“Strengthen the Good” is the nexus of a network of bloggers committed to raising awareness for small charities around the world. Every three weeks this space highlights a new “micro-charity”—a small, inspiring charity, one with a real face and where $1 makes a difference—and the bloggers in the network link to that post, sending traffic, and awareness, the charity’s way.

STG’s current featured charity is the Brent Woodall Foundation for Exceptional Children. Here’s the scoop from an article by Anne Stover:

The Brent Woodall Foundation for Exceptional Children, an organization giving hope to families of children with autism, was born out of Coppell resident Tracy Pierce Woodall’s desire to make a difference in the lives of autistic children — even as she was experiencing unimaginable tragedy in her own life.

The foundation is named in memory of her late husband, Brent Woodall, who died in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. She was just five weeks pregnant with their first child, a daughter named Pierce. Woodall and her husband had just begun developing the idea for a foundation that would provide free education to families of children with autism, a complex developmental disorder affecting the function of the brain in areas of cognition, social interaction and communication skills, when 9/11 took its toll.

“Things fell apart for a while,” Woodall said. However, after she moved to Coppell in 2002 to be close to her family, she revisited the idea and was determined to make the foundation happen. “I told my brother that I really wanted to do it, but I didn’t know how to do it,” Woodall said.

Go to the website to learn more about Tracy’s story or about the foundation’s mission. I like this charity for two reasons. Tracy Woodall seems like a lady who’s determined to bring something good out of the horrible evil that was 9/11, and the foundation is dedicated to working with families, specifically with parents of autistic children. Autistic children need relaionships with their parents, if at all possible. So I’m impressed.