Austin is a large city - the 16th largest in the country, in fact. It's too large to make implementing Transition on a city-wide level feasable. We're using two strategies to structure our outreach to Austin - geographically-oriented and task-oriented.
As far as geography is concerned, we're using the Austin Neighborhoods Council division of Austin into 10 "sectors," as shown in the map to the right. Each sector is divided into neighborhoods; if you take the link above to the ANC site and click on the "Neighborhood Associations" link, you'll see the map to the right, and below that a list of the neighborhood associations. We're working on outreach to some of those, as well as to some neighborhood associations that aren't under ANC.
Our other organizational outreach is to make connections with other groups in Austin that are doing "Transition-like" activities - ecological activist groups, community gardens, sustainability initiatives, faith communities, and the like. You can find many of those on our Austin Non-Profit Resources page.
Coordinating all this is the Transition Austin Hub. The Hub manages the centralized functions - long-term planning, communication and coordination among the groups working on Transition in their sectors and neighborhoods; Internet presence (including this web site); public relations (presentations, training, press liaison, etc.); working with the City of Austin (for example, working to ensure that its new 30-year plan includes real sustainability); and finances (IRS status, donations, expenditures, etc.).
The Hub meets on the second Thursday of each month. For details, including time and directions, see the listing for the Hub meeting in the right column of the home page.
Transition Austin fully supports the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN General Assembly resolution 217 A(III) of 10 December 1948). That is, we completely reject discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity in all of our programs and efforts.