The Austin Biennial Jack and Jill Beautillion Ball was established in 1972 as a collaborative effort with the community to highlight young Black males in the community. The Beautillion’s underlying focus is education and continuous learning. The Beautillion season includes a series of leadership-oriented, professional, and mental wellness workshops, culminating in a black tie gala, during which the future leaders are presented to the Austin community.

Beaux cohorts are comprised of outstanding young men chosen from the Greater Austin community and Austin Jack & Jill membership. These young men have excelled as leaders in their communities and among their peers. Since its inception, the Austin Chapter of Jack & Jill of America, Inc. has presented more than five hundred young African American men to the Austin community who have gone on to lead successful lives as attorneys, doctors, politicians, educators, athletes, fathers, and more.

Local organizations and businesses sponsor Beaux and purchase souvenir journal advertisements and tickets to the formal dinner and presentation. In-kind contributions and sponsorships are also leveraged to enhance the Beautillion experience. Community professionals invest their time and expertise by facilitating workshops, hosting image seminars, and conducting career assessment and development sessions with each participant. Professional dress-for-success workshops, ballroom dancing, and etiquette sessions are also a part of the training provided to enhance these well-rounded, polished young men. We believe this exposure inspires each young man to focus on college as a means to realizing his own dreams and also to plant the seed of enduring service to their communities through Leadership and Community Engagement.

In addition to providing scholarships for participating Beaux, the Austin Chapter of Jack and Jill has gifted the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Huston-Tillotson University, George Washington Carver Library & Museum, East Communities YMCA, Dorothy Madison Beau Fund, the Jack & Jill Foundation, and other deserving organizations with proceeds from this event.