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Business owners, civic leaders and community members filled the Hill Country Youth Event Center on Feb. 26 for the Ninth Annual Hill Country Economic Summit, hosted by the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce. The event ran from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with lunch provided by Acapulco Restaurant, and covered everything from flood recovery finances […]

Following the Fourth of July floods, The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has worked to raise money to give and support the community in the biggest times of need in Kerrville history.  One of its biggest initiatives has been rebuilding efforts and housing people who lost their homes on the morning of the […]

It’s been 235 days since July 4, 2025, when devastating floods claimed 137 lives in the Texas Hill Country. We tend to remember tragedies on milestone dates – one year since the flood, five years since the storm – but people who lived through these moments need help every day. The Kerr County Flood Relief Fund was […]

HUNT, Texas – Gary Broach owns a home in the Bumble Bee Hills community just south of Hunt. Broach’s home is not on the floodplain, but on the Fourth of July last year, backflow from the Guadalupe River pushed a wall of water and debris into Bumble Bee Creek. The water and the debris flooded 24 […]

Community leaders unveiled findings Thursday from a comprehensive mental health needs assessment that reveals the July 4 flood will trigger a fourfold to fivefold increase in mental health needs across Kerr County over the coming years. The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country hosted the press conference at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church’s Tucker Hall […]

During a rain storm that rolled into Kerr County one night last week, Austin Dickson, who lives near Kerrville, began receiving calls from concerned neighbors that water was rising downtown. They feared the conditions could become a repeat of the July 4 floods. Dickson, who is also the CEO of the Community Foundation of the Texas […]

The July 4 floods in Kerr County could result in more than 6,000 new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among adults and about 2,000 cases of serious emotional disturbance in children without sustained access to mental health care, according to a new assessment released this week. The assessment was conducted by the Community Foundation of […]

KERRVILLE, Texas — A new mental health assessment released Thursday predicts that thousands of Kerr County residents could face long-term psychological effects following the July 4 flood, resulting in a $1 million funding commitment to expand access to mental health services in the area. The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country and the Meadows […]

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country announced Tuesday a $10 million grant to LiftFund to help small businesses recover from the catastrophic July 4 flood that devastated Kerr County. The grant represents the largest single investment in small business recovery since the disaster, which destroyed homes, killed residents and threatened the local economy. […]