Thank you to everyone who donated and/or came out to support equal access to justice in Central Texas and lawyer well-being on Saturday, Oct. 26!
We had two big events that day: One was the Pro Bono Fall Festival, held in conjunction with the Mother Attorney Mentors of Austin (MAMAs) to raise funds for Volunteer Legal Services (VLS) of Central Texas; and the second was the Out of the Darkness Community Walk to raise money for suicide prevention.
More than 50 people came out to enjoy the Pro Bono Fall Festival, which featured games, a dunk tank, an adult and child Halloween costume contest, and a magic show. We raised more than $8,000, which will be donated to VLS to provide legal services to those in poverty.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Great Pumpkin
• Baker Botts
• Barnett Garcia
• Beckstead Terry Ditto
• Civil Litigation Section of the Austin Bar
• FVF Law
• Ramos James Law
• Sanchez Law
Harvest Moon
• Almanza, Blackburn, Dickie & Mitchell
• DLA Piper
• Lloyd Gosselink
• The Roarty Law Firm
• Rose Resolution Group
• Sara E. Saltmarsh
• Severn Law
• The Tomlinson Firm
• UFCU Legal
Scarecrow
• Botkin Chiarello Calaf
• Carly Gallagher Murray
• Engleman Fallon
• The Haney Law Firm
• Hanna & Plaut
• Lucosky Brookman
• Ross Scalise Beeler and Pillischer
• Scott Douglass McConnico
• Solo/Small Firm Section of the Austin Bar
Candy Corn
• Lowell Keig
• Financial Institutions of the Austin Bar
And with special thanks to:
Music Water
Shiner Beers
Magician Dylan Love
Kara O’Shaughnessy
Hollie Toups
Mike Johnson
Sam Denton
Mary-Ellen King
Connie Ditto
The community walk was part of the national Out of the Darkness initiative of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). Each community walk raises money for the AFSP to conduct outreach, education, and research on suicide prevention.
Our team walked in the memory of Trevor Taylor and Aspen Dunaway. Aspen died by suicide in October 2023, and Trevor in January 2017.
Thanks to our Austin Bar community, our team raised more than $3,700 – making 370 percent of the $1,000 goal we initially set!
Thank you to our donors and team members:
• Kourtney Benton
• Kimberly Bishop
• Michelle Fontenot
• Deborah Hensley
• Ross Hyde
• Austin Kaplan
• Beth Keig
• Lowell Keig
• Mary-Ellen King
• Melissa Pina
• Toni Rask
• Robert Rice
• Rachel Rutter
• Shannen Scott
• Rachel Seshan
• Michael Singley
• Gabrielle Smith
• Zoe Taylor
• Joel Teklu
• Abigail Ventress
• Sara June Walton
• Kennon Wooten