Spring 2006 CREW Grant Recipients
Attitudes and Attire
$20,000 CREW Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency
Attitudes and Attire is a non-profit agency dedicated to promoting personal growth for women seeking self-sufficiency. The program provides the tools that raise self-esteem, promote ethics and build the confidence necessary to succeed in the workplace and serves Dallas County.
Grant Proposal:
Funds would support 80 women to participate in their flagship program. This agency works in tandem with non-profit job training programs and assists women in identifying workplace appropriate clothing as they enter into a career. In addition, women attend a seminar on work ethics, personal responsibility, self-confidence and self-esteem.
Boys and Girls Club of Collin County
$10,000 CREW Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To inspire and enable all young people, especially, those from disadvantaged circumstance, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Grant Proposal:
Funds would support the SMART Girls program in Plano, McKinney and Frisco. This program works with at-risk girls on topics including continuing education, health, pregnancy prevention, communication skills, and self-esteem building.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas
$10,200 CREW Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To inspire and enable all young people, especially, those from disadvantaged circumstance, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Grant Proposal:
Funds would support the SMART Girls program in Dallas County. This program works with at-risk girls on topics including continuing education, health, pregnancy prevention, communication skills, and self-esteem building.
Galaxy Counseling Center
$5,500 CREW Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To promote emotional health and family well-being, through counseling, education, and outreach, for members of our community in need.
Grant Proposal:
Funds would support the Sexual Abuse Treatment Program which provides ongoing therapy for survivors of sexual abuse in Dallas and Denton Counties. Funds would be used to remodel their play therapy rooms and to start two group therapy sessions.
Girl Scouts of Tejas Council
$11,000 CREW Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Girl Scouts builds courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
Grant Proposal:
Funds would support the expansion of the Tejas Action Group (TAG) to two additional DISD schools. TAG is designed to reach underserved neighborhoods that typically cannot support traditional Girl Scout troops. Currently, the program is in 50 Dallas county schools. This grant would serve Northwest Dallas and South Irving.
Our Friend’s Place
$10,800 CREW Spring Grant
$9,200 Boone Family Fund Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Dedicated to providing a foundation for girls and young women to build from adversity by learning a self-reliant approach to their own development.
Grant Proposal:
To support the Therapeutic Group Home program that provides a safe haven and early intervention for abused, neglected, and abandoned girls, ages 10-17. Girls participate in individual, group and recreational therapy that promote healing under the supervision of degreed and professionally trained staff. The girls work with the staff to establish goals and individual treatment plans to facilitate reaching those goals. Girls stay in the home until they have a safe environment where they can go.
Spring 2006 Verizon Grant Recipients
AVANCE-Dallas
$8,928 Verizon Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To advance Hispanics’ personal and collective greatness through educational opportunities, unleashing the power of learning.
Grant Proposal:
To support the adult education program providing GED training to Hispanic mothers who lack the educational skills, access and funding power to improve their lives and attain good jobs. Serving the community of West Dallas. It also provides stimulating childcare for their children while the mothers are in class.
Interfaith Housing Coalition
$20,000 Verizon Spring Grant
Grant Proposal:
To support the employment program which includes job search skills, employment counseling, financial literacy training and after-school child care and full-day summer programs for school-aged resident children while mothers are involved in job search or working. Serves Dallas County.
Purpose of Agency:
Provides programs and services designed to empower homeless mothers to gain employment, build financial stability and lay the foundation for brighter futures for their children.
Plano ISD Education Foundation
$1,072 Verizon Spring Grant
$7,700 Dallas Women’s Foundation Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To build healthy families by working with the entire family unit developing life skills, literacy skills and a strong commitment to family wholeness.
Grant Proposal:
The continuation of the Plano ISD Even Start program to provide the increasingly number of disenfranchised families in the Plano area with the required skills needed for sustainable self-sufficiency and well-being.
The Wilkinson Center
$10,000 Verizon Spring Grant
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. Serving South and East Dallas.
Grant Proposal:
CareerWorks provides comprehensive career training and follow-up to people (primarily women) who have experienced barriers to employment. These women are often homeless, victims of domestic violence and provide the sole means of support for minor children. These women had been resigned to employment at minimum wage and never became financially secure. Transforms the lives of approximately 100 women each year.
Dallas Women’s Foundation Spring Grants
Family Outreach Center of East Dallas
$10,000 Dallas Women’s Foundation Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
A community based partnership that makes a difference for future generations by enhancing and strengthening family relationships through the efforts of trained, caring volunteers. Serving East Dallas.
Grant Proposal:
Provide a program to teen-mothers attending Dallas area high schools. In addition, in-home mentoring services to parents at-risk for child abuse/neglect are provided. This proposal is to expand and enhance both of these programs by offering in-home mentoring to the teen-parents they work with in the teen-parenting class.
Jewish Family Services
$9,300 Dallas Women’s Foundation Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To preserve and strengthen the quality of life for individuals and families in the Jewish and greater Dallas communities by providing essential and affordable mental health and social services. Serving North Dallas, Collin County and the Metroplex.
Grant Proposal:
To support a case manager salary for the Family Justice Center (FJC). The FJC will compliment the agency’s current Career Employment Services. The goal of the Family Justice Center is for clients to obtain physical, financial, and psychological safety from abuse. This new program focuses solely on women’s employment needs to empower them with the confidence and skills needed to remove themselves from situations of abuse and family violence
Teens at Work
$10,000 Dallas Women’s Foundation Spring Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Fosters teens’ ethical, social, and professional development, designed to increase personal responsibility and character development essential for being prepared for the workplace.
Grant Proposal:
To support their job readiness program in South Dallas. This program is an eight week session training program formulated to teach work ethics, effective communication skills, resume writing skills, interviewing techniques, character development, and money management.
Trinity Chapter, the Links Incorporated
$8,000 Dallas Women’s Foundation Spring Grant
$8,000 Boone Family Fund Grant
Purpose of Agency:
The Trinity chapter of the Links, Incorporated has begun so SMAART as a legacy for tomorrow by creating today's achievable dreams in ethnic (minority) girls through education and exposure to important components such as science, mathematics, the arts, aviation, reading and technology. Serving South and West Dallas, and Oak Cliff.
Grant Proposal:
So SMAART is a four year early intervention and development program designed to provide and/or enhance the knowledge of students ages 9-12 about the vital fields of mathematics, science and technology. Additional focus areas are reading, the arts and aviation
Mother Daughter Giving Circle
After-School All-Stars
$4,640 Mother Daughter Giving Circle Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To provide comprehensive out-of-school programs that keep children safe and help them achieve in school and life in South and West Dallas.
Grant Proposal:
The Girl’s Volleyball Program helps identify and encourage girls who can become leaders but might otherwise be forgotten, including girls who are physically or emotionally abused, economically disadvantaged or homeless.
Circle of Support
$10,000 Mother Daughter Giving Circle Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To equip girls in Southern Dallas with academic, leadership and life skills to become productive and responsible citizens
Grant Proposal:
The Girl SMART summer learning program offers an eight-week fun-filled, interactive stimulating summer academic and enrichment opportunity created especially for girls
Girl Scouts of Tejas Council
$3,360 Mother Daughter Giving Circle Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Girl Scouts builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
Grant Proposal:
Place the Tejas Action Group in one Dallas elementary school, serving 50 girls. Designed to reach underserved neighborhoods, TAG is a 16 week after-school outreach program that brings Girls Scouts to girls who might otherwise not have the opportunity to experience the program. Through TAG, girls develop important life skills such as problem-solving goal setting, getting along with peers, and leadership. These prevention skills are instrumental in helping girls deal successfully with potentially high risk behaviors.
Donor Advised Funds
Jubilee Park and Community Center Corporation
20,000 from the Kate Wilson Davis Fund
Purpose of Agency:
To be a catalyst for community renewal and enrichment to the surrounding South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood, with special emphasis on comprehensive, community revitalization and the education of children and adults
Grant Proposal:
To support the current ESL/GED classes that are offered onsite to the community as well as to provide support for the Teen Girl Program. Funds will be used for both programs and includes books, software, resource materials and security for both programs.
Oak Cliff Center for Community Studies
$10,000 from the Houck Mother/Daughter Fund
Purpose of Agency:
To empower Latinos/Latinas through higher education and community involvement. Serving Dallas and Oak Cliff.
Grant Proposal:
To support the initiation of the new program, College Prep 101 for Mothers & Daughters. The program’s purpose it to assure that girls and their mothers understand the value of a college education and take advantage of resources that are available in order to succeed in and graduate from college.
YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas
$10,000 from the First Preston Fund
Mission Statement:
The YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas’ purpose is to improve women’s lives and remove barriers to self-sufficiency through child care, parenting skills, financial literacy and health services.
Grant Proposal:
To support the Financial Empowerment Program. In cooperation with partnering agencies (Dallas Housing, Irving Public Library, Dominion Training, Plano Housing, Cornell Corrections and Plan Fund), small classes are offered to women on financial literacy and skills, which promote the establishment of banking relationships with banking partners, and offer matching funds in the form of an Individual Development Account (“IDA”) for women who successfully complete the financial education component. To be matched, IDAs must be established for the purpose of home purchase, home repair, post-secondary education or starting a business, and the client must successfully keep the monitored account for a year. Funding makes the services more accessible to Hispanic females.
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grants
Girls in Motion
$3,500
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Girls in Motion is a not-for-profit organization that trains college age women to mentor preadolescent girls with the goal of promotion positive body image and preventing obesity and eating disorders
Grant Proposal:
To fund continued board governance training and development of a business plan and to fund renewal membership to the Center for Nonprofit Management’s Leaders Circle for 2006-2007.
Grace United Methodist Church Agape Clinic
$3,000
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To improve the health of the medically underserved through providing community health services as a mission of Grace United Methodist Church.
Grant Proposal:
To fund a consultant to conduct a Board Self-Assessment and partial funding for a first financial audit with the agency funding the balance of the audit expense.
Hope Clinic of Garland (Formerly Friendship House Health Ministries)
$2,000
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Reflecting Christ's love to the underserved population in Garland by providing health care services, spiritual support, social services, counseling and referrals to community agencies.
Grant Proposal:
To fund the services of a consultant to assist the staff and board in the development of a three year strategic plan and a fund development plan.
Jr. Finance Literacy Academy
$1,700
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Jr. Finance Literacy Academy’s mission is to provide high quality performance based financial, investor, credit, and homebuyer education to youth and adults while helping individuals and families become financially literate and self-sufficient. Serving Dallas County.
Grant Proposal:
To fund accounting services to prepare financial statements including cash flow statements, income statements and balance sheet for 2004 & 2005 in preparation for required audits.
LifeSavers Foundation
$4,000
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
The LifeSavers Foundation is a faith-based nonprofit organization, founded to assist women and children in times of crisis. The focus is on empowerment rather than entitlement to help women take responsibility for and improve their own and their children's lives. Serving Dallas and Collin County.
Grant Proposal:
To purchase donor software, including training for staff and support once installed.
The Magdalen House
$1,000
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
The primary mission of The Magdalen House is to provide a free, safe place where women may detox from alcohol abuse. The Magdalen House gives women residents the opportunity to become acquainted with a 12 step program, and provides additional resources geared toward helping the women reestablish their life without alcohol
Grant Proposal:
To fund operating expenses for the agency.
Project Transformation
$4,000
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
Project Transformation's mission is to connect the energy of young adults, the strength of church-supported institutions, and the untapped resources of underserved neighborhoods to meet the evolving needs of children and youth. Serving South, West and East Dallas, and Irving.
Grant Proposal:
To fund the development of comprehensive donor communications plan. A range of donor communication and direct response fundraising services include donor communications planning; donor acquisition, renewal and lapsed donor programs; planned giving marketing; major gift campaign program; donor database analysis and reporting; and prospect identification and gift targeting.
The Roy Williams Safety Net Foundation
$1,000
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
The mission of the Roy Williams Safety Net Foundation is to ensure that low-income single mothers raising children in the Dallas community are provided with support, guidance, and assistance in an effort to enhance their quality of life.
Grant Proposal:
To fund the implementation of the Preparing for the Workforce program which serves as one of the components of the agency’s Commitment to Excellence Program. Preparing for the Workforce offers job training, computer skills development, resume building, interview workshops and job placement.
Youth First Texas
$2,225
Emerging Agency Leadership Institute Grant
Purpose of Agency:
The mission of Youth First Texas is to provide group interaction and individual support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-22 by providing age-appropriate activities, programs and resources that facilitate empowerment and self-acceptance.
Grant Proposal:
To support board development and training, and grant prospect development including: membership in the Center for Nonprofit Management (CNM); tuition for 6 strategic courses at the CNM; onsite- board training; 3 year membership to Director of Texas Foundations Online for multiple users; and a Directory of Texas Foundations.
Field of Interest Education Grant
Edith Cavell Nursing Scholarship Fund
$2.500
Field of Interest Education Grant
Purpose of Agency:
To give financial assistance to all persons of U.S. citizenship applying or attending nursing school in Dallas, Denton & Collin Counties who are committed to the pursuit of a nursing degree at an accredited nursing program; to passing the state licensing board exam and thereby becoming a registered nurse; and who plan to work and or teach in the Health Science field, but with a focus on the area of nursing.
Grant Proposal:
To assist students whose goals range from nursing, nursing educators, nurse practitioners to physician assistants, including an Associates Degree, a Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing or possibly a Masters of Science degree in Nursing. Eligible scholars are considered based upon financial need, academic ability and overall desire.