Our Partners

Thank you for helping us toward our mission of seeing

“…every child reading by the end of 3rd grade.”

Churches

Businesses & Organizations

Education Connection could not be where it is today without the following key partnerships.

We thank each one of you wholeheartedly with our most sincere appreciation! Your generosity, whether financially and/or by providing volunteers, helps Education Connection be positioned to focus on addressing the systemic problem of 3rd grade illiteracy in the greater Austin area. Thank you for helping us toward our mission of seeing "...every child reading by the end of 3rd grade."

Church Partnerships:

Churches that are hosting a school and are providing a Literacy Partner Coordinator for that school

Abundant LIFE Church
Acts Church Leander
Agape Christian Ministries
Austin Baptist Church
Austin Christian Church
Austin Christian Fellowship
Bee Creek United Methodist Church
Brentwood Bible Church
Calvary Chapel Leander
Celebration Church
Central Baptist Church
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church
Christ Redeemer Fellowship Marble Falls
Church of the Nazarene Georgetown
Cityview Bible Church
Connect Church Liberty Hill
Cross Tracks United Methodist Church
Eastside Community Church
Family House Fellowship
Fellowship Church Liberty Hill
First Baptist Church Burnet
First Baptist Church Pflugerville
First United Methodist Church Burnet
First United Methodist Church Georgetown
First United Methodist Church Marble Falls
First United Methodist Church Round Rock
Good News United Methodist Church
Grace Bible Church
Great Hills Baptist Church
Greater Mt. Zion
Hill Country Bible Church Austin
Hill Country Bible Church Leander
Hill Country Fellowship Burnet
Hillcrest Church

Hope Bible Fellowship
Hope Presbyterian Round Rock
Hope Rock Church at Lake Travis
Hyde Park Baptist Church
Journey Bible Fellowship
Lake Travis United Methodist Church
Lakeway Church
Leander United Methodist Church
Life Church Leander
Life Marble Falls
Main Street Baptist
Man In Me
Marble Falls Church of Christ
Midtown Church
Mission Community Church
New Hope First Baptist Church
New Life Church Liberty Hill
New Lincoln Missionary Baptist Church
One Chapel Liberty Hill
Palm Valley Lutheran Church
Parkway Bible Church
Redeemer Round Rock
Restoration Covenant
River Rock Bible Church
Rockbridge
RockPile Church Marble Falls
Round Rock Christian Church
Round Rock Presbyterian
Spirit in the Hills Lutheran Church
St. James’ Episcopal Church
St. Thomas More
Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
Victory Baptist Church
Westside Communities

Business/Community Organization Partnerships:

Organizations that have volunteers reading and/or have given resources to Education Connection

3M Company
4-H Capital
Absolute Tax, Inc.
Accenture
AlertMedia
All Web Leads
Any Baby Can
Apple Leasing
Ascension Seton
Austin Bridge Builders Alliance
Austin Community College
Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN)
Austin ISD
Austin Partners in Education (APIE)
Burriss Management, Inc.
Capgemini
Cedar Park Chamber of Commerce
Celadon Properties, Inc.
Charles Schwab
Circuit of the Americas
CISCO
City of Round Rock
Clinical Pathology Laboratories
Collaboration-Unlimited
Covenant Management Systems (Austin Regional Clinics)
Cushman & Wakefield
Del Valle ISD
Delaware North Companies
Dell
Dell Children’s Council
Durio Communications
Emerson
ETS Lindgren
Farmers Insurance
Faske Lay & Co., LLP
First Texas Bank – Cedar Park
Focus Realty
Freedom 512 Real Estate Group
Frost Bank
Fuse Realty
Georgetown ISD
Google
Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors
Habitat for Humanity
HALFF
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital Round Rock
HEB
Heraeus Quartz America, LLC
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Hunter-Kelsey of Texas
IBM
Indeed.com
Internal Control Systems
Joe Bland Construction, L.P.
JP2 Court Williamson County

JP4 Court Travis County
Khoros, LLC
Kiwanis
Lago Vista ISD
Lake Travis ISD
Leander Chamber of Commerce
Leander ISD
Leander ISD Educational Excellence Foundation (LEEF)
Leander Police Department
Legalzoom
Liberty Hill ISD
Man In Me
Manor ISD
Marble Falls ISD
Mastercard
Microassist Technology
Microchip Corp
Miraval Austin Wellness Resort & Spa
National Oilwell Varco (NOV)
Oracle
Osano, Inc.
Ozbun Allen, LLC
Pflugerville ISD
Poly
Pondworks Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Pop Up Birthday
Pure Realty
Q2
Rash Chapman Schreiber Leaverton & Morrison, LLP
Realty Austin
Robert J Fischer Team – Realtors
Round Rock ISD
Round Rock Library
RRC Power & Energy, LLC
RRISD Partners In Education Foundation
Sacred Heart Community Clinic
Samaritan Health Clinic – Cedar Park
Samaritan Health Ministries
Samsung Austin Semiconductor
San Gabriel House Bed & Breakfast
Seedling
Seton NorthWest Hospital
Southside Bank
Southwest Airlines
Southwestern University
Squirrel Squared
Stallion Funding, LLC
Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
Texas Baptist Children’s Home
Tito’s Vodka
The University of Texas at Austin
The Wesleyan Independent Living
VMware
Volunteer Healthcare Clinic – Austin
Welcome Table, Inc.
Wells Fargo
Yardi Systems, Inc.

Elementary School Partnerships:

Austin ISD:
Allison
Barrington
Blanton
Campbell
Dawson
Hill
Lee
Norman-Sims
Pecan Springs
Pillow
Ridgetop
T.A. Brown
Williams
Zavala

Burnet CISD:
Bertram
RJ Richey
Shady Grove

Del Valle ISD:
Hillcrest
Popham

Georgetown ISD:
Carver
Cooper
Frost
McCoy
Purl
Village
Williams
Wolf Ranch

Lago Vista ISD:
Lago Vista

Lake Travis ISD:
Bee Cave
Lake Pointe
Lake Travis
Lakeway
Rough Hollow
Serene Hills
West Cypress Hills

Leander ISD:
Akin
Bagdad
Block House
Camacho
Cox
Cypress
Deer Creek
Faubion
Giddens
Grandview Hills
Jim Plain
Knowles
Larkspur
Laura Bush
Mason
Naumann
North
Parkside
Pleasant Hill
Reagan
Reed
River Place
River Ridge
Rutledge
Steiner Ranch
Tarvin
Westside
Whitestone
Winkley

Liberty Hill ISD:
Bill Burden
Liberty Hill
Noble
Rancho Sienna
Santa Rita

Manor ISD:
Lagos

Marble Falls ISD:
Colt
Highland Lakes
Marble Falls
Spicewood

Pflugerville ISD:
Caldwell
Copperfield
Wieland

Round Rock ISD:
Anderson Mill
Berkman
Bluebonnet
Brushy Creek
Cactus Ranch
Caldwell Heights
Callison
Caraway
Chandler Oaks
Double File Trail
Elsa England
Forest Creek
Forest North
Gattis
Great Oaks
Herrington
Johnson
Jollyville
Live Oak
Old Town
Pond Springs
Robertson
Spicewood
Terravista
Union Hill
Voigt
Wells Branch

Business Hosts

Businesses that are hosting a school and are providing a Literacy Partner Coordinator for that school

Chamber of Commerce Memberships

Education Connection Core Teams:

Austin ISD:
District Director – Amy Wilke
District Pastor – Jim Harrington, St. James’ Episcopal Church

Burnet ISD:
District Director – Amy Wilke
District Pastor – Michael Barnard, Hill Country Fellowship

Del Valle, Lago Vista, Manor, & Pflugerville ISDs:
District Director – Amy Wilke

Georgetown ISD:
District Director – Lynette Dahmer
District Pastor – Dave Roberts, Grace Bible Church

Lake Travis ISD:
District Director – Joan Mims
District Pastor – Paul Johnson, Church of the Cross
District Admin & Coach – Margie Neuenschwander

Leander ISD:
District Director – Vicki Larkin
District Pastor – Doug James, Hill County Bible Church Austin
Database Coordinator – Tina Ormand

Liberty Hill ISD:
District Director – Amy Wilke
District Pastor – Michele Lott, Cross Tracks United Methodist Church
District Pastor – Leighton Forshee, Connect Church

Marble Falls ISD:
District Director – Amy Wilke
District Pastor – Jackie English, Christ Redeemer Fellowship

Round Rock ISD:
District Director – Cathy Laws
District Pastor – Nancy Brieger, Restoration Covenant Church
District Pastor – David Lloyd, Central Baptist Church
Database Coordinator – Erik Wirtz
District Admin – Tom Laws