Human Services

After-School All-Stars Dallas

After-School All-Stars Dallas offers children positive alternatives to gangs, drugs, and violence by providing opportunities in exciting non-traditional activities.  They provide comprehensive out-of-school programs such as setting time aside for homework help and service learning.  Service Learning offers valuable life lessons through participation in community service activities. Success in school is supported through project-oriented programs that utilize health, fitness, and nutrition activities to teach English language arts, math and science.  Computers, technology, and games that combine entertainment with educational content are also used as teaching tools.  ASAD focuses on developing life-long abilities.
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Aid Matrix

Aid Matrix believes that by working together, we can triumph over the world's most challenging humanitarian crises. Their world class technologies make it easy and efficient for everyone from donors to non-profits to governments to get the right aid to people when and where they need it most. Aid Matrix is able to accomplish their mission by leveraging technology donations from the non-profit world and applying them to the non-profit sector. They partner with Feeding America (NTFB), FEMA, NATO, and Habitat for Humanity, and many others to move over $1.5 billion in aid annually worldwide. They connect more than 35,000 leading business, non-profit and government partners to leverage their solutions. The donated goods, money and services impact the lives of more than 65 million people. Aid Matrix is recognized for its leadership in technology, transparency, and innovation.
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AIDS Interfaith Network

AIDS Interfaith Network is an AIDS service organization dedicated to serving those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Dallas County.  AIN provides 10 different care and prevention programs such as Case Management, the Daire Adult Day Center, Meals Program, Interpretation/Translation Program, Transportation Services, Outreach Program, Volunteer Services, Prevention Case Management, HIV Prevention Education, and Pastoral Services.  Most clients served by AIN have no other access to ongoing support services, and for many these services are life saving. 
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Alley’s House

Alley’s House provides services to teen mothers.  Alley’s House mission is to empower teen mothers and their children to achieve independence through education, ultimately changing their destiny by breaking the cycle of poverty and welfare.  Clients range in age from 13 to 21, with an average of 17.  AH has a mentoring program, life skill workshops which is called Building Brighter Tomorrows, and case management services.  Case management service provides semi-monthly home visits with each teen mom.   Poverty is the most visible factor in teen pregnancy in Dallas County, and approximately 83% of teen births are to mothers living in poverty.
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Attitudes & Attire

Attitudes and Attire is a non-profit agency dedicated to promoting personal growth for women seeking self-sufficiency.  Their program provides the tools that raise self-esteem, promote ethics and build the confidence necessary to succeed in the workplace.  The majority of referrals are from women’s shelters, homeless shelters, rehabilitation agencies, and the Texas Workforce Commission.  None of the women referred to the program are currently supporting themselves financially.  Most are receiving public assistance.  They are all seeking employment, so they may become self-sufficient and reduce their dependency on public resources.  This program teaches these women to see themselves in a new light, see the value in themselves and arm themselves with confidence to make positive choices, and provides the clothing to take on the professional world. 
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The Battered Women’s Foundation

The Battered Women’s Foundation provides the means for clients to become permanently self-sufficient and violence free.  They provide counseling, emergency food and clothing and temporary shelter, assist clients with permanent housing, utilities, education, child-care, transportation, job search skills, medical care, daily living needs, and help rebuild their self-esteem and give them hope. 
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Bea’s Kids
Bea’s Kids serves children from low-income families in the Carrollton/Farmers Branch area.  Their mission is dedication to the education and personal development of children so they can break the cycle of poverty and be contributing members of society.  Bea’s Kids crusade against hunger, illiteracy, school dropout, domestic strife, drugs, violence, gangs, and poverty.  They service 150 Hispanic students Pre-K through 12th grade in four low-income apartment complexes.
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Brighter Tomorrows

Brighter Tomorrows provides emergency shelter and support services to those in fear of domestic or sexual violence, and to break the poverty/welfare cycle through training and assistance in obtaining employment.  Clients in shelters receive counseling, education, housing, childcare and other necessary items at no cost. Non-resident services include a 24 hour crisis hotline, individual counseling, support groups, legal advocacy, Parenting classes, life skills classes, Expect Reach (middle and high school interactive program to educate young adults), community education, computer training, referrals (in such areas as housing, employment, childcare, training, governmental resources, etc.).
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Bryan’s House

Bryan’s House provides compassionate, comprehensive medically managed care for children and their families who are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS.  The programs are designed to serve the under-served minority and hard-to-reach populations.  Some of the programs are Adopt-A-Family, which provides gifts for Bryan’s House client children during the holiday season, play therapy and counseling services, transportation (through a collaboration with the AIDS Interfaith Network), social case management and Camp Kuumba and specialized support groups for African women and Spanish-speaking women. 
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Builders of Hope
The Mission of Builders of Hope CDC is to deliver quality affordable housing to stimulate the revitalization of West Dallas in order to develop a healthy and safe community.  This program is designed to work in partnership with Dallas County Probation, to assist the hard to employ probationers in employment.  Builders of Hope provide job training for low and moderate-income individuals as they rehab homes and receive practical experience in new construction.  They learn how to make noticeable contributions to their families and society.  EFF Grant enabled BoH to change the lives of young men by providing construction job training and mentoring partnerships with the Dallas County Probation Department.  There are no job training programs in our area that’s specifically designed for young men who have a criminal record.  This is a pilot program that has been adopted by Dallas County Probation as an effective tool to prevent recidivism.
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Camp Fire USA

Camp Fire, Camp El Tesoro’s parent organization, offers youth and families a camping program.  Each week of the summer camp sessions, along with more than 100 typically developing children, they mainstream into the camp setting up to five children with mild to moderate mental retardation and other physical impairments.  They have had children with Downs Syndrome, Fragile X, Autism and children in wheelchairs.  These special children participate in all of the activities with the other children.  Each of the special children has an assigned Counselor who is with them at all times to offer assistance when needed. 
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Center for Nonprofit Management
The mission of the Center for Non-Profit Management is to build a stronger community by increasing the performance and impact of non-profit organizations. The Center is the only management support organization (MSO) that provides comprehensive management assistance and training to public charities in North Texas. For over 25 years, area non-profit organizations have relied on the Center to help them integrate efficient management practices into their client services. The Center has grown significantly in the last 26 years and is now providing a broad range of services to over 1,300 nonprofit agencies per year, ranging in size from small, emerging nonprofits to large, well-established organizations. To be more accessible to nonprofit organizations, the Center has now begun to offer services offsite, in underserved and outlying communities. In order to keep services affordable, the fees charged to the non-profit organizations are purposely kept low.
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Central Dallas Ministries
Central Dallas Ministries was created to serve the needs of inner city Dallas. The Community Resource Center helps people with food, rent, utilities assistance, clothing, and transportation.  Also, they have Youth Outreach programs, legal action works, and community health services.  CDM reaches many people who have nowhere to turn to or “fall thru the cracks” with other social services organizations.  CDM operates The Nurture, Knowledge and Nutrition program that deliver meals to designated locations (schools, community facilities) for low-income children who participate in summer programs.  Without this program, most of these “latch key” children would not have food during the day.
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Child Abuse Prevention Center
Child Abuse Prevention Center addresses poverty and violence in our community while promoting healthy families living free from violence.  They work to achieve their mission, which is to break the cycle of child abuse through their curriculum of educational, social service, and counseling programs.  A Family Support Worker is assigned to a family to do home visits.  The Family Support Worker used curricula to support parents in learning about their children’s physical, social, and emotional development, about proper care of infants, appropriate disciplinary methods, the importance of immunizations, and well child care, preparation of their child for pre-school, and the formation of a secure attachment between the parent and the child.
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Children’s Advocacy Center of Denton
Prior to the Advocacy Center concept, each agency involved in a case worked independently. Investigations were not conducted in a child friendly facility, and there was little sharing of information. Consequently, the chances of prosecuting an offender for victimizing a child were very slight. The child and family were often re-victimized by the same system that was meant to protect them. Recognizing the need for a united effort in combating and treating child abuse in Denton County, the District Attorney’s Office formed the Denton County Children’s Advocacy Center Task Force in 1994. This task force was comprised of representatives from the District Attorney’s Office, Child Protective Services, law enforcement agencies, professionals in abuse-related fields, and community members. This group of concerned citizens laid the groundwork for an Advocacy Center – a child friendly place where child victims could be interviewed and counseled during investigations of alleged child abuse. Today, the CACDC is a non-profit agency governed by a 16 member board of directors that meets monthly and assisted by a 15 member advisory council. It is a public-private collaboration that strives to minimize the trauma of child abuse through a team approach to the investigation, prosecution, and treatment of serious child abuse cases. The team approach consolidates law enforcement, Child Protective Services, prosecutors, therapists and volunteers in one location.
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Child & Family Guidance Center

Child & Family Guidance Center provides therapy-based services by psychologists, social workers, and licensed professional counselors.  Services include individual, family and group therapy, play therapy, diagnostic testing, and psychiatric consultation.  GFGC works with Child Protective Services to prevent or reduce the risk of further child abuse or neglect, and assist families.  CFGC is one of the largest providers of outpatient mental health in North Texas.
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Christian Community Action

Christian Community Action operates the Raymond Bandy Clinic, which is the only free health clinic in the Lewisville area.  Denton County does not have a county hospital.  Their clinic serves only the uninsured adults living within the seven school districts they serve.  Children are served by a nonprofit pediatric clinic serving the same communities.  However, they do have a dental clinic seeing both children and adults.  Some of their other services include food pantry, housing restoration, vocational services, and family assistance, Kids Eat Free, Back to School and Christmas Toy Store programs.
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Circle of Support, Inc.
Circle of Support, Inc is a thriving organization empowered with the mission of preparing girls in the Southern Dallas community with academic achievement, leadership and life skills. They also provide access to necessary resources that will help them develop and become productive and responsible women.
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Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer

Clayton Dabney Foundation serves disadvantaged and underprivileged children, 21 years old and under, in the last stages of terminal cancer whose family has dire financial needs, including middle income families in which both parents are working and are unable to take time off because of the devastating expenses of cancer treatments.  CDF creates “Everlasting Memories” for a child by providing gifts or last wishes that are out of the financial reach of the parents. 
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Collin County Committee on Aging
Collin County Committee on Aging assisted by volunteers serves more than 600 meals daily though their Meals on Wheels program, including home-delivered and congregate meals at six senior centers countywide.  Also, they implemented the Collin County Area Regional Transportation program.  CCART serves more than 120,000 riders with over 47 vehicles covering 1,000,000 miles each year.  These trips provide transportation for the elderly for daily living tasks like grocery shopping, doctor visits, dialysis, trips to work, and other appointments.  CCCOA also has a Caregiver Support Service, which provides resources, education, and support for the family and friends who are responsible for their loved one. 
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Community Partners of Dallas

Community Partners of Dallas supports projects that enable Child Protective Services (CPS) caseworkers to make the most positive impact possible on the victims of child abuse in Dallas County.  Kids in Crisis Program provides funding for critical needs such as clothing, transportation, enrichment activities, housing, medical expenses, and therapy for children in need.  Adopt a Caseworker program help caseworkers with many needs such as car seats to transport children (not provided by state); the Rainbow Room program helps to provide new clothing and hygiene supplies and help with sexual, emotional, and/or physical abuse; abandonment; physical and medical neglect.
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Court Appointed Special Advocates of Collin County, Inc.
The mission statement of CASA is to provide trained community volunteers to advocate the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in the court system. CASA of Collin County is appointed in 100 percent of cases where CPS removes children from their homes as a result of abuse and neglect. Their program is unique because they are appointed as the Guardian ad Litem by the District Judge of the 417^th Court, which accepts CASA’s recommendations at least 95 percent of the time in regard to the children’s lives. The Judge relies on CASA’s impartial investigation to provide her with clear, concise information allowing an informed decision on the future of the children of Collin County. In 2007, CASA’s 168 volunteers advocated for 740 unduplicated children ranging from 0-18 years. All children removed by CPS are considered homeless and therefore, do not have an income.
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Dallas Challenge, Inc.

Dallas Challenge provides quality prevention, intervention education, and outpatient substance abuse treatment to youth in North Texas area.  Youth served are ages 8-22 years old with histories of substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, truancy, school failure, and other high-risk behaviors.  DC operates four departments:  The Lasting Connections Program, Truancy Enforcement Center, The Phoenix Project, and Education Services Department.  We funded The Phoenix Project, which provides outpatient drug education, individual, group and family counseling services for youth and their families.
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Dallas Concilio of Hispanic Service Organization
The mission of the Dallas Concilio is to advocate and enhance the quality of life for Hispanics through community partnerships. The organization created a network of agencies that could serve the needs of the Hispanic population in Greater Dallas. The Concilio recognized that a natural development of its mission was to create and implement programs in response to the gaps in services as voiced by the network of agencies. These include Education which provides parent involvement programs and Community Health which focuses on diabetes awareness, nutrition and wellness, physical activity, and resources for the uninsured. The Dallas Concilio serves the Dallas-Fort Worth area, primarily in Dallas County, targeting low-income Hispanic families.
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Dallas Furniture Bank

Dallas Furniture Bank is the only independent, non-profit agency in Dallas County whose mission is to provide furniture that meets basic living needs to families and individuals who are transitioning out of homelessness, or to others who are in need.  Many of the people coming off of the street into an apartment or house do not have the money to buy furniture.  Seventy-five percent of the families and individuals in transition have no furniture whatsoever.  DFB have partnerships with 58 social service agencies who serve those in need that refer their clients.
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Dallas Habitat for Humanity
Dallas Habitat for Humanity mission is to offer low-income families the opportunity to own a safe, decent home through affordable, no interest loans.  In addition to monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own volunteer labor into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.  In lieu of a down payment, each qualified family contributes 400 volunteer hours. All Dallas area Habitat homes are Energy Star efficient.  This is due to the quality building materials used on each home and ensures that habitat homeowner’s utility bills are affordable.
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Dallas Life Foundation

Dallas Life Foundation mission is to meet the needs of the poor and homeless of the Dallas metroplex.  The Foundation provides food, shelter, clothing and counseling to all persons regardless of race, creed, color, sex, age or religion.  DLF currently houses 500 individuals per night. The facility has 50 family rooms to accommodate the growing number of intact family units who are experiencing homelessness for the first time.  A men and women’s long-term program and programs for senior citizens and those with mental and/or physical disabilities are available to residents with those special needs.
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The Dallas Ramp Project

The Dallas Ramp Project was begun by some local Kiwanis Club members to respond to the need for wheelchair ramps by needy residents of Dallas and its suburbs.  The Dallas Ramp Project works with the City of Dallas, social-services organizations, and hospitals to identify clients who need a ramp.   Their project relies on referring organizations to determine the economic need of the recipient.  The Dallas Ramp Project is 100% volunteer staffed. They liberate people imprisoned in their homes, who are unable to get out because of the front steps that most of us take for granted.
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The Dallas Texans Soccer Club

The Dallas Texans Soccer Club provides support for the fees and expenses of two additional scholarship players.  The Dallas Texans Soccer Club also provides individual development of boys and girls through athletic competition.  Also, the soccer club promotes health through rigorous physical conditioning and provides a positive outlet for youth activities. 
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Dallas Women’s Foundation
The Dallas Women’s Foundation promotes women’s philanthropy and raises money to support local programs that help women and girls build stronger communities. With the shared commitment to improve the lives of women and girls, we will be impacting our community and also making a powerful statement.
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The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration

The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration was founded in 1956. Today there are approximately 2,000 members of the parish who gather to worship at six Eucharist services each week. The parish has more than 70 active ministries and organizations and currently supports 23 outreach ministries that serve many organizations that reach out to the most needy and marginalized - the homeless, persons with HIV/AIDS, latch-key children in both West Dallas and North Dallas, school children in South Africa and Honduras. Their goal is to become a leading force in the community for social justice. As we educate and inform people, they will be empowered to actively become the agents of change needed to make a difference in the world.
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Equest

Equest is an internationally recognized nonprofit that provides therapy with horses for children and adults with all types of disabilities and learning differences.  Equest meets the needs of disabled individuals who seek therapeutic activity they cannot find elsewhere.  Equest delivers therapeutic riding opportunities which emphasize individual attention in a manner that challenges disabled riders to achieve their maximum potential and rewards their efforts. Equest program is about children and adults who are able to reach beyond the confines of their disabilities because of the intervention of their special therapy team.
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Exodus Ministries, Inc.

Founded in Dallas in 1987, Exodus Ministries Inc. is a faith-based organization that serves female ex-offenders that are re-entering society after incarceration in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and county and city jails. The Texas criminal justice system is filled with over 12,000 women who have left behind their children of all ages. When released, these women return to their community with no housing, no job, little vocational training and very few options. After their release, approximately 4,000 women, along with their children, make their home in the greater Dallas area. Exodus serves an average of 52 clients (women and children) per year. Current statistics indicate that a child of an ex-offender bears an alarming 73% chance of ending up in prison as well. This is where Exodus Ministries steps in.
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Family Gateway

Family Gateway provides comprehensive services to children whose families are in crisis, counseling, temporary housing, job search and placement assistance, transitional living apartments, case management/referrals, life skills training, and community transition services.  The long-term goals, however, are to lend the support and training needed to prevent a recurrence of the circumstances that brought about the crisis in the family and to facilitate the family’s transition of self-reliance.
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The Family Place

The Family Place is one of the first shelters for victims of family violence in the State of Texas and has been operating for 27 years.  The Family Place Safe Campus Emergency Shelter Services and Supportive Living Program emphasize providing a safe and harm-free environment for victims of domestic violence.  Support services to clients include shelter, food, clothing, medical and dental referrals, counseling services, housing location assistance, legal and financial assistance referrals, transportation, employment counseling and more.  There is also an on-site child development center and after-school program for children, each designed for learning in a familiar and safe environment.  The clients have a 45-day stay at a confidential location.
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Fort Worth Hope Center

Fort Worth Hope Center has served low-income and unemployed families in Fort Worth and South Dallas since 2002 by providing food for the hungry, educational programs and medical referrals assistance, and building collaborative relations with job training and job placement organizations for adults and their families in an effort to improve their quality of life.  They serve 15,000 families annually, including 7,200 in Fort Worth and 8,000 in South Dallas thru their Food Pantry and Resource Center.  The Resource Center also provides GED/ESL classes, computer education, youth programs, medical exams, eyeglasses, dental exams, and prescription drugs.
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Galaxy Counseling Center

Galaxy Counseling Center has a family-oriented approach to therapy that produces results by helping individuals and their families solve problems that may have existed for generations.  Services include individual and family therapy, play therapy, psychological diagnostic testing, and psychiatric consultation.  Other programs include:  Truancy Intervention & Prevention Program, Teen and Adult Anger Management Programs, Sexual Abuse Treatment, Latino Outreach and Counseling, and a Public Education Program designed to educate and engage the community in issues of mental health and family violence.  They use intervention tools designed to interrupt destructive patterns and replace them with healthy alternatives that promote a healthy family structure.  One out of three Galaxy patients are having difficulty meeting their basic needs of shelter, food, and clothing.
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Girl Scouts Cross-Timbers Council

Girls Scouts focus on building confident, caring, courageous girls who then give back to their community.  A program called CHANCES is a community outreach program that brings the Girl Scouting experience to girls living in disadvantaged circumstances that are unable to experience Girl Scouts in traditional troops.  The program activities meet the developmental, educational, emotional, and social needs and interests of girls being served.  CHANCES is designed to help girls build their self-esteem, develop and understand their values, combat negative peer pressure, strengthen decision-making abilities and social skills, and develop realistic and positive options.
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Homeward Bound
The mission of Homeward Bound is 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, addiction, criminal behavior, and metal illness. Their goal is to offer client-centered rehabilitation and development programs that enhance quality of life and interrupt the process of disease and personal disintegration that results in imprisonment, institutionalization or death. In 2007, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) approached Homeward Bound to ally with them in a formal intervention and outreach initiative called New Life Opportunities to reach “truck stop” prostitutes in the area. These women (and some men) are increasingly being targeted by serial murders, and since 2003, there have been some 500 women murdered national-wide. Until this initiative, members of this target population were ignored by human rights groups, by many health and human services providers, and in some cases by law enforcement. The goal of the DPD is to offer these women and men an opportunity to gain education, information, and access to various social services as an alternative to continued involvement in the criminal justice system and /or risk of further victimization. The DPD asked Homeward Bound’s assistance in recruiting social service providers in the community that might be willing to contribute to these efforts and asked Homeward Bound to take the lead role in organizing the efforts and involving social service providers.
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Interfaith Housing Coalition

Interfaith Housing Coalition serves homeless families transitioning to self-sufficiency with comprehensive programs and works to address the root causes of homelessness to break the poverty cycle.  The programs and support from IHC help encourage and empower clients to change their lives and make their dreams come true.  IHC addresses the complex needs of generational poverty with a community-based homelessness prevention program.
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International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is among the world’s largest non-sectarian, voluntary agencies providing relief, protection, and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conduct. Founded in 1933, the IRC has a long standing commitment to freedom, human dignity, and self-reliance. This commitment is reflected in well-planned global emergency relief, rehabilitation, resettlement assistance, and advocacy for refugees and other displaced persons. The Dallas regional office of the IRC has resettled an average of 500 refugees a year in North Texas and has played a major role in the establishment of new and vibrant ethnic communities throughout the greater Dallas area. IRC Dallas has resettled refugee families from countries such as Burman, Vietnam, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and anticipates refugees from Bhutan. Through IRS’s services, refugees learn to translate their skills and interests into valuable assets to become contributing, self-sufficient members of their new communities.
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Jewish Family Services

Jewish Family Services operates The Family Justice Center that is focused on assisting victims of family violence (including physical, sexual, financial and emotional abuse) in achieving physical, psychological and financial safety and emotional well-being.  JFS serves children, families and the elderly through clinical, career and employment, and psychiatric services.  JFS services are dedicated to assisting individuals in navigating through life’s normal transitions and unexpected crises, which may impact individuals emotionally and financially.
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Jonathan’s Place

Jonathan’s Place is the only licensed emergency shelter serving children under the age of six in Texas Region 3 and 18 surrounding counties.  The majority of newborns that come to Jonathan’s Place arrive with pre-natal exposure to drugs, and many are born addicted.  Some of these children have been neglected, and are filthy and hungry when Child Protective Services brings them to their door. Children 3 and above receive play therapy intervention to help address the issues related to their abuse. 
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Kendall’s Korner

The mission of Kendell’s Korner is to provide high quality childcare for children through age appropriate developmental and learning experiences. Their vision is to shape the mind and character of infants and toddlers into happy and smart children. Kendell’s Korner opened its doors as a group day home in August 1995 and received its IRS status in as a 501(c)(3) in December 2002. It is located in the South Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. This area is comprised of predominately low-income families, single female head-of–households, and teenage mothers.
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Legacy Counseling Center

Legacy Counseling Center provides affordable and quality mental health care, counseling, and emotional support to people in the North Texas area who are impacted by HIV and AIDS.  Their programs fall under three categories:  Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Special Care Housing.  Legacy Founders Cottage has been cited by the Texas Department of Health officials as a model special care housing facility for critically ill people living with AIDS.  Full-Service Housing or Special Care Housing includes housing, food, volunteer support, on-site case management, medical support, and counseling, representing a vital niche in the continuum of care in the Dallas Eligible Area.  Legacy Founders Cottage provides care and comfort for people living with AIDS in a home-life, loving setting in the critical stages of their illness.
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Lifeline Shelter

LifeLine Shelter for Families, Inc. was developed when local social service agencies and concerned citizens were called together in 2003 to address the problem of homeless students of the Grand Prairie Independent School District. This was initiated and led by Angela Giessner, a well known business owner and civic leader. This was in response to the GPISD Homeless Coordinator, Christine Gonzalez, educating the community that there were over 1,200 homeless students. The community was shocked. They were of the opinion that there were about four homeless people in Grand Prairie. They soon learned that families are doubled up, staying with friends or relatives, staying in cheap motels or cars at times, or being evicted with no place to go. Some have slept locked in the restrooms of gas stations, and stayed in tents in parks. The infant project was initially adopted as a service project of Grand Prairie Soroptimist International, who provided a seed grant. As the community became aware, they supported the growing agency liberally so that LifeLine has now completed five years of operation.
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Metrocare Services

Founded in 1968, Metrocare Services provides a comprehensive array of treatment and community support services to economically disadvantaged persons with mental disabilities. Metrocare, a 501(c)(3) public non-profit is the provider of choice in Dallas for helping low-income people with severe and persistent mental illness and developmental disabilities to remain successfully living in their homes, helping to keep them safe and off the streets, out of jails, and out of the hospitals. The professionally designed and run programs collaborates intensely with other homeless service providers and social service agencies, and is a high-quality program with excellent results.
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LifeNet Community Behavioral Healthcare
LifeNet has provided psychiatric rehabilitation and chemical dependency services for individuals with mental illness for over 29 years.  It is one of the largest nonprofit providers of comprehensive services, housing, and employment for the homeless and mentally ill in Dallas County.  LifeNet diagnoses and treats adults with severe mental illness, as well as children ages 4-17 with ADHD/ADD and other mental illness.  The main goals are to enhance and rebuild lives.  LifeNet believes that education and treatment will lead to social inclusion, which is the key to resolving issues.
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Mosaic Family Services, Inc.

Mosaic Family Services, Inc. is the only shelter facility in North Texas that serves the cultural and linguistic needs of immigrant women and children who have survived abuse and/or violence related in the home to human trafficking.  Their mission is to support, educate, and empower these victims by providing shelter, food, clothing, and other basic needs for women and children.  There is a 24-hour hotline provided.  Their facility consists of an apartment building with 8 units, and residents typically stay for about three months.
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The Network of Community Ministries
The Network of Community Ministries provides assistance such as food, medical and financial assistance, temporary shelter, and clothing mainly in the RISD area.   One of the programs is The Seniors’ Net to assist citizens with living as independently as possible for as long as possible.  Their Trinity Wellness Clinic promotes health and active wellness by providing essential services at no charge for persons 55 and over, including physical exams, monitoring for hypertension, blood pressure checks, blood sugar tests, ear cleaning, finger and toenail care, referral to physicians, loans of durable medical equipment such as walkers and canes, and basic health monitoring. 
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New Beginning Center

New Beginning Center offers programs to assist families affected by domestic violence.  They provide emergency shelter, a 24-hour hotline; suburban housing outreach – which helps – with rental payments and life skills training after exiting the emergency shelter; master level counselors; battering intervention and prevention program; case management; legal advocacy to provide legal services; and community education.  One of their goals is to assist clients in locating safe, permanent (or transitional)  housing upon exit of the shelter.
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Nexus Recovery Center, Inc.
In 1971, Nexus was established as High Hopes Rehabilitation Center. By 1974, it evolved into a more specific recovery program, which included therapy and life skills training, and housed 17 women. The agency was renamed Nexus from the Greek word meaning “link” and resolved to become a women’s link to sobriety, independence and dignity. In 1991, Nexus opened a program for adolescent girls and expanded the women program to 40 beds. In 2007, Nexus served more than 1,800 women, women with children and infants, adolescent females, and pregnant women seeking recovery from addiction. Nexus is one of the few drug treatment facilities in North Texas that accepts women and their accompanying children, and the only treatment facility that can accept an adolescent girl with a child. Giving women the ability to seek treatment while staying connected to their children is beneficial for the entire family, and in turn, the community.
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North Texas Food Bank
The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) is a nonprofit hunger relief organization that distributes donated, purchased, and prepared food through a network of feeding programs in 13 North Texas counties. The NTFB supports the nutritional needs of children, families, and seniors through education, advocacy and strategic partnerships. The NTFB has grown steadily since it’s founding in 1982 to become the 8th largest food bank in the U.S. They are now rated first in Texas for pounds of food distributed to nonprofit organizations feeding the hungry. In their 26 years of service to the community, they have provided families and individuals with access to 309 million meals. Of every dollar donated, 97 cents goes directly to hunger relief programs. On a monthly basis, they serve an average of 50,000 families through their Member Agency pantries and provided 435,000 meals and snacks through on-site meal programs.
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Our Friend’s Place – Therapeutic Group Home
In September 1985, Our Friends Place was incorporated as a non-profit organization. In December 1987, Our Friends Place opened its Therapeutic Group Home to meet an unmet need in the community – a home for girls of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. The program’s design provides long-term residential services to girls in need of therapeutic care, unable to live with their families and who are often homeless. The success of the Group Home and the recognition of another need – young women with very limited financial and/or emotional support – led to the opening of the Transitional Living Center (TLC) to help young women reach economic self-sufficiency.
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Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Inc.
Planned Parenthood has long been recognized as a leader in the field of reproductive health. In 2008, PPNT served more than 88,000 patients through a network of 29 health centers. Although clinical and medical services remain a cornerstone of the agency’s operation, PPNT’s educational programs are equally strong. The Education Department staff members are experienced and talented sexuality educators who work effectively with diverse topics and populations and are able to identify and respond creatively to the educational and training needs of those PPNT serves. They provide group educational programs throughout the community, basing the curriculum on the needs of the participants. Locations are varied and include schools, colleges, faith-based organizations, PTA’s, alternative school settings, youth and adult criminal justice settings, shelters, treatment facilities, and social service settings.
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Promise House
In the early 1980’s, Lover’s Lane United Methodist Church (LLUMC) conducted a research project to determine which demographic in the Dallas area had the greatest unmet need for service. They discovered homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth, especially in the Oak Cliff area, had the greatest need for help in all of Dallas. As a result, LLUMC devoted their energy to this underserved population: they bought a blue house in Oak Cliff and Promise House was born in 1984. Since its inception in 1984, Promise House has become recognized throughout the Dallas community as being a leading service provider and advocate for homeless teens. They are the only agency in Dallas to offer free on-site psychiatric care to homeless teens. Promise House collaborates with area agencies such as Parkland Homes, Stewpot Dental Clinic, DISD, and North Texas Food Bank. Promise House has been recognized on the floor of the US House of Representatives as “an exceptional program” which not only gives young people “a safe place to stay,” but also “a lifeline, and a chance to change their outlook and situation”.
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Resolana

Resolana is a nonprofit organization that works to give incarcerated women the tools to enhance and rebuild their lives, maintain recovery, and become responsible citizens. It provides women with a safe learning environment that supports self-expression and growth, teaches coping and life skills, and connects them to resources that support re-integration into family and community.
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The Right Door
The Right Door is a case management model program for addiction and alcoholism in Pitkin County. Due to the great success they’ve had, the program is being expanded in Eagle and Garfield Counties nearby as well as into other parts of Colorado and other states. In 2008, they had 13,856 contacts and served over 400 individuals. They work with the local hospitals, law enforcement, regional mental health centers, local government and child and family services. Certified addiction counselors and trained volunteers provide case management to those seeking to recover from addiction and/or alcoholism.
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Safe Havens of Kornerstone

The Safe Havens of Kornerstone is licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to train and license both foster and adoptive families.  Foster care provides placement in licensed foster homes for children or adolescents who need protection from abuse and neglect.  Their mission is to provide the children with the care, support, and individual attention they need to heal and develop into mentally and physically healthy youth.  Kornerstone provides child placement services ages 0-17, for levels of care 1, 2, 3, and 4.  The average age of placements has been 10.3.  Children are accepted for placement only from DFPS. 
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The Senior Source

The Senior Source, Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas has been taking care of older adults for 46 years. During that time, it has remained focused on its mission to improve the quality of life of older adults in the greater Dallas area. The Senior Source serves over 30,000 mature adults and offers a spectrum of service for the active retirees who want meaningful volunteer work to the frail elderly who are totally dependant on others. The Senior Source provides programs such as: Elder Support Program, Guardianship and Money Management Program, Nursing Home Ombudsman Program, Senior Companion Program, and Senior Employment Source. The Senior Source has continuously responded to older adults’ needs by incorporating new services.
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Shared Housing Center, Inc.

Shared Housing, Inc. provides housing and needed transitional services to critically at-risk populations: a multi-cultural, intergenerational population, who are seeking to elevate themselves from homeless or near homeless situations to lifestyles of relative self-sufficiency.  Ninety percent of single parent families have women as head-of-household.  These families experience poverty, lower education, less employable skills, more health problems and children with higher incidents of emotional and behavioral problems that interrupt the school class. The struggles, defeats and patterns of frustration will be passed on to the children, who will experience broken-homes, higher drop-out rates in school, continue to live in poverty and also establish themselves as single parents.  Shared Housing is determined to offer both an educational structured program and parent-child programming.
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Southwestern Diabetic Foundation

Grant provided financial assistance to two children to attend Camp Sweeney.  Camp Sweeney is one of the largest and most effective diabetes educational facilities in the world.  This is a residential summer camp for children with diabetes.  Every summer they serve over 800 children with diabetes.  The program includes daily teaching sessions by physicians, nutrition and dietary instruction, the training and refinement of the management of blood glucose levels and insulin injection techniques, along with the demonstration of the proper balance of diet, exercise, and insulin.
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Special Care and Career Services

Special Care and Career Services Early Childhood Intervention Program helps babies and toddlers, age birth to three, with disabilities such as vision impairments, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, and Spina Bifida reach their age-appropriate developmental milestones through physical, occupational, and speech therapy.  These children learn to walk, talk, play and function as independently as possible during the ages where research shows they are most able to adopt and learn.  Also, SCACS has a Supported Employment Services program, which helps adults with mental retardation, traumatic brain injury, and other cognitive disabilities participate in comprehensive employment services to obtain and keep jobs in the local community.
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The Stewpot
The Stewpot’s mission is to offer haven for homeless and at-risk individuals of Dallas, providing resources for basic survival needs as well opportunities to start a new life.  Clients represent a multi-cultural, multi-racial population, and each day, between 650 – 700 people are assisted through services that range from hot meals to medical care to job training.  Other programs are:  Gun Buy Back program, Community Court program, and Open Art Class.  Annual Community Concerts offer clients the opportunity to hear quality music.
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Suicide & Crisis Center

The Suicide & Crisis Center is a volunteer driven, non-profit agency that offers a variety of mental health services.  The primary objective of the agency is to empower people in crisis to help themselves.  The programs the agency provides are intended to identify warning signs of suicidal behavior, facilitate the return to a pre-crisis state, enhance growth through effective problem solving and ultimately prevent self-destructive behavior.  The Suicide & Crisis Center offers a survivor’s grief program directly responding to this unique, tragic loss.
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Texas Baptist Men
A grant was given to Texas Baptist Men for disaster relief in Gainesville, Texas during flooding.  Texas Baptist Men were able to provide hot dinner meals, provide shower and laundry units for people to use, sent in mobile Clean Out and Chain Saw Unit, and Child Care Unit that would take care of children while parents were trying to attend to details of putting their lives back together.  TBM does not charge anyone for their services.
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The Turning Point
The Turning Point (Rape Crisis Center of Collin County) was established by a social worker who observed that victims of sexual assault need additional counseling and emotional support beyond the initial crime report. The agency originated in 1982, in conjunction with North Texas Medical and McKinney Police Department, to ensure that survivors of sexual assault had a professional support system to help them in their recovery. Since that time, the agency has grown to provide a comprehensive range of services for victims of sexual violence, from a crisis hotline to hospital accompaniment to intensive counseling for those who were sexually abused as children. The agency has been recognized for its innovative counseling approach that recognizes sexual violence as a form of trauma and seeks to help victims develop stronger.
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Wednesday’s Child Benefit Corporation

Wednesday’s Child Benefit Corporation nourished the healing process in foster children so each child can have a childhood as normal as possible, and grow into a confident, caring adult.  WCBC provides assistance, ranging from adoption fees to tutoring, medical expenses and winter coats, summer camp, and college scholarships.  WCBC’s mission is to provide assistance to abused, neglected, or abandoned foster or recently adopted foster children and their families with the goal of making a long-term positive impact on their lives.
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The Wilkinson Center

The Wilkinson Center programs serve low-income families for whom hunger is a reality and homelessness is always a possibility.  TWC is a multi-service agency with programs such as Food Pantry, CareerWorks, Computer Learning Center, Safe Haven After-School Program for At-Risk Children, and ArtWorks for seniors and children. TWC continues to serve their clients in the most effective and efficient way possible as they move toward
economic self-sufficiency.
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The Women’s Foundation of Colorado
The Women’s Foundation of Colorado was funded operating expenses ($5,000) as well as they gave to 5 Colorado non-profits which they have vetted and support that serve both women and girls. The programs are: The Yampah Teen Parent Program ($5,000) that provides a nursery for 24-30 teen mothers so they can stay in high school; Latina Initiative ($10,000) in Denver that provides resources and training opportunities to develop the strength and self-sufficiency of Latina women; Warren Village ($10,000) in Denver for an Employment Lab for single moms of low income to achieve sustainable economic self-sufficiency; STRIDE ($10,000) near Denver to help families develop a self-sufficiency plan and then find the resources to complete their plan. Their clients have seen their annual incomes grow from an average of $6,000 to over $25,000; Bright Futures Foundation ($10,000) in Vail to support their Light of Hope Project to break the cycle of violence by providing caseworker assistance and weekly workshops in both English and Spanish focusing on Life Skills and Self-Sufficiency to include stress management, assertiveness training, building healthy relationships, child care opportunities, job openings, resume writing, job skills training, interview training, and financial management.
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Human Rights

9 to 5 Association of Working Women
9 to 5 Association for Women support women in leadership development and nonpartisan civic engagement work. Their goal is to train more low income women as leaders and to bring more women into the electoral process through registration, education and motivation to vote. Their mission is to improve the workplace for women and to strengthen the ability of low-income women in Colorado to win economic justice. They conduct “Know Your Rights” and leadership development workshops provided through low-income service providers and welfare-to-work programs.
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ALARM, Inc.
ALARM was founded in 1994 in response to a crisis of Christian leadership in Africa. ALARM trains African religious and community leaders: including government officials, in areas of leadership, peace building and conflict resolution, reconciliation, peer and community mediation, pastoral ministry and community transformation. ALARM conducts economic empowerment projects for women in Africa and has enabled thousands of women to break the cycle of poverty and begin earning necessary income to support their families. In Dallas, ALARM serves several local churches through providing training in cultural issues and translation assistance to ministry teams serving African refugees in the Dallas area. ALARM played a key role in SMU’s Does Dallas Care initiative, aimed at raising awareness in Dallas about the crisis in Darfur and participated in its Human Right’s Symposium on Violence against Women.
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Children at Risk
Children at Risk is a research and education organization dedicated to addressing the root causes of poor public policies affecting children. In 2006, Children at Risk launched its new Public Policy & Law Center (PPLC)—the only such center of its kind in Texas. Given the fact that children cannot vote or influence the legal decisions that impact them the most, it is important that we, as child advocates, look out for their best interests. Children at Risk launched its human trafficking outreach campaign in 2007 and has made significant strides in raising awareness of this issue and strengthening the laws surrounding it.
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Colonnades Theatre Lab
The Colonnades Theatre Lab, USA is a 501(c)(3) not for profit interdisciplinary Arts and Educational Foundation established in 1973 and operating continuously for the last 34 years. It has been a training center for actors, an interdisciplinary research laboratory for perceptual learning, a playwright and actor’s workshop and development center for innovative child development practices and advanced techniques for ensemble training, leadership training and conflict resolution techniques. For its dramatic material, it concentrates on identifying situations around the world where there is, or once was, struggle for justice, for human rights, for basic human dignity. It will find such material either in current events, history or literary fiction and develop productions, either film or theatre, that celebrate the possibility of perceptual transformation and conflict resolution.
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DFW International Community Alliance

DFW International Community Alliance (DFW Int’l) is the portal to the international North Texas, creating a network of over 1,600 North Texas internationally-focused civic, community and educational organizations that focuses on communication, educational and cultural events, advocacy, analysis and research, health and community building. Their mission is to build mutual understanding and respect by linking diverse international cultural communities. Through their web-generated communications systems and series of Guides for New Americans, in partnership with libraries and school districts, they provide referral services for ethnic individuals and New Americans who are seeking assistance and information on health, education, social services, ESL classes, shelters, and scholarships.
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Human Rights Initiative

Human Rights Initiative is the only agency in North Texas to provide free legal representation to those individuals who have suffered human rights abuses in their homeland and have credible asylum cases.  HRI provides client services to abuse refugees, consisting of case management and advocacy to access medical and dental care, psychological services, clothing, housing and food.  HRI respond to other legal needs, i.e., cases of human trafficking and violence against immigrant women and immigrant children.
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SMU Human Rights Education Program

The mission of the SMU Human Rights Education Program is to educate and train future generations of human rights advocates and responsible citizens of the world. The goal of the program is to promote all of the rights (civil, political, social, cultural and economic) enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by providing an interdisciplinary human rights curriculum, supporting human rights research and travel and offering internships, seminars, and conferences relating to human rights themes.
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Women’s Funding Network

Founded in 1985, the Women’s Funding Network is a world-wide membership organization of women’s and girls’ funds that make positive social change through local, national and international grant making and leadership programs. The Network has grown from 20 United States based funds to 145 funds located around the globe and has granted over $60 Million per year for women’s and girl’s programs. WFN supports its member funds and advances responsible philanthropy through tailored leadership programs, innovative organizational and evaluation tools, and opportunities for collaborative action that leverage collective investment for maximum social change impact. WFN, as a global network and a movement for social justice, strives to accelerate women’s leadership and invest in solving critical social issues from poverty to global security, by bringing together the financial power, influence and voices of women’s funds. Women’s funds are founded on 4 defining values: equality, diversity, empowerment of women and girls, and commitment to social justice. WFN promotes and fosters values of diversity and equality through its services, collaborative initiatives, and leadership and movement building work at every level.
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Arts & Culture

Arts Magnet Building Campaign

$500,000 grant given over a 5-year period to the Arts Magnet Building Campaign for the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  This was a matching dollar for dollar grant.  This grant entitled naming the Dance Wing after the Embrey Family Foundation.  The Advisory Board of the Booker T. Washington High School supports the students, faculty, programs, facilities of the school, and promote arts education in DISD.  In 2006, Booker T. was recognized as one of the top five arts high schools in the nation.  Ninety-nine percent (99%) of students graduate, of which ninety (90%) go on to higher education.
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ArtSpirit

ArtSpirit embraces spiritual seekers and challenges them to use their creative talents in alternative and traditional forms of worship, scholarship, and service to the world.  Some of the programs include book discussions; Lockhart Prison Ministry – workshops led by individuals; Genesis Women’s Shelter – collection of supplies needed for women; Multimedia original theatrical production – Truth Be Told:  Women in Prison – money raised to start a documentary on women in prison and their children.
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

In 2008, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performed in 43 United States cities, Guatemala, and Italy. They are the only major dance presenter on Colorado’s Western Slope. They also operate the only dance school affiliated with a professional ballet company and have approximately 350 students attending. They award $20,000 in need-based scholarships to dance students each year in the Roaring Fork Valley. In addition, they operate Ballet Folklorico as an outreach program to enrich the lives of area children. This program helps integrate the cultural diversity of our community. ASFB strengthens the cultural vitality of the Roaring Fork Valley.
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Big Thought - Creative Solutions

Provides art classes and administers arts education programs, youth arts opportunities.  Also, support programs in schools, libraries, child care centers, juvenile detention facilities, early learning programs.  Big Thought provides approximately 600,000 unique learning experiences for children, families, and educators each year.
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Big Thought - DALI

Supports Family and Community Learning and system capacity components of the Dallas Arts Learning Initiative (DALI), which include Creative Solutions. This initiative is a groundbreaking public-private partnership between Big Thought, the Dallas Independent School District (DISD), the City of Dallas, and a range of Dallas Community-based organizations, including local agencies, service organizations, museums, arts organizations, the juvenile justice system, and nature and science institutions. DALI will raise the quality and access to learning for children and families in the Dallas community. The initiative will increase the amount and quality of creative education in DISD elementary schools, create neighborhood networks that coordinate activities, and position resources for the creative teaching of science, math, social studies, and language arts. The overarching goal of DALI is to ensure that participation in creative learning becomes a major factor in helping children and families in Dallas thrive.
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Children Chorus of Greater Dallas

In 1997, after three years of planning, eight local musicians realized their dream of creating a nonprofit children’s chorus for the Dallas area. Their vision was to build a chorus that would offer area children the opportunity to excel as choral musicians, learn about and sing extraordinary music, and perform with well-regarded musicians and musical organizations. Seventy boys and girls in grades four to eight were invited through auditions to become the first CCGD class, and performed eight times that inaugural season. CCGD’s mission is to provide Dallas-area young people the experience of artistry and excellence through choral singing-in a group that reflects the diversity of Greater Dallas. For CCGD, diversity has geographic, economic and ethnic components. They have several active programs focused on improving diversity, and they have had good results in all three components. They sing with the DSO, and the Dallas Opera. They also sing at many civic and cultural events, give several concerts at DISD elementary schools each season, and sing at special events such as conventions and weddings. They were recently selected to perform at the 2009 American Choral Directors Association National Convention - one of the highest honors in choral music (300 choruses applied and 20 were accepted, including just two children’s choruses).
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Dallas Children’s Theater

Dallas Children’s Theater teaches more than 60,000 students through arts-in-education programs.  In-school programs integrate drama, literature, language, arts, social studies and history.  DCT artists-in-residence work with over 3,000 students at more than 14 sites, including “at risk”, special needs, and TAGS schools, and communities centers.  After-School Drama Clubs serve 20 after-school satellites for positive alternatives taught by professional theater artists, culminating in the creation and performance of a play based on the group’s shared life experiences. 
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Dance Council

Dance Council promotes and supports dance in the DFW and North Texas areas, serving as a central information agency and network for all aspects and activities of dance.  Dance Council provides artistic, educational, and cultural opportunities to people of all ages, races, and cultures, ensuring a positive image for dance throughout the community through special events, educational programs, and communication.   We funded the Adaptive Dance at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital which targeted the under-served population of children ages 6 to 13 with physical and/or developmental disabilities, normally ignored by the dance community.
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Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre

Founded in 1993 to educate children in the performing arts.  Technical theatre skills, stage management, choreography, and directing opportunities have been available.  The Young Artist Training Program offers young performers the opportunity to study with working professional artists.
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Junior Players

Junior Players provide free theatre arts programs in local recreation and cultural centers, schools, and social service agencies, providing on-going participatory experiences in the arts.  Thru their programs, they provide positive role models, increase self-esteem, literacy and communication skills for Dallas-area children whose financial and/or cultural backgrounds might impede their access to the arts.
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The Parish Episcopal School

The Parish Episcopal School provides private education for a diverse student body.  Request was for their newly established (in 3rd year) drama program.  In 2004, 250 students participated in three scheduled productions. 
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Texas Equal Access and Project X Theatre

Texas Equal Access Fund’s mission is to promote reproductive justice for women in North Texas by helping them to lower economic barriers to abortion access for low-income and disadvantaged women, and to inform and educate the public about reproductive justice issues. Since 2005, the TEA has provided funding to assist in 1,354 women to terminate unwanted pregnancies. The TEA Fund is an affiliate member of National Network of Abortion Funds. Despite the number of women and families whose lives have been affected by the decision to end a pregnancy, abortion is a topic largely untouched by theater and film. Art has traditionally been a medium for social critique and a catalyst for community dialogue.

The mission of Project X Theatre is to revitalize North Texas’ cultural landscape by creating and presenting diverse art forms through innovative collaboration of theatre, dance, music, film, and beyond. Since November 2002, Project X Theatre has presented a diverse array of intimate performances, workshops, and gallery exhibits that reflect the company’s eclectic aesthetic and hosted diverse artists and companies.

1 in 3 is a play about the reality of abortion in women’s lives developed and produced by the Texas Equal Access Fund and Project X Theatre. 1 in 3 has the potential to generate a new national dialogue around abortion, shifting the conversation from the political controversy to the personal reality. The play is structured as a series of scenes and monologues that converge when the characters come together in the waiting room of an abortion clinic.
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Texas International Theatrical Arts Society

Texas International/Theatrical Arts Society (TITAS) is committed both in artistic and educational programming.  TITAS is the leading presenter of international Music and Dance for North Texas.  As the leading presenter of International music and dance artists, TITAS is able to provide unmatched and unique educational opportunities.  TITAS programs are targeted to underprivileged schools, minority populations, and community centers.  Additionally, TITAS provides thousands of dollars in free tickets to senior centers and economically challenged communities to shows during their regular season. 
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Theatre Quorum

Theatre Quorum’s mission is to produce plays of literary merit that portray the emotional struggles of everyday people in everyday life and to focus on educational opportunities for the community.  Man’s search for dignity and self-worth is the central theme.  There are many ways to expose students and adults to the human rights issues.  Theatre is one such venue.  Theatre Quorum is working to bring a production to SMU Bob Hope Theatre in conjunction with the Women’s International Peace Conference and the Human Rights Program.  Theatre Quorum has won numerous awards since being funded in 1998.
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Thunder River Theatre

Thunder River Theatre provides an Educational Outreach Program free of charge to area schools to help students develop a better understanding of the human experience through theatre and literature. They also provide, free of charge, the Latino Theatre Initiative to help build important bridges with Latinos in the community. They offer Drama and Theatre classes to children of all ages and do not turn any child away. They instead offer scholarships to help underwrite the tuition for low-income families. They also have free Literary Nights where their actors read works including biographical and anecdotal material in an interesting and theatrical presentation. Also, they offer a full season of professional theatre, offering reduced price tickets to all students and teachers in the Roaring Fork Valley school districts.
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WaterTower Theatre

WaterTower’s commitment to the community is reflected in their mission: To open minds with a diverse mix of plays and educational programs that inspire to experience and embrace live theatre. WaterTower promote a more inclusive community through vivid works that nourish progressive social values, explore the human condition, and celebrate the diverse voices that make up the community, offering people of North Texas the opportunity to come together and reflect on the place they call home. A committed and intrepid producer of new work, the theatre has presented 5 world premiere productions and 13 regional premiere productions. WaterTower Theatre produces a wide range of dramatic literature, comedies, dramas, plays and musicals. Combing Broadway-quality productions with the beauty of an intimate playing space, WaterTower Theatre provides experiences that are powerful and insightful, intense and uplifting. The very essence of the theatrical experience is to provide an opportunity for people to connect to different points-of-view and, as a result, positively impact our community.
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The Writer’s Garret

The Writer’s Garret developed Writers-in-the-Schools (WITS) program, which sends writers into schools to share their passion for reading and writing.  WITS program works with mostly at-risk students to convince them that they are competent readers, proficient writers, and unique individuals fully endowed with the stuff of success.  During both in-school and after-school sessions students learn the art of creative writing within a curriculum, which supports the state-mandated, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.  WITS works with schools, teachers and parents in Dallas, Plano, Richardson, Desoto, and Mesquite.
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Education

American Indian College Fund
American Indian College Fund gives grant money for scholarships to Colorado Native Americans who attend a tribal college. Unmet financial aid for Native students will exceed $50 million in 2009. The average scholarship awarded is $750 to the tribal college and most of the scholarship students are single mothers. The courses taught enable the students to get associate degrees that will be useful in stimulating the economy back on their reservation and 82% of these students go on to pursue higher education.
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Arts Magnet Building Campaign

$500,000 grant given over a 5-year period to the Arts Magnet Building Campaign for the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  This was a matching dollar for dollar grant.  This grant entitled naming the Dance Wing after the Embrey Family Foundation.  The Advisory Board of the Booker T. Washington High School supports the students, faculty, programs, facilities of the school, and promote arts education in DISD.  In 2006, Booker T. was recognized as one of the top five arts high schools in the nation.  Ninety-nine percent (99%) of students graduate, of which ninety (90%) go on to higher education.
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Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Fort Worth, Inc. has been serving Fort Worth and the surrounding communities since 1910. The Catholic Ladies Aid Society founded Catholic Charities to meet the needs of children and the poor in the Fort Worth Community when other services were not available to the most vulnerable members of society. Today, the organization is comprised of nearly 30 programs that meet a variety of needs. Their programs fall into six categories--Child Welfare Services, Family Services, Immigration and Refugee Services, Health Services, Housing Services, and Disaster Preparation and Response Services. In 2006, they served 91,575 clients in Tarrant County and the surrounding areas. Three out of four of the families they serve support their families on an annual income less than $17,000; well below the federal poverty line. Many of the clients experience the stress of deciding between paying for a needed prescription and paying the electric bill. They are committed to working together to end poverty through direct services and advocacy. Catholic Charities truly believes that all people have the right to live without these impossible decisions.
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Chase’s Place

Chase’s Place is a private school serving students ages 5 to 14 with developmental disabilities, including mental retardation, pervasive developmental disorder/autism, traumatic brain injuries, and neurological disorders.  Class size is limited to six students.  CP’s goals are in the areas of self-care, behaviors, motor skills, verbal communication, home/living skills, non-verbal communication, functional academics, social skills, and leisure skills. 
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Communities in Schools
In the late 1960’s, with the assistance of private and public support, Cities in Schools, a child-centered charitable organization, began in a Harlem, New York storefront. It is now the largest stay-in-school network in the country, serving children under the name Communities In Schools. In 1979, CIS, with national offices in Alexandria, Virginia, began working with children in Texas. In 1985, three major corporations provided seed money and in-kind support to establish Communities In School Dallas Region, Inc. (CISDR) as an independent charitable 501(c)(3) organization. CISDR programs began under the leadership of a “loaned executive" from Southwestern Bell in three Dallas Independent School District sites. CISDR has approximately 125 professional staff members on each of its 61 sites in 10 school districts throughout the greater Dallas region. The campus staff has an office on each CISDR campus and is present before, during and after the school day. Every year more than 90% of the CISDR case-managed students stay in school and are successful.
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Dallas Concilio of Hispanic Service Organization
The mission of the Dallas Concilio is to advocate and enhance the quality of life for Hispanics through community partnerships. The organization created a network of agencies that could serve the needs of the Hispanic population in Greater Dallas. The Concilio recognized that a natural development of its mission was to create and implement programs in response to the gaps in services as voiced by the network of agencies. These include Education which provides parent involvement programs and Community Health which focuses on diabetes awareness, nutrition and wellness, physical activity, and resources for the uninsured. The Dallas Concilio serves the Dallas-Fort Worth area, primarily in Dallas County, targeting low-income Hispanic families.
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Dallas Women’s Foundation
The Dallas Women’s Foundation promotes women’s philanthropy and raises money to support local programs that help women and girls and build stronger communities. With the shared commitment to improve the lives of women and girls, we will be impacting our community and also making a powerful statement. The Dallas Women’s Foundation funds:
Alley’s House, Battered Women’s Foundation, Brighter Tomorrows, Child & Family Guidance Center, Circle of Support, Galaxy Counseling Center, Jewish Family Services, Resolana, The Senior Source, Shared Housing Center, Inc.
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East Dallas Community School
East Dallas Community School (EDCS) is an early childhood learning center with programs to meet the needs of children from birth to age nine. The school was founded in 1978 for the specific purpose of proving that all children, regardless of race or income, can succeed in school when they start young and involve parents. EDCS has expanded to a 7-classroom campus serving just over one hundred low-income, inner-city children. In August 1999, EDCS opened a second campus, a public charter school that replicates the academic programs and success of the privately funded model. Together, the two campuses of EDCS serve more than 250 children and their parents. EDCS is located in the urban neighborhoods of deep East Dallas, an area ranging from Fair Park to the northern edge of the Santa Fe railroad tracks. It is a high crime area, and has been a significant piece of gang turf.
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Education is Freedom
Supports Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s Igniting Opportunity for the Children of Dallas initiatives in partnership with Education is Freedom, Chesapeake Energy, and the Dallas Foundation. There are five programmatic initiatives that will address the disparities that currently exist in school readiness and educational outcomes among Dallas Independent School District (DISD) students. Builds college scholarships for low-income students and supports the strengthening and expansion of the services of EIF in low-performing DISD high schools. Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, Chesapeake Energy, EIF, and The Dallas Foundation have partnered to make a university education possible for minority and socially disadvantaged high-school students in Dallas.
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Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse

The GDCADA is the foremost community-based organization in North Texas offering substance abuse prevention and intervention services.  They are the clearinghouse of expertise and information available to both the general public and professionals working in the field throughout Dallas County and portions of Collin and Denton counties.  Their mission is to reduce the incidence and impact of alcohol and other drug abuse through information, education, prevention, assessment, referral, and advocacy. 
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Literacy Instruction for Texas (LIFT)

Literacy Instruction for Texas was founded in 1961 by the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Dallas Section, in response to their concern over the illiteracy rate among adults in the Dallas area. Their goal in establishing LIFT was to create and support an organization that would offer free and easily accessible classes so that functionally illiterate adults could learn to read and write English. DISD, under the direction of Dr. W. T. White, provided classroom space in 32 schools for night time classes. The doors opened on June 5, 1961 with 250 volunteers. Six hundred adult learners were taught during the first year. Growth in the number of participants has been phenomenal. Between 2004 and the end of 2007, the number of adult learners participating in LIFT programs increased by 292% from 2,103 to 6,141. By January 2009, the number of adult learners reached 8,081, a 32% increase over 2008. In 2006, LIFT was awarded the Excellence in Board Governance by the Center for Non-Profit Management. In 2008, LIFT launched GED Direct, a first of its kind distance learning project that makes GED preparation available to adult learners in suburban and smaller urban areas through LIFT’s website.
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Notre Dame School

Notre Dame School was established in 1963 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame as a private, non-profit school to meet the unique educational needs of children with mental disabilities.  Notre Dame School’s mission is to educate persons with mental disabilities and facilitate their integration into society.  Notre Dame serves children in the mildly to moderately retarded ranges (I.Q. OF 70 or less) ages 6 to 21.  Most of the children’s families are from middle to low-income.  The student-teacher ratio is a low 5.1, a necessary element in educating this population.
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Texas Hope Literacy
Founded in 1997, Texas HOPE Literacy, Inc. is a faith-based organization dedicated to empowering the at-risk population to become productive citizens in today’s world by working with the state’s prison population and helping the offenders achieve skills that will allow them to pursue careers or higher education upon their release. Offenders are not assessed for learning disabilities and, therefore, are un-remediated in the prison school environment. Since its inception, Texas HOPE has helped hundreds of offenders, many of whom have demonstrated learning disabilities, learn to read and write and to become productive citizens post-release. In its 11 years of existence, Texas HOPE has expanded from a single classroom at Hutchins State Jail to its current capacity of 80 offender tutors (peer educators) serving over 500 offenders at four different Texas prisons. Texas HOPE Literacy has worked hard to develop a far-reaching interfaith Christian network of professional volunteers that serve in the program. These (85+) professional volunteers provide students with job related and life skills instruction, leadership training, parenting classes and 12-Step Recovery programs, along with several other programs.
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Today Marks the Beginning
The organization was founded in 2005 by Karen Blessen, Barbara Miller, and Bette Buschow, following the transformation of a piece that Ms. Blessen, an artist and writer, wrote for the Dallas Morning News about AIDS in Malawi into a play whose benefit performances raised more than $40,000 for aid to villages in that country. While in Africa, Mary Kathumba, village elder and champion of AIDS orphans in Mpinganjira, Malawi remarked, “Today marks the beginning.....of a relationship between you and me."
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University of North Texas
The UNT Foundation provides support to the College of Engineering at UNT, which in turn organizes Robocamp. Robocamp is co-hosted by UNT and The Stewpot for a special two-week intensive program in downtown Dallas. Robocamp offers young girls exposure to hand-on science, math and technology learning. Founded in 2003, the College of Engineering currently offers 17 degree programs including bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. UNT is a student-centered, public research university located in Denton, Texas. As one of Texas’ largest universities, they offer 99 bachelor’s, 104 master’s and 49 doctoral degree programs within the university’s 11 colleges and schools. UNT is the flagship of the UNT System, was founded in 1890 and enrolls nearly 35,000 students.
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Vickery Meadows Learning Center
Vickery Meadow Learning Center (VMLC) is dedicated to improving English literacy levels among non-English speaking adults by providing programs in communications and life skills. They do so in the belief that the ability to understand, read, write and speak English contributes to independence, productivity and the overall well-being of adult learners, their families and the greater community. Approximately 36,000 people live in the 2.68 square mile area which is bounded by Royal Lane, Central Expressway, Northwest Highway, and Abrams/Skillman. Most are immigrants and refugees. The Vickery Meadows area is an extremely high-density, low income neighborhood. Today, VMLC provides English literacy, pre-GED, GED, EL Civics and Citizenship classes at a variety of times on multiple levels to over 550 adult students a year. The Center also provides early childhood education to 150 of the young children of the daytime students each year.
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The Winston School

The Winston School is a coeducational college preparatory school serving approximately 230 bright students who learn differently in grades 1-12.  These children struggle with a traditional classroom.  Winston students discover their gifts and learn to work with their learning differences.  Winston offers a low teacher:student ratio and individualized academic strategies for each child. 
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Animal Services

Colorado Animal Rescue

Colorado Animal Rescue is dedicated to sheltering homeless animals and providing support for the pet-owning public. Both the City of Glenwood Springs and Garfield County have entered into contracts with C.A.R.E to safely shelter abandoned and abused animals. They have a successful feral cat program, the Street Cat Coalition, that traps/neuters/releases feral cats throughout Garfield County. C.A.R.E. has been asked to respond to events such as safe lodging during fire and hoarding situations and finding foster homes for hundreds of kittens and puppies. C.A.R.E. has developed a strong working relationship with the Veterinary Technology Programs at Colorado Mountain College. C.A.R.E. developed a Shelter Management Certificate Program that allows veterinary technician students to gain some exposure and experience in the animal shelter world.
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Operation Kindness

Operation Kindness was established as an alternative to shelters that euthanize or put to death unwanted and stray animals after a period of time if homes cannot be found for them.  After 12 years in Garland, they moved to a larger donated building in Carrollton. The grant we gave helped with the purchase of new washers and dryers.
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SPCA of Texas

Grants were given for the spay/neuter clinic and for the development of the new facility. This facility is the SPCA’s principal service site for animal adoption, animal welfare, and humane social and educational programs. The new building offers more than three times the space of the former building. The new SPCA policy of not euthanizing animals makes the additional space even more vital. It is located near the site of the new City of Dallas Animal Shelter and the new location promises to become a hub for companion animal resources serving the city, the county and surrounding communities. SPCA had more than 14,000 adoptions in 2006.

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Environment

Keep Irving Beautiful

Keep Irving Beautiful is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization battling the increasing litter in Irving.  Their mission is to reverse the trend to litter and increase recycling by implementing grassroots-based strategies aimed at helping citizens organize to change behaviors (normative systems) on a systematic, sustained basis.  KIB’s programs address the seven traditional sources of litter which include: pedestrians, uncovered trucks, construction and demolition sites, improperly handled residential waste, commercial waste containers, motorists, and loading and receiving docks.
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Lee Park and Arlington Hall

$50,000 grant given for lighting in Lee Park.  Lee Park is one that is both accessible and inviting to residents and tourists alike.  In a fast pace urban city, the calming and uplifting value of parks and green space is of importance not only to pedestrians, but to motorists as well.  Benches have been added for the convenience of the visitors to the park.  Tree lighting will be added strategically in sections of the park to welcome use in the day and provide more safety during the evening hours. Access will be achieved primarily through the creation of both entry portals and new sidewalks.  This historic park is being transformed into a beautiful setting after years of neglect and decay.  The Park is also an excellent recreational resource for children and families, and it is ideally located to serve as a site for field trips and recreation for nearby schools serving inner city children.  The renovation of Lee Park will preserve green space in an increasingly urbanized area.
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The Embrey Family Foundation was founded in 2004 by J. Lindsay Embrey (1925-2005)