$1,285 Dallas Women's Foundation
Emerging Agency Grant
Grant Proposal:
To support the Life Skills Program for 50 women by providing office supplies, life skills class books, bus passes and to pay a facilitator for 15, one-hour classes for the program.
Purpose of Agency:
To pull men and women out of less than fortunate situations by assisting them to turn their lives around by pointing them to Jesus Christ, and by providing them a safe Christian environment to live with guidance and hope to become productive members of our society and communities.
$5,000 Ruth Ray Hunt Memorial Fund Grant
Grant Proposal:
The Work Therapy Program for Women is intended to provide economic self-sufficiency to homeless women in a unique psychosocial rehabilitation program, teach the skills needed to obtain full time employment.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless person in a compassionate Christian community, and to provide "whole person" therapeutic programs so that the person in need might be better able to make responsible choices, positive changes and have economic self-sufficiency.
Buckner Children and Family Services, Inc.
$20,000 Ruth Ray Hunt Memorial Fund Grant
Grant Proposal:
Family Pathways is a transitional affordable housing, welfare-to-work program for low-socioeconomic, single mothers with children.
Purpose of Agency:
Buckner Children and Family Services is a Christian ministry devoted to protecting children, promoting independence, and building strong families.
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity
$30,000 Crew Donor Designated Grant
Grant proposal:
To build a Habitat home for a deserving low-income single mother and her children in the historic Joppa neighborhood.
Purpose of Agency:
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing ministry that works to eradicate poverty and substandard housing by building safe, decent, and affordable homes in partnership with deserving low-income families. Since its incorporation in 1986, Dallas Area Habitat has built over 560 homes in 20 neighborhoods of Dallas County, housing over 2000 family members.
$14,5000 Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
To support the Transitional Housing-Women's program for single adult women attempting to establish secure housing and re-enter society from a variety of situations - recent release from jail/prison, struggles with mental illness or disabilities.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide quality services, treatment and assistance to people who live with the challenges of mental illness or developmental disabilities.
$20,000 Ruth Ray Hunt Memorial Fund
Grant Proposal:
To support general operating expenses for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accredited child-care program.
Purpose of Agency:
The Dallas Bethlehem Center is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the children of the South Dallas Community. They work to strengthen the entire family structure by providing holistic services for each child's mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional needs.
$15,000 CREW Grant
$5,000 Davis Donor Advised Fund Grant
Grant Proposal:
To support program expenses for a new center through the "4 Steps to Excellence Program" that targets non-profit childcare and preschool centers in low income areas that may be considered baby sitting operations.
Purpose of Agency:
To improve the quality and availability of early childhood education for economically disadvantaged Dallas area children.
Boone Family Donor Advised Fund - $10,000
Miller Donor Advised Fund $ 1,000
Grant Proposal:
This money is for installation of professional kitchen equipment donated to Family Gateway by Whole Foods. Family Gateway’s current equipment is over 20 years old. Total installation costs will exceed $35,000.
Purpose of Agency:
Family Gateway, in cooperation with the religious community, the private sector, and governmental entities, 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.
$6,400 Dallas Women's Foundation Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
To fund the Click-for-Success program to develop and offer a comprehensive curriculum and digital literacy program to Homeward Bound, a non-profit agency which is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Dallas.
Purpose of Agency:
To breaking the cycle of poverty through educational and economic strategies that empower the economically disadvantaged.
Fred Moore Day Nursery School Inc.
$8,000 Dallas Women's Foundation Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
For general operating expenses which allow the organization to accept single mothers who are in need of child care while they are either in search of employment, women who are underemployed and women in school or job training.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide quality affordable childcare to single parents and low income families while preparing children (with emphasis on girls) to have a strong math and science foundation.
$10,000 Dallas Women's Foundation Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
LIFE is a multi-family substance abuse prevention program oriented toward homeless, single mothers with children between the ages of 6-11; the program teaches life skills to children and parenting skills to adults in order to break the cycle of homelessness.
Purpose of Agency:
To prevent homelessness and to stabilize families, the elderly, and the disabled in decent, affordable, permanent housing, and to empower these groups to be able to solve future housing problems.
$10,000 Wachovia Grant
$10,000 Mrs. H. L. (Ruth Ray) Hunt Memorial Fund Grant
Grant Proposal:
For the Interfaith Housing Coalition Employment Program which helps homeless mothers achieve permanent, full-time employment and progress toward earning a living wage to support their daughters and sons.
Purpose of Agency:
To be the hands of Christ helping families transition to self sufficiency and new hope.
$15,000 CREW Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
To provide scholarship support and professional development for Mi Escuelita teachers including Associates and Bachelors Degrees.
Purpose of Agency:
Mi Escuelita is an early childhood program dedicated to teaching English and developing early learning skills to at-risk children of all cultures in preparation for a successful school experience.
Planned Living Assistance Network of North Texas Inc.
$16,900 CREW Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
PLAN will provide psychotherapy, care management, education about mental illness, and a Life Plan for 7 indigent women who are suffering from mental illness (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) and whom need and want PLAN mental health services.
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.
SER Child Development Center
$10,000 Houck Fund Grant
$5,000 Blocker Fund Grant
$5,000 Wilson Davis Grant
Grant Proposal:
To reinstate the Training & Apprenticeship Program. The program provides classes leading to a Child Development Associate degree and apprenticeships to Hispanic women wishing to further their careers or work in the childcare industry.
Purpose of Agency:
To provide multicultural, educational, and affordable literacy-focused bilingual childcare programs that guide families and prepare young children to succeed in elementary and secondary school
The Stewpot of First Presbyterian Church
$20,000 Mrs. H. L. (Ruth Ray) Hunt Memorial Fund Grant
Note: This grant is categorized as both an Education & Economic Self Sufficiency Grant.
Grant Proposal:
In January 2006, the Stewpot piloted an ESL class for mothers, responding to a need identified by the parents of the children and youth in their Saturday School program. This grant continues the ESL program for the mothers.
Purpose of Agency:
The children and youth program at the Stewpot seeks to end the cycle of poverty before it can begin. We're offering the best chance for at-risk youth to learn; develop trust and friendships; develop their intellectual and creative abilities; and begin to plan for a future that allows them to be everything they are meant to be.
$ 2,500 Dallas Women's Foundation Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
Teens at Work Summer Program is a comprehensive job readiness training and job placement program for girls 14-19 years.
Purpose of Agency:
Teens at Work is a nonprofit organization that fosters teens, ethical, social and professional development, designed to increase personal responsibility and character development that is essential to being prepared for the workplace.
Opening Doors Immigration Services at Trinity Presbyterian Church
$20,000 Mrs. H. L. (Ruth Ray) Hunt Memorial Fund Grant
Note: This grant is categorized as both an Education & Economic Self Sufficiency Grant.
Grant Proposal:
To support the cost of providing naturalization and legal immigration services to persons living within Denton and surrounding counties. Majority of the clients are low income and benefit from the minimal fees involved in processing their cases.
Purpose of Agency:
Opening Doors Immigration Services (ODIS), a community service project of Trinity Presbyterian Church, is committed to providing expert legal Immigration and naturalization Services in a safe and supporting environment. ODIS serves Denton and surrounding counties and is committed to serve clients regardless of financial limitations.
United States Association for UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refuges)
$10,000 Lori Feehan Donor Advised Fund Grant
Grant proposal:
This grant would support UNHCR’s operation to help refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR). The CAR refugees are seeking shelter in two UNHCR camps, Gondje and Amboko, in southern Chad. The refugees fled their homeland due to continued insecurity and violence in the northern region of CAR. The UN Refugee Agency cares for 24,686 CAR refugees in these two camps.
Purpose of agency:
The United States Association for UNHCR supports the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (the UN Refugee Agency) humanitarian work to protect and assist refugees around the world. The organization strives to meet the unmet needs of the world’s most vulnerable people, building support and awareness in the United States for the UN Refugee Agency’s life-saving relief programs.
$5,000 Mrs. H. L. (Ruth Ray) Hunt Memorial Fund Grant
Note: This grant is categorized as both an Economic Self Sufficiency grant and a Prevention grant.
Grant Proposal:
The Alcove offers a Parenting Program that is open to all mothers and caregivers whose children attend the center, and provides resources and education that the referring shelters often times do not provide.
Purpose of Agency:
To help alleviate the plight of homelessness in Dallas. To achieve this mission, the Vogel Alcove works to improve the lives of young homeless children during their critical developmental years through the provision of free quality childcare, developmental services, and social services.
$20,000 Mrs. H. L. (Ruth Ray) Hunt Memorial Fund Grant
$4,000 First Preston Donor Advised Fund Grant
Grant Proposal:
Adult Education Services provides tools for clients (primarily women) to create their own pathways out of poverty. CareerWorks provides comprehensive career training and follow-up to women who are often homeless, victims of domestic violence and provide the sole means of support for minor children. ESL and GED training are new features of our services.
Purpose of Agency:
To work cooperatively with people in need who desire to create a better life, so that they may reach their God-given potential and sustain themselves with dignity.