Join Blackshear Bridge and friends for Love Your Neighbor, a benefit on Sunday, February 10, from 4-7 PM at Tamale House East, 1707 E. 6th Street.  We invite you to enjoy live Latin funk by Ex Romantika, an eclectic silent auction, and delicious appetizers.  

Tickets are a suggested $10 donation and all are welcome.  Sponsorships are encouraged at $1,000, $500, $250, or $100.  

Your generous contribution will help Central East Austin communities to honor the past, while creating an inclusive and affordable future.

Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution.

At the Feb. 10 Love Your Neighbor Benefit and Silent Auction, you will meet Blackshear Bridge members and the Hispanic Austin Leadership Team who are helping us to build affordability and unity in Central East Austin.  Special guest speakers are Austin’s newly elected District 1 City Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison and Dr. Colette Pierce-Burnette, Huston-Tillotson University President.

Blackshear Bridge is a 501c3 community-based nonprofit founded in 2014. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining diverse and sustainable communities in Central East Austin.  This Spring, your support will help us with a crescendo of creative place-keeping in our neighborhood: (1) the painting of a large mural on the front wall of Blackshear Elementary School facing E. 11th Street to honor the life and legacy of education innovator Principal Friendly R. Rice; (2) door-knocking and surveying for community affordability outreach and engagement; and (3) the mural unveiling at a Blackshear Elementary Reunion at the school on Friday, April 26. You are invited to attend!

We need your help to accomplish these important goals.  Your generous sponsorship of Love Your Neighbor will go a long way and show leadership to others.   Your sponsorship gift of $1,000, $500, $250, or $100 will support Blackshear Bridge’s vital efforts to empower long-time neighbors in Central East Austin.    

Click here to make a tax-deductible sponsorship contribution.

Blackshear Bridge will recognize your contribution on table cards and announcements at the event, on our website and Facebook page.  We will provide you with 6 tickets, a special gift at the Feb. 10 Love Your Neighbor Benefit and Silent Auction and an invitation to the mural unveiling on April 26.

To make your sponsorship donation, go to https://blackshearbridge.org/donate/ or mail a check to Blackshear Bridge, 1500 Gregory St., Austin, TX  78702. If you have any questions, want to volunteer or want more information, call Donna Hoffman at 512-299-5776 or email donnaleehoffman@gmail.com.  

All donations are tax-deductible.

Thank you for considering this request to help Blackshear Bridge.

Sincerely,   

Gina Tillis, Blackshear Bridge Board President

Matt Flores, Blackshear Bridge Board Member & Event Chairperson for Hispanic Austin Leadership

Donna Hoffman, Blackshear Bridge Director