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This week, Pat Munday made a $100,000 gift, doubling what she gave last year. Munday is the widow of Bill Munday, who owned car dealerships in Austin and Houston before his death in 2018. This year, she s been donating money to organizations like Season for Caring, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and Hungry Souls, which are helping to keep families fed during the pandemic. Since the program began in 1999, Season for Caring has given $15.1 million to local nonprofit organizations. The agencies use the monetary donations to help the featured families first but then are able to help hundreds of other clients throughout the year with basic needs such as food, clothing, rent, medications and transportation. ....
MollyBeth Malcolm, executive vice president for campus operations and public affairs at Austin Community College, said she reads the Statesman s Season for Caring program stories every year when they come out the Sunday after Thanksgiving. She keeps an eye on how ACC might be able to help. This year, she honed in on two Season for Caring families and started working with them to help them realize their education goals, including how to find funding. One of the people ACC is working with is 39-year-old LaChantia Anderson. She has been trying to get into computer coding since she was living in a motel in San Diego in 2016. Someone gave her a laptop, and she would sit in a coffee shop using the shop s WiFi to teach herself coding. Through years of being homeless on and off, she kept pursuing that dream. ....
LaChantia Anderson doesn t even remember the last time she went to the dentist. When she did, it was because the pain was so bad. All she could afford to have the dentist do was to pull that tooth. And then this past year, another tooth started hurting, she said, but she couldn t afford to get it pulled. On Friday, Anderson and her daughters Azyria and Aishiah were able to get help from dentist Dr. Kavin Kelp through Capital Area Dental Foundation and Season for Caring. This is the 10th year that Capital Area Dental Foundation has provided care for the families featured in the Statesman s Season for Caring program. Anderson and her daughters were nominated to Season for Caring by the Salvation Army Austin after years of struggling with homelessness. ....