ASTRA Monthly Events
Banana Bingo
The last Wednesday of each month, all members are given the opportunity to play Banana Bingo with the residents of Meadowood Assisted Living Center.
Books That Bond
Carroll Senior High School students with an off block 4th or 8th are able to read to elementary students in our district once a week.
Fitness Friends
Members at Carroll Senior High School with off blocks 4th or 8th can promote healthy physical activity by playing fun games with elementary students once a week.
"Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong. Be prepared every day to try and do some good."
Charities We Support
Altrusa Service Club
Altrusa International , Inc. is an international volunteer service organization of dynamic leaders dedicated to improving their communities through personal service. Altrusa is a builder of women and promotes the value of service to our youth. Altrusans believe it is not enough to be good; Altrusans must be good for something. Altrusa DFW sponsors CSHS & CHS ASTRA.
Center For Transforming Lives
The Center for Transforming Lives moves women, children and families from poverty to independence through housing stability, affordable high-quality child care and financial empowerment coaching.
Christmas Is For Children
CIFC prides itself on providing a complete holiday memory for children and families who otherwise would not have a holiday celebration. Our goal is to fulfill each child's Christmas wish list with something that they want, something that they need and something educational.
Travis Middle School Christmas
15 minutes away there are families homeless and children in need of Christmas cheer. How can you help TMS Christmas? Adopt a family, give a yearbook, donate food for the weekends, or monetary donations for school uniforms...
Contact: brooke@ashleytayloragency.com
Other
Daily Good Inspiring News
DailyGood leverages the internet to promote positive and uplifting news around the world to more than 100,000 subscribers through the daily and weekly newsletters. Readers receive a news story, an inspiring quote, and a suggested action that each person can take to make a difference in their own lives and the world around them.
Special Books By Special Kids
Special Books by Special Kids is a multi-media movement that spreads empathy, understanding and acceptance. SBSK is leading a global awareness to the joys, needs, and struggles of the special needs community.
World of Inspiration
World of Inspiration is filled with inspirational and motivational quotations on attitude and outlook, character, enthusiasm, friendship, happiness, hope and dreams, kindness, leadership, life, love and more… anytime you need inspiration just stop by and read their quote for the day.
Free Rice
FreeRice.com is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. Free Rice gives quiz questions where every correct answer donates 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.
Munhu
Munhu is an organization dedicated to helping children orphaned by AIDS in rural Zimbabwe. We provide direct support for the children’s education, and we also provide economic empowerment to people in the village communities where the children live.We believe in a world where every child should have an adequate education and live a healthy and dignified life.
Miss Sweetheart Special Needs Pageant
At 15 Malyn Bannister dreamed of creating a Special Needs Pageant. At 17 her dream came true. Miss Sweetheart Special Needs Pageant provides young ladies of all ages with Intellectual Disabilities with the full pageant experience.
Miracle League Southlake
Provide opportunities for children with disabilities to play baseball, regardless of their abilities, and promote community support and sponsorship of Miracle Leagues supporting the unique needs of players and their families.
Gatehouse
The Gatehouse mission is to offer women a practical hand up with life’s challenges. This community, which allows members to stay up to 2½ years depending on their individually tailored program, provides safe refuge and creates the environment for women and children in crisis to walk the path toward permanent change.
Walk for PKD
Walk for PKD is an annual event raising money for the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. PKD is one of the most common, life-threatening genetic diseases — strikes both adults and children. It often leads to the need for dialysis and a kidney transplant. It affects thousands in America and millions worldwide, who are in urgent need of treatments and a cure.
Contact: northtexaswalk@pkdcure.org
GRACE Feed Our Kids
Feed Our Kids mission is to provide lunches for area children during the summer weeks when they may otherwise not receive one. FOK fills these "hungry" weeks with sack lunches, milk, smiles and loving atmosphere.