Member-Owned Business Directory
Although these organizations are not "owned" by Wheatsville members, our members are active within them, and in some cases are the founders.
Wheatsville
Open
Daily 7:30am-11pm
3101
Guadalupe
Austin TX 78705
512-478-2667
Member-Owned
Businesses
• Art
& Art Supplies
• Bicycles
& Scooters
• Bodycare
• Bodywork
/ Movement
• Clothing
/ Accessories / Sewing
• Computers
/ Web / DTP/Printing
• Community
Service Organizations
• Counseling
(Licensed)
• Education
/ Instruction / Childcare
• Food
/ Cooking / Farms
• Handcrafted
Items
• Herbals,
Herbalists, Supplements
• Healthcare
• Housing
/ Hostels / Retreats
• Home
& Garden
• Legal
Services
• Music
/ Production /
Entertainment
• Pets
/ Animals
• Photography/Video
• Professional
Services
• Real
Estate / Apt Locating
• Spiritual
Growth/Coaches/Advisors
• Taxis
• Tours
• Travel
/ Accommodations
• Various
Goods & Services
• Writers
/ Publications
Community
Service Organizations
The ACLU
of Texas
Texas
Chapter http://www.aclutx.org
National
Organization
www.aclu.org
Supports special projects to
target specific civil liberties
issues.
Police Accountability--
Investigates racial profiling, police spying on
protesters, illegal searches, accountability for police
misconduct , and narcotics task forces that arrest the
lowest level drug offenders using tactics that encourage
corruption and false accusation.
Cyber-Liberties-- Electronic ballot boxes provide no
paper trail, and thus cannot be accountably audited when
computers
get the information wrong, whether through human error or
intentional voter fraud.
Banned Books Project --The goal is to raise awareness
about the level of challenges and bans in Texas public
school libraries and to encourage school officials to use
professional librarian standards when confronted with a
challenge.
Prison & Jail Accountability Project-- Monitors
prison and jail conditions and fights to open the prison
system to public scrutiny, with the ultimate goal of
replacing judicial oversight with effective citizen
oversight.
Action
For Animals
Speaking up for those who can't.
Action For Animals is a local, grassroots, nonprofit 501(c)3
group based in Austin, Texas. Our sole purpose is to defend
and protect the rights and lives of non-human animals.
Timothy 879-7437
www.actionforanimalsaustin.org
Culturally curious explorers since 1987. Events, studio & collection tours to promote the knowledge & preservation of all the folk arts.
Austin Friends of Folk Art's definition of "folk art" is broad and flexible enough to embrace everything from urban mural art, Feng Shui and Southwest Petroglyphs to Moroccan fortune-telling, Oaxacan wood carving and Byzantine icon painting. And that doesn't begin to describe the broad range of our interests, which really include any art by any folk! Follow us on facebook!
Need help caring for your elderly loved one? AGE provides free info, free DME, the only licensed adult day care in Central Texas. www.ageofaustin.org 512-451-4611
Austin Groups for the Elderly is a
non-profit organization empowering caregivers, the elderly
and their families through education, advocacy, resources
and support.
They accomplish this mission through their four
programs.
- Elderhaven Adult Day Centers provide comprehensive, therapeutic, and licensed adult day care that allows seniors and adults with disabilities to remain living independently as an alternative to early nursing home placement.
- The Caregiver Resource Center serves the elderly, adults with disabilities, their caregivers, families and health care providers with information, consultation, guidance and support.
- SeniorNet Computer Learning Institute offers basic to advanced hands-on educational computer classes for older adults taught by volunteers in a peer to peer setting.
- The Historic AGE Building provides centrally located, below-market-priced office space and shared resources for small and emerging non-profit organizations.
Austin
Memorial Burial & Information
Society
www.ambis.info
AMBIS is a non-profit organization of area residents
dedicated to helping our neighbors make funeral and memorial
arrangements that are dignified, meaningful and
affordable.
Austin
State Hospital Volunteer Services
Council
www.ashvolunteers.org
The ASH VSC is on a mission to enrich the lives of patients
at Austin State Hospital and the staff who serve them. Funds
raised by the VSC help provide educational materials for
patients and families, art supplies for education/rehab
classes, outings to sports and cultural events for
children and patients who require more long-term care, gifts
during the holidays, celebrations, musical performances on
campus, personal radios/CD players for patients with audio
hallucinations, emergency requests and support for Family
House.
Austin
Zoo and Animal Sanctuary
Austin Zoo is a nonprofit organization whose goals are
Rescue, Rehabilitation, Education and Habitat Preservation.
Adults and kids alike can enjoy the great outdoors and
experience a close-up look at animals from around the
world...all in family friendy
environment.
288-1490
Email-
Website- http://www.austinzoo.org
Crafting
Comfort
Providing comfort to those in need through gifts of
handcrafted items.
www.CraftingComfort.org
CivicAnimal.com
Keep up with City Council BEFORE action is taken-includes
forum & basic info on commissions, boards, members, etc.
445-3331
Email:
Crossings Care
Circle
Crossings Care Circle assists families by offering education
and resources for arranging their own home and family
funerals or wakes. The goal is to allow the family to
participate as much or as little as they want, making use of
some funeral home services if they choose.
www.crossingscircle.org
Dreamtime
Sanctuary
www.dreamtimesanctuary.org
Dreamtime has offered rescue, rehabilitation and sanctuary
for horses, burros, and other farm animals such as sheep,
goats and pigs since 1997. Current sanctuary residents
include 13 horses, 3 burros, 27 sheep, 12 goats and 15 pigs.
Dreamtime Sanctuary was founded to provide hope to such
animals and operates on the promise that those welcomed into
our midst are given permanent sanctuary to live out their
lives with care, peace and dignity. The sanctuary is located
on a rural road about four miles outside of Elgin, Texas.
512.581.2633
Dress for
Success Austin 
Provides interview suits, confidence boosts, and career
enhancement to low income women seeking employment who are
referred by nonprofit and government agencies. No charge to
the client.
To donate clothing or cash, volunteer, or become a
Membership Agency please call 512-916-4322.
website www.dressforsuccess.org
email
EarthSave
Promoting food choices that benefit the health for all life
on the planet.
Front
Lion
Organization
Frontline action
projects for cultural & community awareness. Dianah
Birdsong 512-803-5873 myspace.com/frontlionorg
GreenGirls.net
GreenGirls.net is
a network of powerful women who care deeply about our
environment. We find that coming together with other women
to learn and take action keeps us feeling positive, hopeful,
and strong in our beliefs and actions as citizens and
consumers. Be part of our network and have fun being
powerful together.
www.greengirls.net
The
Inside Books Project
www.insidebooksproject.org
The Inside Books Project was
first organized in Austin in 1998 and is a non-profit,
volunteer-run organization which provides free literature
and educational materials to Texas' incarcerated population.
While we focus our efforts on educational materials, we try
to fill any book requests sent to us by prisoners. We also
advocate for prisoners' rights to access to medical care,
education and libraries, legal aide, and safety. To donate
or volunteer, contact Inside Books Project 647-4803. Inside
Books Project is located at the Allen Street Warehouse, 300
Allen St. in East Austin.
Hospice
Austin
www.hospiceaustin.org
Hospice Austin is a non-profit organization that serves
terminally ill and bereaved persons in our community with
integrity, compassion and respect. Our services are designed
to improve comfort, manage symptoms and deal with other
difficulties such as emotional distress and grief. Hospice
Austin also provides important emotional and spiritual
support to families and friends as they cope with caring for
a loved one with an advanced illness, and the grief they
experience after their loved one dies. For more information
visit our website, phone 342-4700, or send email to
info@hospiceaustin.org
Rainforest
Partnership
www.rainforestpartnership.org
Rainforest Partnership is a
nonprofit corporation dedicated to protecting tropical
rainforests from deforestation in collaboration with local
communities in Latin America, and creating a connection
between those communities and communities in the U.S. in
order to raise public awareness of the role of rainforests
in climate protection. Their vision is a world in which we
all recognize our individual and collective responsibility
to preserve and maintain global resources by working
together for the common good. Austin Rainforest is
Rainforest Partnership's first
project.
Save
Our Springs Alliance
www.sosalliance.org
Our mission is to protect the Edwards Aquifer, its springs
and contributing streams, and the natural and cultural
heritage of its Hill Country watersheds, with special
emphasis on the Barton Springs Edwards
Aquifer.
SAY NO TO
GMOs
Grassroots education, activities & resources for
consumer choice & genetically viable future 303-1400
Stop CTA!
www.stopcta.info/
A private 'Central Texas Airport' is now in planning stages over in Bastrop County courtesy of the failed Manor airport developer Jim Carpenter. It will have the potential for up to 250 domestic and international flights a day including 737 cargo jets. FAA regulations have been exempted by the county. There will be only private security. No Environmental Impact Statement will be required even though the Colorado river and wildlife in the McKinney Roughs area as well as 20 established subdivisions will be 'at risk'. Eastern Travis county and air pollution in the 5 county non-attainment area will also be adversely affected. No way CTA! It's not gonna fly!! Learn more at http://www.stopcta.info/ Call 303-1400 or 321-6642.
Sunshine
Community Gardens
http://www.main.org/sunshine/index.html
With over 200
gardeners, Sunshine Gardens is one of the largest community
gardens in the nation. Come by! 4814 Sunshine Drive, Austin,
Texas. Sunshine Drive is just north of the intersection of
Lamar and 45th Street.
The
Sustainable Food Center/
Austin Community Gardens
http://www.sustainablefoodcenter.org/
Sustainable Food Center works to create a food secure
community by improving access to local, healthy and
affordable food for children and adults in Central Texas.
Our community and youth gardens, Farmer's Market Initiative,
and cooking and nutrition education classes benefit an
estimated 20,000 Central Texans
annually.
Tapestry
Singers 
The Austin area's only non-auditioned women's chorus;
therefore no prepared auditions are necessary. We welcome
all singers regardless of ability to our weekly rehearsals
at any time during the year. Visitors are also welcome to
o
bserve rehearsals and the chorus. We rehearse on Monday
evenings from 7-9pm.
Texans
for Midwifery-Austin
Texans for Midwifery-Austin is a consumer-based group working to inform families, the medical community and decisionmakers about midwives and midwifery care. We promote The Midwives Model of Care as a valuable birth option that should be available wherever women choose to birth, both inside and outside the hospital.
TfM-Austin educates members of the state legislature, city council, and local hospital administrators about the value of The Midwives Model of Care, and how to make this kind of care accessible to all women. Our goals have been to remove barriers to midwifery care at local hospitals (which no longer offer midwifery care) and to protect access to out-of-hospital birth with midwives.
Texas
Public Interest Research Group 
An austin-based consumer and
environmental advocacy group,TexPIRG's mission is to deliver
persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that
protects our environment, encourages a fair, sustainable
economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government.
Third
Coast Activist Resource Center
The Third Coast Activist Resource Center was created to help
people in the Austin area in their efforts at sustainable
organizing. The Center's two main goals are:
- (1) to distribute educational
resources and organize community events about U.S. policy
around the world, and
- (2) to strengthen the local activist network that is part of a national and international movement for global justice.
The Center offers community education
about U.S. foreign policy -- speakers, films, cable access
programs, and classroom materials.
ThirdCoastActivist.org,
844-9362.
Thundering
Paws Animal Sanctuary
Thundering Paws is a
no-kill, non-profit animal sanctuary located near Austin in
Dripping Springs, Texas. We are home to an ever-changing
number of animals, mostly cats, a few dogs and rabbits. We
provide our residents shelter, food, water,
spaying/neutering, vaccinations, veterinary care, and a lot
of love and attention. All cats are tested for FIV and
feline leukemia. Due to the overpopulation of companion
animals in the United States, many often face unhappy fates.
Our aim is to stop this suffering altogether. This is a goal
of a lifetime, perhaps several lifetimes, but Thundering
Paws is committed to doing all we can about it
today! http://www.thunderingpaws.org/
The
Travis Audubon Society
Promotes the enjoyment, understanding,
and conservation of native birds and their habitats. Travis
Audubon's Education Committee is dedicated to providing
high-quality classes
geared toward environmental conservation, bird
identification, and bird-friendly habitat awareness for all
ages. Field
trips are regularly scheduled,
both within the city limits and farther afield.
www.travisaudubon.org
Treasure
City Thrift
"Treasure City utilizes a sustainable economic model to show solidarity and provide material resources to groups working for grassroots change."
At Treasure City, we believe that
thrift stores by definition should be thrifty. So we are. By
selling items in our store at lower prices than other local
retail and thrift shops, we are affordable to all, opening
our doors to a truly diverse set of folks. We are a
constantly evolving hybrid of many things: Affordable
Thrift Store, Junk & Curio
Bazaar, Community
& Events space,
Infoshop,
Non-Profit
Business, Reuse
Center, Really
Really Free Market,
25c
Sidewalk Sale, and an
experiment in Alternative Economics. We also provide space
for one of the Yellow
Bike Project's Community Bike Shops
and the mural on the side of our building, Mount
Blackmore, was painted by
local teens. You can read the
TC mission statement here. The
store is volunteer-run
and collectively organized. There are no bosses here! We are
supported by donations of time
(we love meeting new people) and goods
(we always need more
furniture, books and men's clothing) from the Austin
community. From the items you donate, we try to
reuse
and resell as much as
possible, and to further divert waste from the landfill, we
have a comprehensive
recycling program developed
with Ecology
Action.
512-524-2820 www.treasurecitythrift.org
UT
Conflict Resolution Center
Professional mediation,
facilitation, consultation, coaching and other conflict
resolution services free to the Austin community. Call
471-1950
email
check the website www.utpcr.org
Vegans Rock
Austin!
Austin vegan community organization/site. Ross
Abel
477-4912 Here to rock.
www.veganaustin.org
Vegetarian Network of
Austin
Resources, info, social contacts, fun. 896-5018
Yellow
Bike Project
Urban
free bike program.
Learn to build and repair your own bike. Bikes recycled.
Donations accepted. 457-9880
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