbors in Central Austin who lost so much to the recent wildfires. On your way in each day, between 10AM-6PM, stop by the Do Good Bus parked at Volunteer Headquarters on Barton Springs Road (across from the main Festival entrance) to make a cash or check donation to the Red Cross of Central Texas and/or the Texas Wildfire Relief Fund.
Artists playing this year’s show (including Foster The People) will be stopping by to hangout and take pictures with all of you do-gooders. Plus, C3 Presents has pledged to match every dollar raised on Friday. More Info >>
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Austin Parks Foundation is the presenting sponsor and beneficiary of ACL Festival and a 501©3 non-profit organization committed to collaboration, action and advocacy for area parks and trails.
Since 1992, the foundation has advocated for bonds and funding to acquire parkland and improve park facilities. Over 45 community groups have adopted nearby parks and trails and APF assists them with technical help, tool loans, fiduciary services, neighborhood park grants and countless volunteer workdays. Our tremendous thanks to the attendees of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. More Info >>
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The AMP Vision is to develop a stronger and more connected culture within the creative class that can unify to support the long term mission of AMP and the growth of Austin’s broader creative community.
Under this Vision, the AMP group seeks to work with all groups and stakeholders within the creative class in Austin, drive a sustainable, growing, and leading music economy in Austin and support musicians and music industry employees as they build careers in music.
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Anthropos Arts
For 13 years, Anthropos Arts has been promoting equal opportunity in music education by bringing Austin’s top professional musicians into low-income, Title I schools to offer free lessons, workshops, master classes, and performance opportunities to at-risk middle and high school students.
You may have seen the Anthropos kids on stage at ACL in years past, rockin out some Fela Kuti, Celia Cruz, and/or John Coltrane. These students learn from the best, and earn their lessons through hard work and dedication. Anthropos not only takes them to the big stages, but also brings virtuoso musicians into the schools to lead concerts and workshops on campus (even Grammy-winning ACL artists Ozomatli!). This year, come visit ACL Cares to learn more about the organization, meet the students, and find out how YOU can help change a student’s life through music! More Info >>
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Carbon Offsets
Prior to the Festival, fans are offered the chance to purchase certified carbon offsets from Green Mountain Energy Company when buying their tickets or anytime they visit the festival’s website. By adding the $3.00 Green Mountain Energy® FanTag to a ticket, fans offset the equivalent of 220 pounds of CO2. That’s like not driving a car 245 miles, recycling 550 aluminum cans, or planting 13 trees. Over the past five years, Festival producers have offset the carbon dioxide emissions created by the event’s generators, shore power, staff travel and festival vehicles.
C3’s commitment to track and offset Austin City Limit’s carbon footprint, along with offering event goers an easy way to offset their own emissions, has helped to offset approximately 3,400 metric tons of CO2! This has the same environmental impact as taking approximately 240,000 cars off the road for one day, or the amount of CO2 absorbed in a year by over 450,000 trees. All carbon offsets purchased from Austin City Limits will benefit the Southtex Greenwood Farms project in Taylor, TX. The project is third party certified by the Climate Action Reserve, which means the offsets are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable. Click Here to buy your FanTag now!
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Grounded In Music
Come learn how Grounded in Music is delivering the power of music education to disadvantaged Austin youth. More Info >>
HeadCount
HeadCount reaches young people and music fans where they already are – at concerts and online – to inform and empower. Through a national community of volunteers with diverse backgrounds and values, we come together to register, engage, and mobilize voters.
Our message is not about what party you support or where you land on an issue. It’s that you must speak to be heard. Stop by the HeadCount table at this year’s ACL Festival to register to vote, write a letter to your Congressperson, or take our “Fan DNA Poll.” More Info >>
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Health Alliance for Musicians (HAAM) is a groundbreaking project that provides access to affordable healthcare to Austin’s low-income, uninsured working musicians.
Formed in 2005, HAAM has served over 2,100 musicians many of whom say HAAM has changed their lives and saved their careers. HAAM works with five affiliate service providers including: The SIMS Foundation which provides mental health counseling and addiction treatment services, St. David’s Foundation which provides basic dental care, Seton Family of Hospitals which provides primary medical care, Estes Audiology which provides hearing health services and Prevent Blindness Texas which provides vision health services-eye exams, prescription if needed, voucher for free glasses.
HAAM has earned a 94% approval rating from musicians for quality of care and services. Even though the music industry brings in more than $1 billion to the Austin economy the musicians themselves often work multiple jobs and struggle to pay for rent, food and other basic expenses. Prior to HAAM the musicians were using the emergency room, the most expensive place to receive treatment, for their care. Now they have access to cost-effective, regular health services.
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Love Hope Strength Foundation
LHSF is an international, music-centric cancer charity dedicated to saving lives, one concert at a time. The mission is to save lives, right now, with the advances that have already been made in cancer care.
We do not fund cancer research, rather we use our funds to build and support cancer centers around the globe. Build awareness of global cancer needs and build the international marrow databases through the “GET ON THE LIST” campaign. More Info >>
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ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African activists and policy makers.
Backed by a movement of 2 million ONE members, ONE achieves change through advocacy. We hold world leaders to account for the commitments they’ve made to fight extreme poverty, and we campaign for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively. ONE is not a grant-making organization and we do not solicit funding from the general public. As we have always said, at ONE, ‘we’re not asking for your money, we’re asking for your voice.
ONE and its 2 million members, along with ONE’s predecessor organization DATA and other non-profit partners, have played an important role in persuading governments to support effective programs and policies that are making a measurable difference in fighting extreme poverty and disease. As a result of those programs, today nearly 4 million Africans have access to life-saving AIDS medication, up from only 50,000 people in 2002. Malaria deaths have been cut in half in countries across Africa in less than 2 years and 42 million more children are now going to school. More Info >>
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Rock the Vote’s mission is to engage and build political power for young people in our country. Founded twenty years ago at the intersection of popular culture and politics, Rock the Vote is growing its team and its campaigns in 2011, to support the tidal wave of young people who want to get involved in elections and seize the power of the youth vote to create political and social change.
Over the last two decades, Rock the Vote has registered more young people to vote than any other organization or campaign, and we intend to register and turn out millions more in years to come – and to be the best-informed place online where young people can find out what they need to know before casting a ballot. After years of declining participation at the polls, a new generation of young voters has arrived.
Millions of new voters between the ages of 18 – 29 cast ballots in 2004, 2006, and 2008. Rock the Vote is dedicated to building the political power and clout of the Millennial Generation by registering and turning out young people, by forcing the candidates to campaign to them, and by making politicians pay attention to youth and the issues they care about once in office.
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SharedEarth.com
SharedEarth is a free website that connects people who have land with people who want to garden or farm. Land owners share their land only with someone they trust and get free fruits, vegetables and flowers.
Gardeners get free access to land, share some of the produce with the land owner and keep the rest. It’s free and good for the planet! More Info >>
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The SIMS Foundation has provided mental health and addiction recovery services for Austin-area musicians and their families since 1995. Austin is hailed as “The Live Music Capitol of the World” for good reason.
Our city is home to 8,000 professional musicians and a music industry that contributes a billion dollars to the local economy each year. But it’s not always an easy gig. Irregular hours, travel schedules, financial insecurity and proximity to alcohol and drugs can take their toll on musicians and their families, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, relationship problems, and alcohol and drug abuse.
Professional musicians are often uninsured or underinsured and cannot always pay out of pocket for expensive counseling and addiction treatment. That’s why SIMS is here to help. Stop by the SIMS booth at ACL to find out how you can join the “I’m with the Band” campaign and help SIMS keep Austin musicians in tune.
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Nature Conservancy
Protecting natural places in our backyard and around the globe is our common cause. In this year of record drought, The Nature Conservancy recognizes the urgent need to protect and conserve water. Did you know that 97% of the world’s H20 is saltwater, and another 2.5% is frozen? That means the water needs of the entire world must be met on the less than 1% that is left.
Freshwater supply is a lynchpin in Texas’ economic, agricultural and social wellbeing. The Nature Conservancy of Texas has conservation projects that contribute directly to the health of the Edwards Aquifer, which serves two million residents across central Texas. Our work touches nearly a dozen Texas waterways too, including Barton Creek and the Pedernales and Brazos Rivers.
Our science-based projects recognize the urgent need to conserve and protect water resources for future generations. Stop by our ACL booth to learn more, and sign up to win a free kayak and become one of the million plus people working to protect nature and preserve life. Everybody in the water! More Info >>
