A second grant from Houston-based Episcopal Health Foundation is aiming to address health issues in Bastrop County.
On Feb. 4, Central Texas Interfaith announced it received a $300,000 grant from the foundation to build sustainable organizing clusters in Bastrop, Brazos, McLennan and Williamson counties as well as in western Travis County.
The grant and organizing clusters will help CTI a non-partisan, multi-issue coalition of 50 congregations, labor organizations, nonprofits and schools continue to expand into a 10-county Central Texas region with a focus on health and well-being issues.
“This grant invests in the development of ordinary leaders in working class and marginalized communities across the region to secure their family’s health and well-being,” said Doug Greco, the lead organizer of CTI. “It doubles down on CTI’s organizing work in building non-partisan constituencies in legislative districts across the 10-county area.”
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Bastrop County has been designated a vaccination hub, so it must figure out how to hold mass vaccination events with the few resources it has.
Bastrop County is one of the smaller counties in Texas to have been designated a COVID-19 vaccine “hub” by the state. That means the county has to figure out how to get vaccines administered on a wide scale.
But the county has far fewer resources than many of the state s other vaccination hubs, which are in big cities like Austin and San Antonio. As a result, nonprofits such as Bastrop County Cares have started pitching in.