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Happy Sunday, Friends! North Texas Giving day is an amazing event this Thursday put on by Communities Foundation of Texas that supports over 2000 local charities. Each charity listed on the North Texas Giving Day page is eligible to participate based solely on their 501c3 status. Additionally, you may find information on given charities by searching for organizations with the Guidestar Logo. I've curated a list of 20 agencies that are supported by our group members or that I've had personal experience with. Please feel free to comment and introduce our group to organizations you are familiar with as well.
1. Metroport Meals On Wheels, Inc.
http://www.metroportmow.org
Metroport Meals On Wheels, Inc. is a nonprofit, grassroots volunteer advocate for the elderly and those in need through home-delivered meals,senior center lunch programs and other support services. MMOW is "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" to alleviate hunger, isolation, and loneliness in our communities, and to foster the independence, worth, and dignity of each individual we serve.
2. CAMP SUMMIT INC
http://www.campsummittx.org
The mission of Camp Summit is to provide barrier-free outdoor experiences that promote personal growth and foster independence for children and adults with disabilities.
For 69 years Camp Summit has developed and delivered outdoor camping experiences for children, adults and seniors with disabilities. Motivated by the fact that our campers and their families have few, if any, options for overnight and stay-away recreational experiences that also improves their independence, confidence and social skills, Camp Summit offers our programs to develop these skills and freedoms for our campers. A critical component of our program is eliminating barriers faced by this special population. We provide a totally barrier-free and adaptable program for all types of disabilities plus, we address financial burdens, which are a very real barrier prohibiting participation. Camp Summit successfully eliminates financial barriers for our campers through our Campership and Financial Assistance Project. This project provides sliding scale fees and camperships to 90% of our campers ensuring that families can provide the life changing experience of camp for their loved one with a disability, regardless of any financial constraints. Camp Summit relies on the generosity of the community to secure funding for our very critical Campership and Financial Assistance Project. Camp Summit is proud to announce that we have realized a long time goal to own our own camp. With our recent move in 2016, to our “forever home” in Paradise, Texas we will have an immediate 25% increase in our capacity. This will also allow us to serve a greater number of campers and reduce our waiting lists which have continued to grow for the past several years. As we settle into this new camp our goal is to use our building momentum to complete the final fundraising and achieve the campaign goal of $13.6MM.
3. Grapevine Relief And Community Exchange (GRACE)
As a steward of God's blessings and resources in the community, GRACE demonstrates compassion for those less fortunate by providing assistance to individuals and families in crisis and guidance toward self-sufficiency.
4. COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH TEXAS INC
The mission of Communities In Schools of North Texas is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
All programs serve students who are at-risk of dropping out of school. Specific needs include funding to expand college readiness programs, homeless intervention services, case management services for middle and high school students, and funding for intensive group programs for students in high school who are at-risk of dropping out of school.
5. SOS Local
We are committed to developing sustainable solutions to the problems that at-risk children face everyday. We are committed to being a voice that calls a community to rally around these solutions.
We have a back to school event every year for the children of Northwest and Keller ISDs. We are need of funds to help us buy school supplies that were not donated, and to help us pay for the park where we will have the event.
6. Victory Therapy Center
With you every step of the way, Victory Therapy Center provides therapeutic riding, physical therapy and counseling services by utilizing relationships that our clients form with horses. Our services provide the opportunity for improved quality of life for individuals of all life stages and a variety of physical and emotional needs.
Victory Therapy Center is need of funding for all of our programs and volunteers. Please visit our website and look at our wish list for specific items for our horses.
7. Bob Jones Nature Center
The mission of the Bob Jones Nature Center is to restore and preserve the Eastern Cross Timbers ecosystem through environmental leadership, education, and compatible outdoor activities.
The Bob Jones Nature Center is currently in Phase I of development. Our current needs include expanding our nature classrooms, restoring our prairie habitat, and restoring our pond.
8. Community Storehouse
Community Storehouse is dedicated to the education and well-being of low-income children in our community. We are the only children's charity in NE Tarrant County focused on "keeping children in the classroom."
Funds to support the over 12,000 children in our local community needing educational and well-being assistance.
$2,500
2016 Board of Directors
If Community Storehouse reaches $5,000 in donations on North Texas Giving Day, the 2016 Board of Directors will donate $2,500 towards our mission.
9. Cook Children's
Our Promise: Knowing that every child's life is sacred, it is the promise of Cook Children's to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Cook Children’s promotes family-centered care as part of our philosophy by recognizing the importance a family plays in support of the hospitalized child, as well as the role Cook Children’s plays in support of the patient and family. The Child Life department works with patients and families to help them cope with the extra challenges of living with a chronic illness or even comprehending a procedure or treatment the patient is faced with. We realize that creating a sense of normalcy for patients and providing experiences they would otherwise not have help them learn vital skills and gain independence – Camps for Kids is a wonderful program that accomplishes just that. Camps for Kids has a strong emphasis on peer, parent and sibling support for children with various chronic illnesses, disorders and disabilities. Prior to the first camp being established, camping was not an option for these children because of the impact their diagnosis had on their daily lives. Camp for Kids provides a camp experience in a medically safe environment where these kids can fish, play ball, climb a ropes course, have campfires and just be kids. This may be the first time a child or family has met another child with a similar illness and can gain the support that is so often needed from peers who are going through similar challenges. Camp for Kids provides many benefits to the campers and the community including: learning new skills, building socialization and self-esteem skills, challenging them to try new things, gaining knowledge about their illness and discovering they are not alone in treatment. In 2016, 1077 patients will attend the 24 various camps offered by Cook Children’s. Camps for Kids is a donor funded program ensuring that all campers’ fees are provided. Each camp is targeted to provide memorable experiences to campers with a similar diagnosis. Join us by providing these deserving children an experience that will impact them for the rest of their lives.
10. Gladney Center for Adoption
Creating Bright Futures through Adoption. This year, we intend to provide greater support to more expectant mothers experiencing unplanned pregnancies, bring more families together through adoption (we placed 304 children into permanent, loving families in FY 2015; a total of over 30,000 since our founding in 1887), advocate on behalf of and recruit more adoptive families for older children and children with special needs waiting in Texas foster care and in orphanages in countries where we serve, train our adoptive parents even better to set their families up to have connected relationships with healing and trust, and further educate the public about what adoption is like today.
Your generous partnership will help the Gladney Center for Adoption continue to serve and empower expectant mothers, be there for the next generation of children needing forever families, and bring families together through adoption. You will support Gladney’s domestic and international adoption programs, as well as related services, including expectant mother care, transitional care for babies, and humanitarian aid. $2,500 • Can provide 1 month of groceries for expectant mothers in Gladney’s residential maternity dorm. • Can help cover the cost of preparation training for 25 families adopting children from foster care and international orphanages. • Can help cover the cost of sending a team of volunteer professionals to visit children with special needs in international orphanages, provide developmental screenings, and advocate to find adoptive families for them. $1,000 • Can provide quality prenatal care for 1 expectant mother. • Can help recruit 1 family to adopt children from foster care. • Can cover 1 month of living expenses for 2 children with special needs in an international orphanage. $500 • Can provide 1 month of prenatal vitamins for 10 expectant mothers. • Can provide 3 car seats for transitional care families. • Can help with capacity-building improvements at an international orphanage. $75 • Can provide 1 sonogram for 3 expectant mothers. • Can provide 4 weeks of diapers for 1 baby living with a transitional care family. • Can provide new shoes for 7 children living in an international orphanage.
11. NEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES
NewDay builds children's lives by helping their fathers and others gain the tools they need to redirect their lives. Clients come from the Courts, Child Welfare, and community agencies. NewDay's goal is to place families on a path to healing. Ultimately, children are the heart of every NewDay program.
12. Peace Officers' Angels Foundation
Peace Officers' Angels Foundation provides emotional and short term financial assistance to our Texas Law Enforcement following a serious or life-changing line of duty injury. POAF's success relies on strong community partnerships standing behind our peace officers and their families.
Our law enforcement needs us more than ever. This noble profession is needed by you and I working together with our love, our support, and our respect. POAF is dedicated to those who serve and protect our communities and our mission is to assist those critically injured in the line of duty. The physical pain of that injury is only the beginning. We need kind donations to help us assist our injured. We cannot do this alone. We are only supported by our communities. Every dollar is a direct investment in the ongoing recovery of our peace officers. The road to recovery is always a tough journey not only physically, but mentally, emotionally and financially. Your help goes far beyond any financial support you can provide. Without your kind heartedness, our peace officers would not know how many people are out there who care what happens to them. They know they are not alone, and that's the greatest gift you can give them! We strive to strengthen our public awareness and community relationships. We need your help.
13. Pregnancy Help 4 U
Helping women and men in crisis pregnancies find life affirming options through compassionate care, equipping them with resources to succeed in life, while sharing the love of Christ.
14. Presbyterian Night Shelter
Guiding the Journey from Homeless to Home
Presbyterian Night Shelter gladly accepts donations of new and gently used clothing, household items, toys, toiletries, and furniture.
15. SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY
SafeHaven's mission is to end domestic violence through safety, support, prevention and social change. SafeHaven is the largest and most comprehensive agency in Tarrant County providing services at no cost to domestic violence victims. SafeHaven provides 24-hour care at two emergency shelters in Arlington and Fort Worth to families fleeing violent situations. The holistic shelters provide a comprehensive continuum of care for the women and children who would otherwise be forced to remain in dangerous situations. Trained bilingual advocates respond 24 hours a day to victims who call SafeHaven’s toll-free crisis hotline. There is free access to counseling in both English and Spanish for those who are currently experiencing domestic violence, as well as those who have previously been victims of domestic violence. When leaving a shelter, SafeHaven provides survivors with a safety net of services and support to establish and sustain self-sufficiency. Through housing programs, families can move to a secure environment while simultaneously obtaining life skills, education, and improved employment opportunities. SafeHaven’s professional education staff also provides domestic violence prevention programs to high school students through Tarrant County. Through our outreach, education, support services and prevention programs, we are making progress to reduce and end domestic violence.
- $5 provides play therapy supplies for children residing in our shelters. - $30 feeds a mother and her children three meals and two snacks at our shelter. - $75 provides a woman with emergency shelter for 24 hours. - $500 sends five children to Camp Heart for one weekend. - $1,000 provides a family one month of transitional housing. - $1,500 provides 30 survivors with one hour of counseling.
16. THE CLUBHOUSE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS
To provide a safe and fun place for teens and young adults with mild/moderate intellectual/physical challenges -- an opportunity for education, socialization and independence in a recreational atmosphere.
It would be amazing if we could payoff our building mortgage - approx. $340K. It is possible folks! Read on! We started with 4 young people in 2006. We leased a1727 sq. ft. portion of a commercial building and grew to 12. In 2013 we raised $100k in 3 months and put down a deposit for 7,151 sq. ft. facility. Our very own building [and the banks]. The community called it a "A GOD THING." That it was. In 3 1/2 months we grew from 12 teens and young adults with intellectual/physical challenges to 41. Amazing! Our young people continue to age on us and if we could payoff our mortgage we could look into expanding to provide for our aging population because they have no place to go and we can continue to support and help them expand their life and educational experience: Education, Socialization and Independence. MISSION STATEMENT: The Clubhouse for Special Needs provides a safe and fun place for teenagers and young adults with intellectual/physical challenges. It provides opportunity for education, socialization and independence in a recreational atmosphere. YOU can help us pay off our mortgage by giving– whether small or great! For every $1,000 Donated [collectively] Darlene will color a portion of her long hair neon pink! For every $10,000 [collectively] Darlene will color a portion of her long hair neon green. If everyone shares with their friends, we could easily turn Darlene’s head into a neon flower!!!!! SHARE & GIVE If YOU are brave and want to join Darlene in coloring your hair accordingly, just let us know so we can include you in the publicity. NOTE: All funds raised will be used according to the needs of the organization. Our verse: "...exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think..." Ephesians 3:20a.
17. Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County
Founded in 1888, Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County is a united Christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for homeless women, men and families in North Texas. UGM-TC is funded entirely by the generosity of the community and offers a residency program for individuals looking to maximize their potential and transition out of homelessness. Through the programs and services we provide, individuals develop essential life skills to become independent, productive members of our community. We are God’s healthy place to end homelessness one person at a time.
The New York Times best-selling book “Same Kind of Different As Me,” released in 2008, based on a true story of unexpected and life-changing friendship that all started at UGM-TC is being made into a movie by the same name. The movie will premiere in February 2017 featuring actors such as Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, and Renee Zellweger. On January 17, 2017, UGM-TC will host an evening fundraising event at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Ron Hall, the co-author of the book and producer of the movie, will speak, along with some star-studded cast members. UGM-TC needs sponsors and attendees to spend the evening with us, celebrating the upcoming movie release and helping to raise money to continue the work UGM-TC is doing for the homeless in our North Texas community. Immediate Needs: Men and Women’s razors, underwear (all sizes), work boots, twin sheets, jeans (sizes 32 and 34), and protein nutrition drinks
18. The Net FW
The Net is a nonprofit in Fort Worth that exists to empower the city to restore dignity to those in poverty through community & relationships. Our goal is to see the people we serve walk in freedom and joy as whole individuals.
19. Meat Fight, Inc
Meat Fight's goal is to bring hope and happiness to the lives of those living with Multiple Sclerosis.
Meat Fight's original program, Meat Bike, gives bikes to people in the DFW area who are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. We currently have a wait list of 24 people who need bikes. Each bike and starter kit (which includes a road bike, helmet, shoes, clips, water bottles-- everything you need to get started riding) costs us $1,000. We are fundraising to get every single one of these people on a bike as soon as possible. Meat Bikers receive their bikes, and then join our bike team, which rides in several bike rides throughout the year. Our team is now over 130 riders. Regular cardio is proven to help improve symptoms of MS. Our Meat Fight bike team is a rolling support group, riding towards a cure for MS.
20. The Birthday Party Project
The Birthday Party Project Brings JOY to homeless children through the MAGIC of Birthdays! We host monthly birthday parties at homeless and transitional living facilities across Dallas-Fort Worth. We provide background checked birthday enthusiasts (volunteers) to help us throw a themed birthday party for all the kids celebrating a birthday that month, as well as all kids staying at that agency. Our parties are complete with games, activities, cupcakes, favor bags, gifts for birthday children, and FUN! Not every child has a home, but every child has a birthday!
volunteers, gift cards, birthday gifts, birthday supplies
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