By Rob Kepple
TDCAF Executive Director in Austin
Your Foundation Board of Trustees is proud to announce the $25 for 2025 Annual Campaign! This is an opportunity for everyone to join together and support our profession with one goal: So the State is always ready.
Being able to nimbly jump in and support a project when other funding is not immediately available is a strength of the Foundation. Some recent examples of the Foundation coming through in times of need:
• When last-minute construction at a host hotel disrupted a TDCAA conference, the Foundation quickly came to the rescue, giving the additional funding needed to move the conference to a new (and even better) venue.
• The Foundation helped pay for filming and production for the mandatory online Brady course that every prosecutor must regularly take.
• With no other funds available, the Foundation provided each attendee of the January 2025 Prosecutor Trial Skills Course with a copy of TDCAA’s Family Violence Manual.
As you know, the Foundation also continues to pay for core TDCAA training. In 2025 and 2026, we plan to support TDCAA in the following ways:
• funding production of a two-hour online ethics course; filming happened in mid-August,
• providing ongoing financial support for the critical work of TDCAA’s Domestic Violence Resource Prosecutor position,
• paying for the travel and hotel costs for attendees and speakers at the Advanced Trial Advocacy Course in Waco,
• funding the travel, hotel, food, and staffing costs for those who attend our Train the Trainer course, and
• keeping the registration cost low for attendees at our Prosecutor Management Institute (PMI) training by subsidizing the course materials, speaker fees, and testing expenses.
As you can see, the Foundation contributes greatly to many of TDCAA’s initiatives. But we can’t do it alone—your continued support is vital to our mission and the profession.
If every member donated $25 this year, the Annual Campaign would raise over $100,000! Your $25 would go a long way toward supporting prosecutors across the state.
Please take a minute today to click on the QR code below and make your tax-deductible gift of just $25 to the $25 for 2025 Annual Campaign. Thank you for supporting our membership and for your public service!
