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Community Foundation Initiatives
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We offer opportunities for donors to collectively make an impact on the region’s most pressing needs. Explore the possibilities, whether you are giving as an individual, family or business.
North Texas Community Foundation supports animal welfare and equine therapy efforts in our region through the Helen D. and R.E. (Bob) Wallace Foundation Fund and the Anita Berry Martin Memorial Fund.
ToolBox Grants address organizational effectiveness, leadership development, or operational efficiency through one-time, transformative investments.
Our Better Together Fund deploys resources to local organizations serving those who have been the hardest hit by disasters in our community.
The Fleetwood Memorial Fund provides immediate financial assistance to certified Texas law enforcement or fire protection personnel who are injured or killed in the line of duty.
The Fund to Advance Racial Equity provides support to nonprofits and municipal entities working to achieve a more equitable community for all.
WORTH empowers the next generation to change North Texas for the better.
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American Heart Association
About the Organization
The American Heart Association fulfills the mission to be a force for a world of longer, healthier lives, by bringing scientific research to life in clinical healthcare guidelines, trust-worthy patient and caregiver resources, evidence-based policies and equity-focused community programming.
About the Project
Interestingly, 4 out of 5 Cardiac Arrests happen at home. Effective bystander CPR provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival. However, only 32% of cardiac arrest victims receive CPR from a bystander. Through a unique matching opportunity, a grant to fund CPR kits and training, members of the community can be trained and equipped to be lifesavers.
Funding Needs
- $5,000 funds 13 CPR kits and supports the AHA to continue CPR training & research.
- $2,500 funds 7 CPR kits and supports the AHA to continue CPR training & research.
- $1,000 funds 3 CPR kits and supports the AHA to continue CPR training & research.
Project Budget
$10,000
Number Served by Project
50,000
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Amphibian Stage Productions
About the Organization
Amphibian Stage Productions’s goal is to support bold storytelling, artists, and equitable access to performing arts.
About the Project
Serving the Fort Worth performing arts community for 10 years, Amphibian Stage Productions is looking to enhance the patron experience by making improvements to the lobby with a new front door, new furniture to replace well-used benches, stools, and cocktail tables, improving exterior signage and upgrading the lobby signage.
Funding Needs
- $2,500 for new exterior signage.
- $3,000 for a new sound system in the lobby and upgrades to hearing assistance equipment.
- $6,000 for new furniture to replace the current lobby tables and chairs.
Project Budget
$60,000
Number Served by Project
6,000
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Baylor Scott & White All Saints Health Foundation
About the Organization
Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth, an affiliate of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), is an award-winning full-service hospital dedicated to providing for the health care needs of the community. Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of individuals, families, and communities.
About the Project
Baylor Scott & White – Fort Worth (BSW-FW), along with hospitals across the nation, is experiencing a nursing shortage. To address the crisis-level nursing shortage, BSW-FW must hire, train, and retain hundreds of new graduate nurses over the next two years to fill the vacancies and rebuild a strong healthcare workforce. The goal is to increase the number of graduate nurse residents from 50 to 180 per year.
Funding Needs
- Grants of $1,000 or more are appreciated.
Project Budget
$4,290,000
Number Served by Project
360
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Big Bend Conservancy
About the Organization
Big Bend Conservancy’s mission is to preserve, enrich, and conserve the unique resources of Big Bend National Park. To date, BBC has contributed over $4.2 million to the park in direct aid, projects, and endowment funds.
About the Project
The Terlingua Creek Land Acquisition project is a legacy project for BBC –a unique opportunity to purchase and protect almost 4,000 acres along the western boundary of Big Bend National Park. This land will be part of a 6,000+ acre park boundary adjustment presented to Congress. Also, the land hosts ecological, paleontological, and historical areas of significance vital for conservation and protection.
Funding Needs
- Grants of $1,000 or more are appreciated.
Project Budget
$780,000
Number Served by Project
600,000
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County
About the Organization
Since 1926, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County’s mission has been to enable all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. The Club experience ensures that success is within reach of every young person who enters the doors.
About the Project
The Music & Youth program uses music as a tool to attract and foster creativity and self-expression in youth. The program provides a safe place to learn and grow away from the culture of drugs, gangs and violence that is prevalent in target communities. Youth are allowed to express themselves, establish friendships, empower themselves to take creative risks and pursue their passions.
Funding Needs
- $4,000 to replace ceiling and sound tiles, and fresh paint throughout the Music & Youth studio.
- $6,000 to update security features throughout Music & Youth studio.
- $8,000 to remove and install new carpet throughout Music & Youth studio.
Project Budget
$135,000
Number Served by Project
100
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Center for Transforming Lives
About the Organization
The Center for Transforming Lives (CTL) disrupts the cycle of poverty for women and their children through homeless services, early childhood education, economic mobility and clinical counseling. CTL’s services are trauma-informed and two-generational, ensuring women and children achieve self-sufficiency, stability, and emotional well-being.
About the Project
At 13 childcare centers, CTL prepares children for K-12 school, while providing affordable child care for parents. While children are in CTL’s care, parents improve their employability, income, and financial stability through education that moves the family from poverty to prosperity. 90% of the project is funded by Early Head Start and requires community-based matching dollars.
Funding Needs
- $1,000 provides the matching dollars for a child to attend year-round educational childcare.
- $2,000 underwrites two meals and a snack for 700 children in 13 childcare centers for a week.
- $5,000 ensures that 20 children have the school supplies, crafts, books, and toys needed for the year.
Project Budget
$11,200,000
Number Served by Project
1,325
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Communities In Schools of Greater Tarrant County
About the Organization
For 30 years, Communities In Schools of Greater Tarrant County (CISGTC), works with students to improve attendance, behavior and academic success that leads to graduation. CIS licensed Social Workers serve vulnerable students and their families to provide intensive case management to eliminate barriers to success.
About the Project
About 90% of students in Tarrant County are eligible for free lunch. The same students do not have the means to acquire the necessary school supplies to be successful in the classroom. Communities In Schools seeks to provide backpacks full of needed tools to build a foundation for learning.
Funding Needs
- $1,000 provides a backpack full of learning supplies for 40 students.
- $5,000 provides a backpack full of learning supplies for 200 students.
- $10,000 provides a backpack full of learning supplies for 400 students.
Project Budget
$125,000
Number Served by Project
5,000
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DRC Solutions
About the Organization
DRC Solutions provides critical services of essential, evidence-based solutions to house people experiencing homelessness, set the stage for housing, or satisfy unmet needs in the community. DRC Street Outreach team locates people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, completes assessments for housing, helps gather required documentation, and connects them with appropriate housing interventions.
About the Project
The DRC Street Outreach team frequents remote campsites not easily accessed. A vehicle with off-road capability would allow for more efficient and greater coverage of homeless encampments. Additionally, this vehicle will allow the team to transport individuals and families to their lease signing the day they move into a new home.
Funding Needs
- Grants of $1000 or more are appreciated.
Project Budget
$35,000
Number Served by Project
1,500
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Kids Who Care Performing Arts
About the Organization
Kids Who Care (KWC) Performing Arts is more than a theatre company. Through the alliance of performing arts, entrepreneurial leadership and global caring, KWC produces creative and confident kids that become the next generation’s achievers. KWC is wholly committed to creating an environment for everyone.
About the Project
KWC inspires youth across North Texas by bringing theatre performances and leadership workshops to the places where they are: schools, Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCAs, community events, and more. These performances and workshops are often the first exposure to the life-changing possibilities for kids in performing arts. One KWC interaction can set a kid on the path to success.
Funding Needs
- $5,000 will support a full year of Kids Who Care Touring Company Performances in North Texas.
Project Budget
$5,000
Number Served by Project
44,000
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LVTRise
About the Organization
LVTRise helps residents of the Las Vegas Trail community in Fort Worth to improve their lives and the overall quality of the neighborhood. Focus areas include safety, housing, education, employment, workforce development, health and wellness, revitalization and economic development.
About the Project
The Western Hills Pyramid Parent Engagement Program will increase student and parent engagement, school pride & educational success to lower truancy. Engaged parents promote the importance of education, transforming the school environment and the neighborhood. Parents will be supported through LVTRise services to provide stability and increase their child’s success.
Funding Needs
- $2,000 for parent engagement meetings to create and encourage engagement with parents and staff.
- $3,500 covers the cost of supplies for teachers, schools and students to promote success.
- $5,000 funds events to encourage parent engagement, school pride and student attendance.
Project Budget
$30,000
Number Served by Project
230
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New Leaf Community Services
About the Organization
Led by First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth, New Leaf Community Services creates permanent supportive housing solutions in Fort Worth. Permanent supportive housing provides long-term housing for persons with disabilities who have been chronically homeless. When coupled with case management services residents maintain their housing.
About the Project
Following the success of the 4444 Quail Trail housing community, New Leaf Services is building a new 48-unit permanent supportive housing community on West Camp Bowie Boulevard. Case management will be provided on-site along with behavioral health services. Initial funds from the City of Fort Worth and local philanthropy are supporting the project, with additional philanthropic dollars needed to bring the project to completion.
Funding Needs
- Grants of $1,000 or more are appreciated to support the remaining $250,000 needed for the completion of the structure and funding of initial operations.
Project Budget
$7.3M
Number Served by Project
48+
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Panther City Feral Cat Coalition
About the Organization
Panther City Feral Cat Coalition seeks to help the feral cats of Greater Forth Worth by preventing the population growth of feral cats through a trap, neuter, vaccinate and release (TNVR) program and to prevent the spread of disease among colonies of cats.
About the Project
Funding is needed to help offset the cost of TNVR caused by the increase in the number of vouchers requested. Also, the City of Fort Worth’s animal shelter is not able to participate in providing veterinary services for injured or ill feral cats—PCFCC needs support to cover the rising cost of medical treatments.
Funding Needs
- $2,000 will provide neutering and vaccination for 100 cats.
- $1,000 help us provide medical treatments for 10 injured or ill cats.
- $1,000 will help us provide colony feeders with food.
Project Budget
$4,000
Number Served by Project
200
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Presbyterian Night Shelter
About the Organization
For Fort Worth’s homeless, Presbyterian Night Shelter is the place where guests begin their journey from homeless to home–the mission and the guiding strategy for all PNS services. Through programs and by providing access to critical services and resources, guests are positioned to successfully transition to a safe, stable, and independent lifestyle.
About the Project
Presbyterian Night Shelter’s Family Services Program in the Morris Foundation Center, is designed to move families out of homelessness and into permanent housing. Services provided emphasize crisis alleviation, self-empowerment, nutritional and behavioral health, parenting skills, early childhood interventions, domestic violence and trauma awareness, goal planning, and vocational training.
Funding Needs
- $25,000 to provide kitchen supplies for 150 families exiting homelessness.
- $10,000 to provide school uniforms for 100 children.
- $5,000 to provide soft furnishings for families exiting homelessness.
Project Budget
$768,903
Number Served by Project
704
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River Legacy Foundation
About the Organization
The River Legacy Foundation’s (RLF) mission is to educate the next generation of environmental stewards using the resources of River Legacy Park and Nature Center. Through its environmental education work, RLF provides opportunities for recreational interaction and also preserves and enhances the Trinity River’s unique ecosystem as a natural resource.
About the Project
River Legacy Foundation is the only North Texas organization that offers extensive environmental education programs for students from pre-kindergarten through high school. These classes include daily field investigation experiences throughout the school year for students from local public, private and charter schools.
Funding Needs
- Grants of $5,000 or more are appreciated to improve exhibits to enhance educational opportunities.
- Grants of $5,000 or more are appreciated for security additions.
Project Budget
$149,500
Number Served by Project
60,000
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Friends’ gifts ensure North Texas Community Foundation is a lasting resource to improve the community’s well-being by:
- Convening key groups in our community
- Developing community knowledge and insights into effective nonprofit organizations
- Advocating for effective collaboration
- Developing community-wide initiatives
Community Leadership
In addition to awarding grants, North Texas Community Foundation supports special initiatives that address local challenges and encourage smart philanthropy. All of our projects are developed in direct response to needs identified for the North Texas region.
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Together, we can cultivate a more vibrant and resilient community where all North Texans can thrive.
Amy Radcliffe
Associate Director of Donor Relations
