Grant Highlights
Human Services
The independent, private nonprofit organization is dedicated to strengthening public schools to work for all children. Assisted by this multiyear grant for general operations, the association is providing three years of training and technical assistance to nine nonprofit community-based organizations serving families in south Texas.
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
The church-affiliated center takes a five-pronged approach toward reducing the incidence of domestic violence and sexual assault, supporting survivors, and helping to break the intergenerational cycle of abuse. Rising demand and reduced funding have created challenges for the organization, which is using this program-related investment – a low-interest loan over 36 months from the Community Relief Fund, which offered program-related investments to high-performance human-service organizations that were providing food, shelter, and other emergency services during the economic crisis – to maintain current service levels.
Established in 1973 to serve Hispanic farm workers and their families, the multiservice organization now provides bilingual social, medical, and educational services for the Latino community and other vulnerable residents. Challenge-grant money is being used for the acquisition of a new main site facility, consolidating all service components under one roof.
The church-initiated safety-net provider for low-income children and families operates a homeless shelter and food pantry, provides financial assistance, and offers after-school and overnight programming for young people. This combined challenge and operations grant allows the agency to purchase and renovate a facility, make improvements to an existing facility, and purchase three mini-buses.
Through its continuum of residential, health, counseling, work force-development, and educational services, the nonprofit organization transitions at-risk youth and families from crisis to safety and success. This grant provides funding for construction of the East Austin Youth and Family Resource Center, which expands programming and meets the growing need for critical services.
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
The nonprofit organization, owned by the six Minnesota synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, offers adoption, financial, refuge, counseling, housing, and other services to children, youth, families, seniors, and disabled and disadvantaged clients at 325 locations around the state. Funding strengthens programs focused on financial counseling, senior nutrition, homeless youth, and housing services.
Low-income homebound elderly and disabled adults received hot, nutritious meals and other services from the volunteer-supported organization, which also feeds hungry children in the Austin area. The renovation and expansion of the main client-services facility, supported by this challenge grant, enables the meals program to reach additional residents.
Mercy Housing delivers a comprehensive array of human development services, including housing, emergency assistance, life-skills training, employment readiness and placement, and financial and asset-development counseling. This grant funds a project to acquire, renovate, and open a new housing and multiservice center serving 7,000 additional individuals annually.