ABOUT US
Bastrop County Cares, a nonprofit organization, is a county-wide partnership working to develop comprehensive community initiatives by identifying community priorities, collecting and analyzing data, and bringing together collaborative partnerships that will result in community solutions. We identify large community issues that one organization cannot tackle on its own and build public will, advance policy, and mobilize and leverage funding.
We want to ensure that all individuals in Bastrop County can share in the social fabric of our community, access great educational programs, be economically stable, and to live healthy full lives in our wonderful Bastrop County community.
OUR MISSION
Bastrop County Cares brings people together to collaborate around large community challenges that no one organization can solve on its own to improve the conditions where our neighbors live, work, pray and play.
VALUES
Bastrop County Cares achieves its mission through a variety of community partnerships and coalitions that bring together individuals and public, private, faith-based, and nonprofit organizations and institutions committed to creating the best Bastrop County. Our work must embody our core values of equity, inclusion, respect, trust, courage, and kindness.
We connect, empower, collaborate, support, advocate and act together to build the best Bastrop County.
Our Board of Directors
Catherine Pressler
Co-chair
Retired (community volunteer)
Sherry Armstrong
Co-chair
Retired (community volunteer)
April Daniels: Executive Director, Smithville Chamber of Commerce
Betty Dunkerley (treasurer): Retired (community volunteer)
Jill Strube: Grants Administrator, City of Smithville
Ken Kesselus: Retired (community volunteer)
Leanne Pacatte: Project Administrator, Self-Employed
Linda Wilson: Retired (community volunteer)
Nancy Scott: Retired (community volunteer)
Lyndsey Schroeder (secretary): Executive Assistant to Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape
Willie Culberson: Retired (community volunteer)
(updated 7/14/20)