Baylor Family Practice Residency Program at Garland
Amount: $10,000
Grant Proposal:
Request funds for uninsured pregnant and parenting teen women and their
children for laboratory costs and medications (including contraception).
Most of their patients (80%) have Medicaid funding that terminates six
weeks after delivery. Another 10% are undocumented and therefore do not
qualify for Medicaid or other funding resources.
Purpose of Agency:
To improve healthcare system access to pregnant and parenting adolescent
women and their children which will result in improved retention and attendance
in school and improved pregnancy outcomes.
Community Dental Health Programs
Amount: $20,000
Grant Proposal:
We are requesting funds to provide critically needed dental care to 30
women who will be referred from Jacob's Ladder. These women will have
completed their job training and will need dental care to become fully
marketable as they apply for jobs.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide routine dental care for low-income children and limited
dental care for adults and to conduct dental educational programs primarily
in schools and nutrition centers.
Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
Amount: $10,000
Grant Proposal:
Funds are being requested to support DCAC's Therapy Program. Of the 620
clients receiving therapy at DCAC, 82% are girls. The majority of therapy
clients are Hispanic, under the age of twelve and are victims of sexual
abuse. The DCAC Therapy Program employs seven therapists (three bilingual),
specially trained in treating child abuse victims and their families.
Purpose of Agency:
To break the cycle of child abuse through collaborative intervention in
a child-sensitive environment.
Dallas Concilio of Hispanic Service Organization
Amount: $20,000 ($5,000 of grant from Dallas Morning
News Luncheon Sponsorship)
Grant Proposal:
The PASM (Psyched about Science and Math) program encourages Hispanic
girls to stay in school and strive towards a career in science, math or
health. This is accomplished through a one-day workshop facilitated by
Hispanic female professionals who discuss their careers and also speak
about how they have overcome academic and personal hardships. Following
the workshop, girls attend 3 field trips to organizations where they are
further exposed to career in math, health and science.
Purpose of Agency:
To advocate and enhance the quality of life for Hispanics through community
partnerships.
Denton Family Resource Center
Amount: $11,420 ($5000 of grant from Blockbuster Luncheon Sponsorship)
Grant Proposal:
Hispanic families in Denton County are underserved in accessing family
life education programs, community resources, and translation assistance
in completing forms for employment, school, medical and other areas. A
bilingual program assistant is needed to provide customer service to Hispanic
persons registering for DFRC family life education programs, provide information
& referrals services, and translate during child car safety seat instruction.
Purpose of Agency:
To strengthen and support families across the life span.
Family Gateway
Amount: $20,000
Grant Proposal:
Gateway to Jobs screens applicants, assesses skills, and offers 20 hours
of Job-readiness training followed by 40 hours of on-the-job internship.
The program teaches participants the work ethics, habits, and behaviors
necessary to keep a job. It provides employers with applicants who not
only understand the standards of performance required to earn a paycheck,
but who also have experience in the field and have proven themselves reliable
employees.
Purpose of Agency:
Provides comprehensive services to children whose families are in crisis:
counseling, temporary housing, job search and placement assistance, transitional
living apartments and community transition services. The program offers
training and counseling that are intended to restore dignity, tability
and self -sufficiency to the family unit. All programs and environments
are designed to create an atmosphere of emotional, social and economic
development.
Genesis Women’s Shelter
Amount: $20,000 ($10,000 from First Preston Fund)
Grant Proposal:
To help ensure the continuation of existing programs which are a life-saving
response to the needs of battered women and children. Genesis Women's
Shelter operates its emergency housing program in a 100 year-old building
that began life as a fire house. Parts of the infrastructure are literally
antique. Our wiring, plumbing and wooden infrastructure are decades old.
Our fire suppression system and security system are simply not adequate.
The continuation of all services and programs at Genesis is dependent
on the renovation of our Shelter. Without updating our 100 year old building,
the work of Genesis Shelter cannot continue.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide a safe haven to battered women and their children and to reduce
the occurrence of hysical violence against women and children in the greater
Dallas area.
Girls Incorporated of Metropolitan Dallas
Amount: $10,000
($5,000 from American Express Luncheon Sponsorship $2,500 Laura G. Blocker,
M. D. AdvisedFund; $2,500 Sherry Adair Advised Fund)
Grant Proposal:
The goal of Girls Inc. Economic Literacy Program is to teach financial
skills and concepts to girls ages 6-18 so they can be better prepared
for economic independence and career readiness upon completing high school.
Purpose of Agency:
To encourage girls to discover their own identity, develop their potential
and grow in their sense of esponsibility to self, family and community.
It provides female-focused programs that empower girls to take charge
of their lives.
Imagine the Impossible Learning and Training Dance Center
Amount: $9,475 Total Grant $9,000 Pat Rosenthal Advised
Fund $ 475 General Fall
Grant Proposal:
Imagine will educate 50 students in The Discipline of Classical Ballet
Training; removing barriers for young girls by enhancing early post childhood
development. The program expands choices and opportunities by providing
early intervention and effectively impacting underserved children through
fine arts education.
Purpose of Agency:
To educate children in the fine arts, through the development of technical proficiencies and aesthetic appreciation within classical dance.
Oak Cliff Center for Community Studies
Amount: $19,125
Grant Proposal:
Enhance the educational achievement of all Latinas at every level of education,
especially higher education, through the support of the Advancing Latinas
to Higher Education program. This is a modest house in a residential neighborhood
in Oak Cliff that serves as a classroom, mentoring center, research facility,
office, and home of the director. The field house provides a place or
meeting with students and families in an informal setting in their own
neighborhood to address barriers to education in a manner acceptable to
the community involved.
Purpose of Agency:
To improve the level of education of all students in the greater Dallas
area by encouraging and assisting them in pursuit of their education through
research training, mentoring, and intervention.
The Promise House
Amount: $20,000
Grant Proposal:
Wesley Inn is a group home for homeless pregnant and parenting teens and
their children. The program addresses the epidemic of teen pregnancy in
our community by enabling residents to obtain and reside in permanent
housing; increasing their skills and income, and helping them achieve
greater self-determination. Promise House will use the $20,000 from Dallas
Women's Foundation to provide childcare workers for children of residents
during hours when day care is not available, food purchased in bulk from
the North Texas Food Bank, bus passes so that residents may be transported
to school and/or work, and recreational activities during which residents
my build relationships with their children and each other.
Purpose of Agency:
To offer hope to youth and families in crisis through crisis intervention,
emergency shelter, transitional living, education, counseling, street
outreach, and advocacy.
New Beginning Center
Amount: $20,000
Grant Proposal:
For operating expenses of this domestic violence agency located in Garland,
Texas and providing services to residents of Dallas County. To provide
80% of Social Workers salary.
Purpose of Agency:
To foster an environment of safety, support, and respect for families
affected by domestic violence through crisis intervention, counseling,
shelter, education, advocacy and diverse community partnerships.
Resource Center of Dallas
Amount: $19,980
Grant Proposal:
The X³ (Diversity, Lesbian, Women) Health Project will address the
STD risk-taking behavior among LBT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender women
in Dallas by increasing STD information to LBT women, increasing social
networks that support STD risk reduction, and increasing access of sexual
health care.
Purpose of Agency:
To create awareness foster understanding, and fulfill the needs of the
gay and lesbian community through education, health, and social programs
that are available to all people.
Turning Point Rape Crisis Center
Amount: $20,000
Grant Proposal:
For assistance with operational expenses, specifically rent/utilities.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide counseling, education and advocacy to those impacted by sexual
assault.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Dallas
Amount: $7,500
Kate Wilson Davis - Donor Advised Fund ($5,000)
Laura G. Blocker, M.D. Advised Fund ($2,500)
Grant Proposal:
Currently in its second year of operation, the goal of the Training Institute
for Improved Health is to improve reproductive health outcomes among North
Texas youth by strengthening the capacity of professionals, teachers,
counselors and parents and by providing quality reproductive health educational
resources and on-line services and information.
Purpose of Agency:
Planned Parenthood of North Texas is dedicated to the achievement of parenthood
by choice, by ensuring the provision of voluntary reproductive health
care and sexuality education, and by advocating for the right of every
person to receive these services.
Media Projects
Amount: $7,260
Kate Wilson Davis Fund ($5,000)
Pat Rosenthal Fund ($2,260)
Grant Proposal:
Enhance the educational achievement of all Latinas at every level of education,
especially higher education.
Purpose of Agency:
To produce and distribute media that makes a difference ant that acts
as a catalyst for education and social change.
Our Friend’s Place
Amount: $10,000
Pat & Harriet Houck Mother-Daughter Advised Fund
Grant Proposal:
To support our Therapeutic Group Home program that provides a safe haven
and early intervention for abused, neglected, and abandoned girls, ages
10-17. Each girl in the program is subsidized, including those placed
by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS).
Purpose of Agency:
To provide a foundation for girls and young women to build from adversity
by learning a self-reliant approach to their own development.
Planned Living Assistance Network of North Texas
Amount: $10,000
Judith Tate McCall Advised Fund
Grant Proposal:
Five women who live with serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia)
will receive comprehensive mental health services for one year in order
that they can gain skills recover abilities and talents and contribute
to their community. These women are all indigent and lack any family support.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide a comprehensive program for adults with mental illness that
supplements the care giving of family today and replaces it tomorrow.
AVANCE - Dallas
Amount: $4,000
Grant Proposal:
AVANCE-Dallas a dynamic not for profit Texas corporation, provides bilingual,
high-impact Parent Education and Early Childhood Development Programs
for Low income families at 14 Title 1 Elementary Schools located throughout
Dallas and its surrounding communities. Funding is requested for the Oak
Cliff Team, which provides programming for the poorest, least educated,
and most isolated Hispanic women in the city.
Purpose of Agency:
To empower Hispanics to reach personal and collective greatness through
educational opportunities unleashing the power of learning.
Nexus Recovery Center, Inc.
Amount: $5,000
Grant Proposal:
Nexus Recovery Center's Adolescent Program is a gender-specific treatment
program designed to address the issues of female substance abusers 12-17
years old. The population is made up of girls who have a significant history
of substance use and abuse, and are plagued with multiple problems. Most
are low income and come from single parent families where there has been
abuse or neglect.
Purpose of Agency:
Recovery and sustained independence from alcohol and drug abuse for disadvantaged
women, women with children, and adolescent females.
Center for NonProfit Management
Amount: $13,000 total
($8,500 Emerging Fund; $4,500 Faith-Based Fund)
Purpose of Agency:
Management assistance improves effectiveness in program delivery, and
therefore increases the impact the agency has on its clients and on the
community. The Center for Nonprofit Management has a proven track record
of helping nonprofits succeed. In the late 1970's, the Meadows Foundation
in Dallas recognized a significant need for staff development and management
assistance to charitable organizations. In 1980, with the support of other
local funders, Meadows provided the seed funding to establish the Center
for Nonprofit Management. Today, the Center receives support from donations,
grants, fees for services and annual membership dues at a minimal cost
and is a United Way affiliate.