About the Center

The Center exists to promote, leverage and facilitate community collaborations and partnerships that broaden the horizons and possibilities for the Central Texas Nonprofit Sector. These collaborations reflect the Center’s ability to bring business, government and nonprofit sectors together around common goals. Collaborations.

Principles underlying the Center guide its overall operations.Among these are its reliance on the concepts and belief in strategic creativity and latent capacity.

Toward this end, the Center has achieved considerable credibility in Central Texas as well as throughout the State. Our focus on community problem-solving through applied strategic creativity is a model that has proven its value and effectiveness in the dozens of consultations and organizational and board development retreats which the Center has provided since its formation. Session by session evaluations reflect a customer satisfaction rate exceeding 95%

Established in 2000, the Center for Community-Based and Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College has served over 9000 individuals from over 3500 nonprofits, small businesses, and law firms, through the over 500 learning opportunities it has provided with the mostly pro bono services of over 200 session leaders. Indeed,

A large percentage of all Center learning opportunities are made available without charge given the Center’s egalitarian approach to building the community’s capacity to address challenges by strengthening the nonprofit sector.

Our name underscores our commitment to serving all organizations and groups, regardless of their formal organizational status, that seek to improve the quality of life for all the citizens of our community and nation.