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)
Vacant
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)