San Antonio Express-News

Vote for your favorite non-profit* to help them win $100K from Ancira Auto Group!

The Top five nominated companies per category (15 total) have moved onto the voting round, where amazing local non-profits from the San Antonio and South Texas area will win $100K from the Ancira Gives Back program.

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San Antonio Food Bank

We provide food and resources to 90,000 people each week. Our shelves are alarmingly low as we approach summer, our highest time of need. We are currently down 4million pounds of food. Securing $100,000 would provide an incredible 1million pounds of food and give us a wave of support we need as we enter our busiest season. Visit us at https://safoodbank.org

Soldiers’ Angels

Soldiers’ Angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families. From sending care packages to deployed, to providing food assistance to low-income veterans, to providing support to military families separated by deployment, our vision is to ensure No Soldier Goes Unloved.

Visit us at https://adltexas.org

Tracy’s Paws Rescue

“Tracy’s Paws Rescue-the solution to animal overpopula­tion, where suffering ends and healing begins, with a full spay/neuter clinic, shelter, and adoptions facilitati­ons. And soon, a center for children to learn how animals can teach them to have compassion for all living creatures-where animals and children can heal together.”

Visit us at www.tracyspaws Rescue.org three

Children’s Associatio­n for Maximum Potential

CAMP strengthen­s and inspires individual­s with special needs – and those who care for them – through Recreation, Respite, and Education. Year-round, CAMP provides recreation­al opportunit­ies for individual­s with special needs as well as their siblings; respite for family members; leadership developmen­t for high-school students/young adults; and handson educationa­l experience­s for healthcare profession­als.

Visit us at https://campcamp.org

Child Advocate San Antonio (CASA)

Child Advocates San Antonio changes the lives of children in foster care who have suffered from abuse and/or neglect throughout Bexar County by recruiting, developing and leading community volunteers to become Court Appointed Special Advocates. All training provided. Find out how you can get involved at casa-satx.org.

Diamond Dachshund Rescue of Texas

“DDRTX rescues and rehabilita­tes dachshunds who have been abandoned or abused.

Many of these dogs require advanced veterinary care and it is our volunteers and donors who have enabled DDRTX to save so many lives.

Our goal is to provide families with the companions­hip and love of a special pet.”

Visit us at https://www.ddrtx.org

LARGE Haven for Hope

Haven for Hope offers a place of hope and new beginnings by providing, coordinati­ng, and delivering an efficient system of care for people experienci­ng homelessne­ss in San Antonio. As San Antonio’s largest shelter, Haven for Hope works with more than 180 partners to help those experienci­ng homelessne­ss transform their lives.

Visit us at https://www.havenforho­pe.org

Arms of Hope

Arms of Hope offers residentia­l and outreach programs for children and single-mothers who are fleeing poverty, homelessne­ss, abuse, neglect, and traffickin­g. In the San Antonio area, we provide residentia­l services for 150 children and 65 single-mothers while assisting more than 738 individual­s annually in our San Antonio Family Outreach Center.

Visit us at https://armsofhope.org

MEDIUM Guadalupe County Children’s Advocacy Center

The Guadalupe County Children’s Advocacy Center serves the most vulnerable in our community-children who have been sexually or physically abused. Our mission is to advocate for and provide services to abused children and their families in the investigat­ion, prosecutio­n, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to children by coordinati­ng a multidisci­plinary approach.

Vist us at https://gccac.net

SMALL The Mitchell Chang Foundation

The Mitchell Chang Foundation was formed after three-year-old Mitchell Chang passed away from drowning at his swim school. They are building a half-acre piratethem­ed inclusive playground for the San Antonio parks system. Grant funding would provide for either shade cover or an inclusive 2-bay zip-track, subject to community input.

Visit us at https://www. themitchel­lchangfoun­dation.org

Ronald Mcdonald House

“Ronald Mcdonald House of San Antonio provides a home away from home for families with children receiving critical medical services in San Antonio. We strive to take away every stress a family may be going through; housing, food, transporta­tion, so that families can stay focused on what matters most-their child’s health.” Visit us at https://rmhcsanant­onio.org

Assistance League of San Antonio

Supporting disadvanta­ged children by providing for basic needs has been our mission for 38 years. Assistance League® of San Antonio supports over 14,000 children annually through Operation School Bell® and Togs For Tots programs and 21,000 other residents with programs that meet these individual­s at their point of need. Visit us at www.assistance­league.org/ san-antonio

San Antonio Food Bank

Establishe­d in 1934, the Animal Defense League of Texas rescued over 7,000 cats and dogs in 2021! Care is provided in a safe, live release facility until pets are matched with their forever families. Through community education and empowermen­t, ADL advocates for truly responsibl­e pet ownership. Visit us at www.adltexas.org.

Children’s Bereavemen­t Center of South Texas

The Children’s Bereavemen­t Center of South Texas is non-profit dedicated to fostering hope and healing to children and their families after experienci­ng unimaginab­le loss. By offering peer support groups, individual counseling, and access to grief camps at no cost, we are a beacon hope during the darkest time for families.

Visit us at https://cbcst.org/

San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition

Would you like to see fewer cats roaming our streets? Please vote for SAFCC as that’s our mission! We rescue young kittens and friendly strays for adoption and help the public trap and fix cats, so they don’t reproduce. We provide free training, trap loans, and low cost spay/neuter.

Visit us at https://sanantonio­feralcats.org

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