Partners

FBM is made possible by Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (ASMCA), Farmshare Austin, Brighter Bites, and UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. Together, we deliver nutritious food to our FBM families. Moms in this program get healthy meals and fresh food delivered weekly for 8 weeks after having a baby. Our partners are key in providing this support directly to your homes.

The Ascension Texas Foundations encompasses Dell Children’s Foundation, Ascension Providence Foundation, Ascension Seton Foundation, Ascension Seton Hays Foundation, and Ascension Seton Williamson Foundation. These five foundations support 15 Ascension Texas hospital campuses throughout Central Texas. While we collaborate across Foundations, all funds raised for a Foundation’s community remain within that community.

With constant changes in healthcare and reimbursement models, our hospitals, caregivers and communities rely now, more than ever, on the donors who sustain the expansion of our Mission to care for all, especially persons most in need. As the safety net hospital for adults and children in Central Texas, Ascension Seton, Ascension Providence and Dell Children’s serve our patients regardless of their ability to pay.

Philanthropy and investment from our community allow Ascension Texas Foundations to serve those most in need while also offering the best care to all our patients.

Farmshare Austin is a nonprofit that wants to grow a healthy and fair local food system. They help you get healthy food and train new farmers. Their 10-acre organic farm in Eastern Travis County teaches adults how to start careers in farming. Most of the farm’s produce goes to helping people who need affordable, healthy food.

The Central Texas Food Bank (CTFB) is the leading hunger-relief nonprofit in Central Texas, working to provide immediate and equitable access to nutritious food for individuals throughout its 21-county service area. Through a combination of direct service programs and a network of nearly 250 nonprofit community partners, CTFB supports over 610,000 food insecure individuals annually. As part of its commitment to improving health outcomes, CTFB leads innovative Food is Medicine initiatives—including medically tailored meals, produce prescriptions, and nutrition education—that integrate healthy food access into health care delivery. These efforts strengthen cross-sector partnerships and help ensure that food-insecure Central Texans can better manage their health and well-being

The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin is an integral part of UTHealth Houston, which is a comprehensive academic health university in Texas, uniting schools of public health, dentistry, medicine, nursing, biomedical sciences, and biomedical informatics.

Brighter Bites is the nonprofit that delivers fruits and vegetables directly into families’ hands. We teach families how to use the produce and watch their behavior change. We make it fun. We make it free. And we make it happen via a simple, three-part formula: Produce Distribution + Nutrition Education + Fun Food Experience.

Since 2012, Brighter Bites has provided over 65 million pounds of produce and millions of nutrition education materials to more than one million individuals (including teachers) in 13 cities across the country.