Homeward Bound, Inc.
$20,000
Verizon

Purpose of Agency:
To provide programs and professional services which promote the development of positive behavioral health and independence for individuals and families caught up in the cycles of substance abuse and addiction.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the establishment of a “technology training center” to introduce female clients to the basic software packages to include MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Participants would receive approximately 20 hours of instruction over the course of two weeks. A typing/keyboard tutorial would also be introduced as well as the basics of the internet with a focus on job searches, housing searches and information searches.

 

The Wilkinson Center
$8,000
Verizon

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

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Career Works program which helps to achieve economic stability through fulfilling employment for families. It addresses the core reasons for the plight of women through 60 hours of intensive self-assessment and education. The curriculum covers the areas of: Work Motivation, Career Planning, Career Path Strategies, Working for Advancement, Understanding the U.S. Business Culture, Overcoming Barriers to Employment, and Marketing Yourself.

 

SER Child Development Center
$6,770
Verizon

Purpose of Agency:
To reduce cultural, educational, and language barriers of young children at risk of performing poorly in school through multiculturally relevant, educational child development programs, bilingual workforce training, emergent biliteracy programs, and parent involvement programs to offer a bright future for our nation's most precious Legacy: Our Children".

Grant Proposal:
To fund the effective delivery of the Child Care and Education Workforce Child Development Associate (CDA) Credentialing Training and Apprentice/Mentor programs designed to enhance the economic self-sufficiency of women by increasing their skill levels to a paraprofessional level, which, will place them on a career ladder that will advance their salary and position levels.

 

Training for Excellence
$3,230
Verizon

Purpose of Agency:
To provide the highest level of professional life skills training within an urban community setting to the disadvantaged, underserved and the unemployed. The client's ability to succeed is our first priority. Our training programs are designed to achieve this mission. We foster a training environment that provides personalized attention, enhance skills and career development.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Job Readiness Training Program for Women (JRTPW) which is designed to enhance the employability and self-sufficiency of refugee women in Dallas while they adapt to their new home.

Austin Street Centre (Shelter Ministries)
$2,000
Verizon

Purpose of Agency:
To provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless person in a compassionate Christian community, so that the person in need might be better able to make responsible choices and changes in their lives.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Women’s Work Therapy Program, a unique, psychosocial rehabilitation program to provide economic self-sufficiency to homeless women. It teaches the skills necessary to find meaningful employment so that these women may support themselves and their children. The program includes job skills training, parenting skills training, grooming and socialization skills, substance abuse counseling and overall life skills.

 

Community Services YMCA – Sunset Teen Parenting Program
$5,000
Field of Interest Education Grant

Purpose of Agency:
To work with youth and their families to develop problem solving and social skills, build self-esteem and foster a sense of purpose, hope and direction.

Grant Proposal:
The Sunset Teen Parenting Program focuses on teen parents completing their high school education, while providing childcare, tutoring, parenting education classes and basic life readiness skills. Throughout the day their children participate in developmentally appropriate lesson plans where they are challenged mentally and physically. Parents spend quality time with their children before and after school and maintain at least a "C" average with low school absences.

Denton City County Day School
$2,000
Brunnier Donor Advised Fund

Purpose of Agency:
To provide quality childcare for parents with low to moderate income on a sliding scale basis. Weekly fees are based on annual income and family size.

Grant Proposal:
To fund scholarships for women in need of childcare scholarships for their weekly fees. Need would be based on each family’s circumstances and application.

 

Fred Moore Day School
$2,000
Brunnier Donor Advised Fund

Purpose of Agency:
To provide the highest quality child care to families that need it the most.

Grant Proposal:
To fund childcare for single mothers in transition, who are experiencing problems because they have recently obtained new employment or are in school and need assistance with childcare. Funds will also be used to purchase daily supplies for regular operation.

 

The Turning Point
$1,000
Brunnier Donor Advised Fund

Purpose of Agency:
To provide counseling, education, and advocacy to those impacted by sexual assault.

Grant Proposal:
To fund assistance with operational expenses, specifically rent and utilities.

College of Engineering at SMU
$4,255
Women of TI Fund

Purpose of Agency:
To enhance the quality, quantity, and diversity of tomorrow’s engineering workforce.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the High Heels-High Tech workshop that will provide continuing education to middle and high school educators. The 2-day professional development workshop will provide hands-on, interactive, engaging instruction on what is engineering, preparing for college engineering, college engineering, opportunities in engineering and life as an engineer.

 

Austin Street Centre
$5,000
Garrison Donor Designated Fund

Purpose of Agency:
To provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless person in a compassionate Christian community, so that the person in need might be better able to make responsible choices and changes in their lives.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Women’s Work Therapy Program, a unique, psychosocial rehabilitation program to provide economic self-sufficiency to homeless women. It teaches the skills necessary to find meaningful employment so that these women may support themselves and their children. The program includes job skills training, parenting skills training, grooming and socialization skills, substance abuse counseling and overall life skills.

 

Hope, Inc.
$ 2,500
CREW Donor Advised Fund

Purpose of Agency:
To assist families with dependent children in the Denton area who are homeless or potentially homeless, but have the desire and the ability to move toward establishing and/or maintaining self-reliance.

Grant Proposal:
To fund operating expenses for the Transition Housing Program and Transition Assistance Program (TAP) which provides financial and life skills support for a period of one month to two years for women with children experiencing homelessness due to relationship violence and/or sexual assault, who are exiting an emergency shelter.

 

Mosaic Family Services, Inc.
$15,000
CREW

Purpose of Agency:
To provide culturally and linguistically sensitive services for families, giving them the tools and opportunities they need to live healthy lives, free from substance abuse and social, psychological, and cultural adjustment problems.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Multicultural Family Violence Program that provides a culturally competent safe haven for survivors of domestic violence from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The Mosaic Transitional House is designed to offer a supportive environment where survivors may increase in physical and emotional well-being, economic self-sufficiency and the ability to live lives free from violence.

 

Circle of Support
$10,000
CREW

Purpose of Agency:
To equip girls in Southern Dallas with academic, leadership and life skills to become productive and responsible citizens.

Grant Proposal:
To fund two programs for girls: The Girl S.M.A.R.T. Summer Learning Program, an 8 week summer academic and enrichment opportunity created especially for girls. The Up & Out After-school Program, a job-readiness, job training, job placement, academic, college preparation and life planning program for girls 14-18 years living in the Southern Dallas Community

 

Our Friends Place
$10,000
CREW

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.

Grant Proposal:
To fund an on-site (milieu) therapist in the Therapeutic Group Home that provides a safe-haven and early intervention for abused, neglected and abandoned girls ages 10 to 17.

 

The Wilkinson Center
$10,000
CREW

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

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Career Works program which helps to achieve economic stability through fulfilling employment for families. It addresses the core reasons for the plight of women through 60 hours of intensive self-assessment and education. The curriculum covers the areas of: Work Motivation, Career Planning, Career Path Strategies, Working for Advancement, Understanding the U.S. Business Culture, Overcoming Barriers to Employment, and Marketing Yourself.

 

Galaxy Counseling Center
$5,000
CREW

Propose of Agency:
To promote emotional health and family well-being through counseling, education and outreach for members in our community in need.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Girl’s Sexual Abuse Treatment Program by supporting the salary for therapists of this program. The goal of the program is to help girls (between age 3 and 17), who are suffering from the effects of sexual abuse, improve self-esteem, strengthen relationships and decrease emotional distress.

 

Genesis Women’s Shelter
$5,000
CREW

Purpose of Agency:
To provide a safe haven to battered women and their children and to reduce the occurrence of physical violence against women and children in the greater Dallas area.

Grant Proposal:
Funds would support housing for battered women and their children, including assistance with rent, furnishings, and case management oversight. The goal of the program is to equip clients with life enrichment skills that will allow them to live independently of their abusive partner. The objectives are for each woman to find sustainable employment, to learn to manage her personal finances, to find child-care resources and to receive counseling support as she begins to shoulder the emotional load of providing for and raising children alone.

 

Fred Moore Day Nursery
$5,000
CREW

Purpose of Agency:
To provide the highest quality child care to families that need it the most, which we consider to be families that are low to moderate income.

Grant Proposal:
To fund full-time childcare for children of single mothers in transition, who are experiencing problems because they have recently obtained new employment or are in school and need assistance with child care. Funds would also be used to purchase daily supplies for regular operation. The program provides full-time care to children whose families meet agency criteria, which is: to be working full-time, going to school full-time.

 

OUT TAKES Dallas Foundation
$2,500
Lesbian Donor Circle

Purpose of Agency:
To enlighten, educate and enrich and entertain diverse communities about gays and lesbians through the medium of film and video and to contribute funds to organizations seeking to foster similar goals.

Grant Proposal:
To fund a sponsorship of the women’s film program for the 7th annual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The festival’s goal is to provide the highest quality films as well as exposure for women filmmakers to exhibit their work relating to important themes concerning the lesbian community.

 

Women’s Communities Association
$2,500
Lesbian Donor Circle

Purpose of Agency:
To create an interconnective, geographic network through which Lesbians and other women without traditional support systems (older women and women who live alone) can find support, resources and enrichment. The WCA vision is a better world for women. The Method: women helping women. Every woman empowered. Every woman a resource.

Grant Proposal:
To support training/organizational development preferably through the Center for Nonprofit Management.)

 

Girls, Inc.
$2,500
Adair Fund

Purpose Of Agency:
Encourages girls to discover their own identity, develop their potential and grow in their sense of responsibility to self, family, and community. It provides female-focused programs that empower girls to take charge of their lives.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the Investment of a Lifetime Scholarship program.

 

Dallas Christian Women’s Job Corps
$5,000
First Preston Fund

Purpose of Agency:
To provide a Christian context in which women in need are equipped for life and employment, and a mission context in which women help women.

Grant Proposal:
To fund the partial salary of a part-time site coordinator.

 

Center for Nonprofit Management
$2,000
Emerging Grant

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.

Grant Proposal:
Funds would support Capacity Building Training Session 3, a 4-hour session comprised of 2 hours of Budgeting 101 class content, presenting foundational information on annual financial planning for nonprofits and 1.5 hours of Budgeting Practicum that leads participants through exercise and review of drafting a budget for their own organization.