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Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

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Mitscoots Outfitters: Meet The Local Company Providing for the Homeless

May 2, 2018

In 2012, UT alumni Tim and Agata Scott launched “Mitscoots Outfitters”, a company designed with the business model of get, give and employ.

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Student Organization Donates Over 3,000 Feminine Hygiene Products

April 17, 2018

From March 26 through April 6, Students for Planned Parenthood (SPP) at UT held a menstrual, feminine and period product drive.

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A Community Made in the Studio: How One Artist Grew from Art From the Streets

August 31, 2016

Art From the Streets, or AFTS, is a nonprofit organization that gives homeless artists a place to work and a way to sell their art.

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Everything is Smaller in Texas? Tiny homes Fight Against Chronic Homelessness

October 5, 2014

The 27 acres of land just east of U.S. Route 183 look just like any other patch of open land in Texas. The grass is a faded green and overgrown with shrubbery, patches of moss cling to the trees, and only birds and insects call this place home. The thousands of drivers who pass by it everyday easily overlook it. But, when Nate Schleueter and the rest of the Mobile Loaves & Fishes team look into this field, they see a vision, one that will revolutionize how communities deal with chronic homelessness.