Past Grantees

Middle School Dropout Prevention

Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star: School-Based Mentoring Program and a truancy match support specialist ($100,000)
Children’s Defense Fund: Safe and Supportive Schools Collaborative ($5,000)
Communities in Schools of Houston, Inc.: Middle school dropout prevention programming, mental health services and Attendance Program ($150,000)
Disability Rights Texas: Safe and Supportive Schools Collaborative ($5,000)
Earl Carl Institute for Legal & Social Policy Inc.: Safe and Supportive Schools Collaborative ($5,000)
Fifth Ward Enrichment Program: General operating support ($100,000)
Houston Independent School District Foundation: School Discipline Reform: Substance Use Diversion Program ($60,000)
Houston reVision: Keeping Kids in School Program (125,000) and Safe and Supportive Schools Collaborative ($5,000)
HYPE Freedom School, Inc.: General operating support ($60,000)and strategic planning ($30,000)
Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees (PAIR): Global Learners programs ($75,000)
Protex: Network for Progressive Texas: Safe and Supportive Schools Collaborative ($5,000)
ProUnitas, Inc.: General operating support and marketing video ($115,000)
Spring Branch Education Foundation: School Discipline Reform: National Equity Project Coaching and Training ($50,880)
Texans Care for Children, Inc.: Safe and Supportive Schools Collaboartive ($5,000)

Community Health

El Centro de Corazon: Shared Strategic Financial Service Model ($8,312.50)
Houston Area Community Services, Inc.: Shared Strategic Financial Service Model ($8,312.50)
Houston Community Health Centers, Inc.: Shared Strategic Financial Service Model ($8,312.50)
Primary Care Innovation Center: General operating support ($100,000)
Spring Branch Community Health Center: Shared Strategic Financial Service Model ($8,312.50)
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: Implementation of CareMessage at We Can Do More initiatives partner clinic sites ($46,029)

Mental Behavioral Health

Center for Success and Independence, Inc.: Recreation Alternative Program ($95,000)
NAMI Greater Houston: General operating support ($30,000)
Teen and Family Services: Sunnyside Alternative Peer Group ($100,000), HISD Education First Program, Kashmere Garden Program and Key Middle School Program($60,000)
Unlimited Visions Aftercare, Inc.: Recovery and Wellness Community Center Project ($100,000)

Health Advocacy

Supportive Housing

Harmony House, Inc.: General operating support ($20,000)
New Hope Housing, Inc.: General operating support and Resident Services Program ($75,000)
Salvation Army, The: Young Adult Resource Center housing program ($125,000)
SEARCH Homeless Services: Housing Navigation Program ($75,000)
The Women’s Home: General operating support ($100,000)

Job Training/Placement

Alliance for Multicultural Community Services: Community Cloth Social Entrepreneurship Initiative ($50,000)
Arc of Greater Houston, The: Supportive Employment Roundtable ($40,000)
Capital IDEA – Houston: General operating support ($75,000)
Genesys Works: General operating support ($50,000)
SER-Jobs for Progress of the Texas Gulf Coast, Inc.: General operating support ($100,000)

Dual Strategy

Systems Change

Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries: Infrastructure Development Grant Program (IDGP) ($335,000); Program to Advance Capacity Elements (PACE) ($30,000); General operating support ($160,000) and Hurricane Harvey relief efforts for ministries ($50,000)

St. Agnes Academy: Bennie Pellerin Green Scholarship ($1,000)
William Marsh Rice University: Jones Graduate School-Partners grant in lieu of membership dues ($1,000)

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations: Grant in lieu of membership dues ($1,830)
Philanthropy Southwest: Grant in lieu of membership dues ($2,000)
The Philanthropy Roundtable: Institutional basic contribution ($500)

TOTAL 2017 GRANTS