RecognizeGood

I had a great time interviewing Patrick Buchta with ATX Musicians for the Recognize Good Ethics in Business award! Our Business and Community BADM4380 course has partnered with RecognizeGood to narrow down the finalists for the Ethics in Business Award in 4 categories. My group is interviewing around 7 nonprofit organizations for the Nonprofit category. Can’t wait to meet the rest of the nominees and put together our insights!

Today, RecognizeGood hosted our annual Say Thanks, Austin Closing Ceremony! After a year where RecognizeGood celebrated its 150th volunteer Legend honoree and topped $400,000 in charity donations celebrating those volunteers, the 15th annual Say Thanks Austin Campaign's closing ceremony at City Hall certainly felt like a milestone for the program. We are continuously inspired by our RecognizeGood Legends and want to share our sincere thanks to our Class of 2024 Legends for going above and beyond to make our communities throughout Central Texas a better place! Special thanks to City Hall for hosting us to make this gathering extra special, and for Council Member Paige Ellis and ATX Good News’ Judy Maggio for MC’ing! Congrats to our top 3 winners, Mickey Perkins of Schoolyard Dogs in Wimberley received the $10,000 donation, flanked by her son Jasper and teammate Noah. Cynthia Ferrell received a $5,000 donation to Milam Adult Resource Center (MARC) in Rockdale, while Don Saegert took a $2,500 donation back to Drive A Senior ATX. All of our other Legend honorees received a $500 donation We are proud to share that we received nearly 70,000 Thank You Votes this year from all over the world, so thank you to everyone for participating and helping us to illuminate the good being done right here in Central Texas ??

Reflecting back on more than 14 years of getting to share our thanks with so many incredible volunteers throughout Central Texas through our Legends Program, which has honored 150 volunteers to date giving back nearly $400,000 to local nonprofits! Year after year, our Legend honorees continue to inspire us and help show our community all of the GOOD that's being done in our own backyards. ???? Nominate your Legend at the link below: https://lnkd.in/gkDd9s9m

Quick tip on how to make sure your votes count for our 2025 Say Thanks, Austin campaign! When filling out our voting forms, please make sure each line is filled in and contains a signature in order for your vote to be counted! Good luck to all of our 2024 Legends, and remember to vote every way every day ??????

Want to start your year off by showing your thanks to 10 local volunteer Legends? Make your gratitude count! Click, email, DM, text or write your appreciation for one or more volunteer all-stars now through 1/31. The volunteer with the most Thank You votes receives a $10,000 donation to their charity of choice! Click the link below to vote online now: https://lnkd.in/emKaJxY

Say Thanks, Austin - an annual event that directs our community's attention to a group of incredible local legends who have made huge impacts on those around them through their selfless volunteerism officially launches today! The 2024 RecognizeGood Legend Award winners and their support teams will be working hard this month for Thank You votes, and they could use your help to get them a step closer to the $10,000 pay-it-forward donation awarded to the winner. Check out our 10 Legend Award recipients from this past year and read more about their stories at the link below: https://lnkd.in/emKaJxY

Last night we visited the Maywald Christmas Light Display to welcome our newest Lighthouse Award recipient, the Maywald family! Since 2015 the Maywald family has put on this beautiful donation-based Christmas light display where all proceeds go towards Make-A-Wish? Central & South Texas. They have raised over $320,000 to date granting more than 40 kid's wishes through the years at Make-a-Wish! Be sure to check out their light display this holiday season, we had a blast! Thank you to the Maywald's and the entire team at Make-a-Wish for all that they do for our community. To read more about their story, click the link below: https://lnkd.in/gHZr-6bY

Amazing group of people led by the incredible efforts from Jarrett Crippen, Susan Pratt and team! We got to say thanks to the hundreds of volunteers scaring the hell out of people for over 20 years, all for a great cause - Breast Cancer Resource Center (BCRC). Of course they had their volunteer appreciation event at the Lorraine Ghost Town in Manor where they filmed The Walking Dead ... but it was daylight, thank God! The group immediately paid forward the $1000 to Gavin's Gift of Grace in honor of a longtime volunteer who unexpectedly passed earlier this year. What a moment! Amy Gouldie thank you as well for your awesome work supporting families grieving the loss of a child ??

Yesterday,?RecognizeGood?welcomed our newest Lighthouse Award recipient,?Scare for a Cure! ??Scare for a Cure hosts an annual haunt each fall whose proceeds go primarily to the Breast Cancer Resource Center, raising over half a million dollars to date! The team at Scare for a Cure decided to direct their pay-it-forward donation to?Gavin's Gift of Grace, an amazing organization whose mission is to provide both emotional and financial support to grieving families. Thanks so much to the team at Scare for a Cure for hosting us at their annual wrap party, and for all they do for others in our community! To read more about the work that they do, check out their story at the link below: https://lnkd.in/gxijMik8

Yesterday, RecognizeGood welcomed our tenth and final 2024 Legend Award honoree, Cynthia Ferrell with the Milam Adult Resource Center! ?? For over 15 years, Cynthia has volunteered with MARC in Rockdale to provide support to adults with IDD and has raised over $400,000 to date through their annual charity auction! Special thanks to the team at MARC for coming out to celebrate Cynthia's impact, and for all that they do for their community! To read more about Cynthia and the work that she does with MARC, check out her Legend Page at the link below: https://lnkd.in/gxERdSDQ