There are several ways to support the telethon:

• Donate online through www.austincommunityfoundation.org (Donate in advance and be eligible to attend the private HAAM Day Wrap Party and the ME studios!)
• Make a pledge by telephone on HAAM Day by dialing 512-608-4060
• Donate in person on HAAM Day with our sponsorship businesses – drop your donation and business card into the HAAM Donation Box to be eligible for the drawing!
  
  Thundercloud Donation Box locations:
  1. 2308 Lake Austin
  2. Bee Caves Rd at Walsh Tarleton
  3. Slaughter at Manchaca
  4. 620 and 2222
  5. 183 at Lake Creek Pkwy
  6. Round Rock, I-35 and 79
  7. Lakeway...620 at Lomans Crossing
  8. 201 E. Riverside
  9. 2801 S. Lamar
  

For information on Health Alliance of Austin Musicians and HAAM Day, visit www.myhaam.org

For a donation of $25 or more you could win:

• A pair of VIP Passes to the Big State Festival in College Station with Willie, Lyle, Tim McGraw, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. courtesy of C3 Presents
• Free admission to Antone’s for you and a guest for a year
• A pair of 2008 SXSW Music Badges
• A one night stay at Vintage Villas.
• Gift certificates to Magnolia Cafe, Daily Grill, Trudy's or South Congress Cafe'.

PARTICIPATING SPONSORS AND BUSINESSES:

Presenting Sponsor: Whole Foods Market

Underwriters: Sony Online Entertainment Austin, Time Warner Cable-Central Texas and Charity Partners of Austin; and partners Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa, GSD&M’s Idea City, Gibson Musical Instruments, Wal-Mart, ME Television, and Eli Lilly and Company.

Supporting sponsors: HPI, Amli on Second, Cencor Urban, Thundercloud Subs (23 outlets), KVET, Waterloo Records & Video, Waterloo Ice House (all locations), Austin Java, Uncle Billy’s, Little Woodrow’s, Frost Bank, and Delaware North Companies, which operates 19 venues at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport: The Salt Lick Bar-B-Q and Taco Bar, Mangia Pizza, Matt’s El Rancho, Schlotzsky’s Deli, Austin Java Airport Café and Coffee House, Highland Lakes Bar (The Main Stage), Earl Campbell’s Sports Bar, Lefty’s on 6th Street Bar and Grille, The Longhorns Store, The Austin Chronicle News, Book People, Austin City Limits, Waterloo Records & Video, Gadgets To Go, Texas Wild Flower and Bluebonnets, Texas Sports Unlimited, Everything Texas, Li’l Texans, and Down on 6th Street.

Others are The Continental Club, Sweetish Hill Bakery, Book People, Therapy, Antone’s, Spark’s Cards & Gifts, Ruby’s BBQ, Austin Visitors Center, Longhorn Collision Center, Strait Music Company, Guero’s Taco Bar, Threadgill’s World Headquarters, Patsy’s Cowgirl Café, Hotel San José, Jo’s Coffee Shop, By George, Zanzibar, Mecca Gym and Spa, Blue Star Cafeteria, Mariposas Spanish School, Artz Rib House, Sam’s Town Point, Allandale Painters Supply, Birds Barbershop, Iguana Grill, Room 710, Wyndham Garden Hotel, Flipnotics Coffeespace Café, El Interior, Gallery Lombardi, Las Manitas, Ranch 616, Bess, Café Josie, Cheapo Disc, Eclectic, El Sol Y La Luna, Mars, Stubb’s BBQ, Shoal Creek Saloon, Irie Bean Coffee Bar, BD Riley’s, Magnolia Café, Lost in Austin Productions, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Daily Grill, Blind Pig, Shakespeare’s, Evangeline Café, The Belmont, Red Fez, Cirrus Logic, Hill’s Café, Antone’s Record Shop, and The Melting Pot.