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Media Contact: Layla Fry 512-583-2509 lfry@swkey.org; Eliana Maruri, 512-583-2541, emaruri@swkey.org

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July/August 2008 Newsletter

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Press Releases

07.22.08	Southwest Key receives $102,000 grant from Impact Austin to start East Austin Performing Arts Program (Click here for Press Release)
07.15.08	Southwest Key is partnering with the IBM World Community Grid. For more information, Click Here
06.27.08	Southwest Key Postpones Decision to Open 9th Grade Charter School due to time constraints (Click here for Press Release)
06.27.08	College Connection students lead summer academic enrichment program for younger kids. Program begins Monday, June 30th (Click here for Press Release and Click here for Media Advisory)
06.06.08	City Council Place 4 Candidates Address the Johnston/Govalle Community of East Austin in Lunchtime Q&A in Time for Run-Off Election (Media Advisory PDF) (Flyer PDF)
06.03.08	LULAC Presents Southwest Key Founder/CEO and Board Member with Social Justice Award (Press Release PDF) (Resolution PDF)
05.30.08	FAQs Series: Southwest Key, Johnston, and Education in East Austin (PDF)
05.23.08	Southwest Key's May 2008 E-Newsletter Available Online (PDF)
05.15.08	East Austin VOTA! Campaign Mobilizes Community, Tops Off with Candidate Forum (PDF)
05.01.08	Southwest Key Boys & Girls Club Opens Officially at the East Austin Community Center (PDF)
04.21.08	Southwest Key Grand Opening Draws Thousands to East Austin (PDF)
02.26.08	Southwest Key Launches East Austin VOTA! Campaign (PDF)
02.25.08	State Farm^®Youth Advisory Board Grants Southwest Key Programs $79,975 to Promote Teen Driver Safety Among Austin Teens (PDF)
01.24.08	LULAC Support Southwest Key’s Work with Immigrant Children (PDF)
01.11.08	Southwest Key Brings $700,000 In Federal Funds To East Austin to Create 71 Jobs (PDF)

Video Clips & PSAs

News 8 Austin - 06/17/08 Southwest Key aims to fill void left at Johnston High School Read Story / Watch Video

Fox 7 News Austin - 04/29/08 City Council candidates speak in East Austin Click Here to View Story

Fox 7 News Austin - 04/29/08

City Council candidates speak in East Austin

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CBS 42 KEYE Austin - 04/29/08

City Council candidates respond to East Austinites' concerns

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KVUE News Austin - 04/29/08

City Council race heats up

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News 8 Austin - 04/19/08

East Austin gets new youth community center

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KXAN Austin with Jim Swift - 04/15/08

East Austin nonprofit "goes for broke"

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News 8 Austin - 04/10/08

Local non-profit sets eyes on Community Center opening

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News 8 Austin - 1/26/08

LULAC supports Southwest Key

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News 8 Austin - 10/25/07

Southwest Key Ready to Open

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News 8 Austin - 8/16/07

Weather holds up East Austin project

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News 8 Austin - 8/12/07

Southwest Key plans to help at-risk youth

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News 8 Austin - 2/2/07

Nonprofit wants to build new school in East Austin

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News 8 Austin - 1/10/07

Proposed conversion of TYC units could effect Travis County

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Southwest Key Program Public Service Announcement (January 2007): "Changing Lives by Building Stronger Communities"

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Southwest Key Program Public Service Announcement (January 2007):
"Doing Good"

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Southwest Key Program Public Service Announcement: "The Surgeon"

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News 8 Austin- Five Part Series on Juvenile Justice (5-2006)

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Juvenile Justice: Inside Southwest Key

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News 8 Austin - 3-19-2006

East Austin Community Development Project Story

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KVUE News - 3-17-2006 (6:00 p.m.)

East Austin Community Development Project

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News Clippings

06.05.08	East Austin nonprofit offers to run Johnston - KXAN Austin News (KXAN.com)
07.21.07	An in-between place: Southwest Key keeps teen migrants afloat between ‘here’ and ‘there’ - Brownsville Herald
02.05.07	Project Plans Needed East Austin School Article on Southwest Key’s proposed College Prep Middle School in East Austin - The Daily Texan
02.02.07	Nonprofit wants to build new school in East Austin Article on Southwest Key’s proposed College Prep Middle School in East Austin - New 8 Austin
12.31.06	Community comes together to clean up graffiti - The Brownsville Herald
12.17.06	2 Honduran, Guatemalan youths are among lucky few - Arizona Daily Star
06.20.06	Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, Angelina Jolie: Her Mission and Motherhood Interview with Angelina Jolie about unaccompanied minors and her visit to Southwest Key - Anderson Cooper 360
03.31.06-04.06.06	Group Plans East Austin Campus - Austin Business Journal
02.2006	America ’s Young Detainees - APF Reporter
09.01.05	Communities Helping Kids: Why diversion, outreach, and counseling programs serve troubled children -- and society -- better than prisons - The American Prospect
02.03.05	Cover Story: Caution Article on Southwest Key’s Unaccompanied Minors Shelter Program - San Diego Reader
04.29.04	Goodwill Ambassador Jolie visits detained children in Arizona UNHCR Online