PHILANTHROPY ADVOCATES

Philanthropy Advocates, a collaboration with Educate Texas at Communities Foundation of Texas, is a diverse funders' collaborative of over 55 private, corporate, and community foundations and United Ways. Formerly called the Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium (TEGAC), we were created in 2012 to unify grantmakers around a multi-year effort to build support for and improvement in public and higher education in Texas in response to the historic cuts made to public education by the Texas legislature during the 2011 session. In 2019, we joined forces with Educate Texas, a trusted change agent in education, to better advocate together on behalf of our state's 7 million students... Philanthropy Advocates is a statewide funder's collaborative that empowers philanthropy to invest and engage in public and higher education policy and advocacy. We work to protect, promote, and improve public and higher education so that all Texas students can achieve their educational goals from..

Primary location: Austin United States