This place is amazing everybody there were very nice. Miss Claudia has helped me tremendously. I…read moretruly appreciate you. Mary L

Whenever I think about how I can give back to the community this is the first place that comes to…read moremind! The staff greets you with a smile on their face, even if it's 8am or 4pm! I know the donations that I give here will be given to people in need and no strings attached or price. Please when you have clothing, baby items, shoes, food ... you can bring it here!

I am a retired veteran living in Austin and needed a ride to& from the Veterans Clinic for an…read moreappointment.I called United for the People (referred by U.S.Administration on Aging).I spoke with Mr. Shorter,he gave me my options and made an appointment to pick me up. This is a Great service for Veterans in need.Jermaine was on time & very courteous and a true gentleman. United for the People 512 298 2532 Thank You Mr. Shorter for all you do. Ron Caro

Stellar organization, great people, amazing products/services, genuinely amazing.read more

Lovely little shop tucked away but filled with lots of beautiful treasures! It can be a bit hard to…read moremaneuver a cart when it's crowded but everyone is very friendly and pleasant. A tad dark inside but the store feels very welcoming. So many things to look at and choose from. Prices are very reasonable compared to the "big box" thrift stores. I had some luck with the jewelry section and some MCM vintage goodies. Not too close to my home but the trip was worth it. I plan to go again soon.

Honestly surprised nobody has left a review for this org yet…read more I love HCCM. Their Fresh Food Fridays have saved me and my husbands butt more than once when we are in a financial bind. Plus, some of the stuff they give out is some really high quality stuff! AND it reduces food waste. Total win-win. I love their thrift store. So many good finds and the prices are even better than other thrift stores I've visited around Austin. All the staff and volunteers I've been in direct contact with have been super nice. 2 thumbs up for this org, and thank you for brining some help/assistance to those of us in North Austin area. So many of these type of orgs operate in downtown Austin, so it's nice to have one close by.

Where to start. I was in a bad situation when a relationship is broken. You end up starting from…read morescratch. I didn't have any confident to be on my own with my two beautiful smart boys whom I've raised for so long. When someone mention to me about TBCH, I was scared to reach out to them maybe because of being judged or rejected. Few weeks later, I had to take that chance and do it for my boys. Being a single mother isn't easy, people look at you differently, but now I understand. You become who you are and should be proud that you have desire's and can accomplished anything. TBCH is a AMAZING program for single mom's who is going through tough times. They help you get resources that you need, career choices, help you save, your able to pay off debit, education, counseling, daycare, food, church, and mostly a safe place to live. TBCH-I want to say thank you for the bottom of my heart saving me from my heart ship and stress I went through and helping my boys succeed.

They helped me and my family through a tough time. They were very kind to us. The rec is also a…read moregood place to take kids(7th-12th). The people there at the rec are so kind and they go for dinner on Friday and some breaks they go on fun adventures. I would 100% recommend it if you need somewhere to recoup.

North Austin Youth Association is great organization that always put the kids first in my opinionread more

Furrbaby provides such a valuable service to the community by helping animals stay with families in…read moreneed of some food and other support. The volunteers are so helpful and they work hard to keep families together. Such a valuable service.

This organization helps pet owners with food so in tough times they don't have to surrender their…read morebeloved pets due to inability to purchase food and other items for periods of time. They will take donations for auction and checks to purchase food.

CASA ( Court Appointed Special Advocate )…read more Casa helps children who are abused and neglected. Let me repeat that, Casa helps children that are abused and neglected. They become involved in a child's life after it is determined that some form of abuse or neglect has happened! Casa of Travis County does a great deal to help children, in an expeditious, professional, yet caring manner. They do it with limited resources and a small army of volunteers. If your in the area drop by and find out how you can help. If your not in the area get in your car and give them a visit. If you can not go by their office check out their website and consider how you can help them. It's free, well it may cost you a little room in your heart but it wont hurt, I promise!

Great organization with a GREAT cause....volunteered for many events...everyone very dedicated to…read moretheir mission...

A Tale of Two Entities…read more Useful: 1. Settlement Home: Helps young girls who were abused have a place to live and thrive. It's a great nonprofit residential center that I hope no one on Yelp ever has a chance to use. 2. Settlement Home Garage Sale: At Palmer Events Center the first weekend in November. Friday you have to pay to get in. Don't bother. Saturday, it's free and it's a great day to scout out the merchandise and buy things you just can't go without. Sunday, the morning is pretty picked over, but the afternoon is the highlight of the whole thing. At a certain hour, they start selling boxes. Get there early, buy one or two boxes, depending on whether you think you can manage it. Plan to be trampled, nudged, elbowed, et cetera. Stuff your box as fast as possible and get the hell out. Funny: 1. My freshman year of college, my rooommate worked for Settlement Home, where abused girls get their lives on track. Some have been sexually abused, physically abused, and so on. I really respected that. This same roommate thought it was funny to tell her mom and boyfriend (stationed in Iraq, by the way) that she was pregnant. After he got someone to buy the ring (within 24 hours) and freaked out sufficiently, and her mom went a little nuts, she called both of them back and said, "Just kidding!." I don't respect that at all. 2. The people at the Settlement Home Garage Sale are friggin' animals. After I bought my box, I went to stand in front of the Center. "GET BACK BITCH! I'VE BEEN STANDING HERE FOR 20 MINUTES!" Wow. I stepped back about 10 feet, actually closer to the door. I think I actually got in before this woman. She had two of the largest boxes available, $8 apiece, duct taped together and on a big luggage rack. I went to the art section. She was sweeping entire tables full of frames into her boxes. She swept in a picture I was in the middle of grabbing. "Can I have that please?" "No!" "Are you even looking at what you're taking?' "NO! I JUST CARE ABOUT THE FRAMES, NOT THE ART, STUPID!" Well, she got a really interesting picture of Michaelangelo's "David" in the deal. Lucky lady. Cool: 1. The Settlement Home basically runs off the funds raised by the gigantic garage sale once a year. What a neat concept. But you can donate to them at any time. It's a good cause, really. 2. For a $3 box, I got the following: An antique intercom that doesn't work A bunch of Royal Doulton "Thistledown" bone china (valued at about $15 a plate) 3 novels 2 small framed photos A large framed photo of a broken window A toothbrush holder A citrus zester Two original, one-of-a-kind paintings What a deal!

I stayed at the forsaken place for a year and a half tooooo long!! I can't begin to tell you how…read moredreadful that this place was. I left fifteen years ago on my eighteenth birthday. My first opinion is that, if they still do, the settlement does NOT need to hire people who are basically kids themselves. I used to wonder if the "houseparents" had bad days, which I'm sure they did, we all did. It appeared as though they took their frustration out on the girls who lived there. Everytime you turned around somebody got a consequence for SOMETHING! Damn! I wonder if giving the girls a consequence for something made them feel taller and better about their egos, especially if they personally had a bad day before they got to work. I heard and saw how the "houseparents" used to gather around and talk about how they punished someone and how they had to restrain a girl and then they mentioned what kind of punishment they had given them. I feel I got punished every time I breathed fresh air. Instead of being punished, I felt as though they should have taught me the values of life. What's out there in life and PREPARE me for it!!!! I felt that there was no need to punish someone THAT often. Instead of punishing a girl, damn, get to know their past. See why they what they do, look behind the problem to correct it. A punishment is not going to do it. Work with them slowly. I should never have been in such a place anyway, but that is another story, in which my family and I are in court as we speak against the state for what their CPS worker did when I was eight years old. One of the houseparents told me that I had to be put on birth control, (I was not sexually active at the time), or else I would not be allowed to go anywhere on my own while I stayed there. I gave in and she ordered the birth control: I took the birth control for a month and a half and cheeked the bitch for the remainder of the time there. She never knew it, either. Then she told me that once a girl comes to the Settlement, it would be hard for she to leave it; I often still wonder sometimes if the Settlement home gets "high money" per girl who stays there. No wonder it would be difficult for she to leave unless she runs away. One of the staff had gone to court exactly two weeks before I left the hell hole, two weeks before I turned eighteen. She tried to testify to make me look bad. She told the court all kinds of fake crap and a bunch of lies!! I couldn't believe it, but then again, they are the state employees, which explains why the CPS worker ten years prior to the date did what she did. HEY!! I was trying to get emancipated, which didn't make sense at the particular time because I turned eighteen two weeks later, in which, I still left the hell hole! She couldn't stop me and didn't! My over all opinion of this place is that you people can do better and don't chastise the girls for not having a loving home who want them, they didn't ask to be born. It's not their fault that they are in such a place. Oh, yes, birth control and prozac, they call it, are popular drugs with this home and they have you open your mouth to show them that you swallowed them, but....damn I am good! I cheeked that crap all of its days! Oh!...& there is no need to feel as though you have to threaten me to not tell others that a houseparent was seen at a refund raiser for GAY people...or I would get a "consequence". They forever used that threat. God be with us all!!!!