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Cooling Center Summer 2025


Trinity Center is once again stepping up to serve as a Cooling Center this summer—offering life-saving relief from the dangerous Texas heat to our unhoused neighbors.


Starting on June 30th, our extended hours will be 

Monday through Thursday, from 1:00–7:00 p.m.



Services that will be provided: Daily showers, meals, cooling and hygiene items, bus passes, mail checks, ID assistance, MAP assistance, and more.


WE NEED YOU TODAY! We’re counting on our community of supporters more than ever this year so here are the many meaningful ways to get involved:



  1. Donate men’s clothing:


Daily showers are one of the most cherished services during our Cooling Center hours. Each day, 25 to 30 neighbors will have the chance to enjoy a refreshing, private shower. While we’re grateful to have shower facilities available, we face an ongoing challenge: providing clean men's underwear and shorts or pants for guests to change into after their shower. 

Help us elevate this service! You can purchase underwear through our Amazon Wishlist, donate shorts, pants, and shoes, or buy them on your own (please note, we only accept new underwear), and drop them off at our location. 

Drop off info: 

🔹 At Trinity Center: Monday to Thursday, from 9 AM to 6 PM. Fridays only until 1 PM.

🔹 At St. David's Church front desk: Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM, or Sunday, 9 AM to 12 PM.


  1. Volunteer your time


  1. Sponsor a meal: We want to ensure a daily afternoon meal that is nutritious and balanced. Whether a home-cooked dish, store-bought meals, or simple ingredients we can put together here, any type of contribution is deeply appreciated. There are many options to sponsor a meal.



  1. Provide cooling supplies: Everything we need is on our Amazon Wishlist—or you can shop for the items yourself and drop them off.



Want to get creative? Gather your friends and family to put together Cooling Care Kits for our neighbors. It’s a fun, meaningful way to get your community involved (kids too!) and spread some love in the hottest time of the year. 🫶


  1. A financial gift: Contribute funds for Cooling Center operations!



  1. And most importantly: spread the word! Share this with your friends, family, coworkers—anyone who might be moved to help.




 
 
 

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Trinity Center Austin

Being a small organization allows us to offer a personal, familiar touch as we work with our neighbors each day. We have a staff of only six dedicated people, and we rely on people like you who commit to a three-hour volunteer shift weekly. We greet each other as neighbors instead of as providers and clients. We treat our neighbors with dignity and respect. In fact, we feel very proud of the manner in which our staff and volunteers “lead by acceptance,” resulting in neighbors who feel acknowledged and understood, have a sense of ownership of Trinity Center, and consider it their community center. Neighbors rely on us when they have nowhere else to go. As one of our neighbors stated in an August 2009 survey, “Trinity Center has been an anchor in a time of storm."

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