Our Community Outreach Partners
Schools
We work with schools to provide for students in need as well as enhance their learning environment. We’ve given away hundreds of coats and shoes over the years to needy pre-K students, worked with counselors to provide monetary assistance to needy families, participated in matching fund drives with PTAs to purchase school equipment, and worked with other organizations to supply hygiene products.
Veterans
We’re committed to honoring the service of our veterans. In addition to working with Veteran’s hospitals to assist with patients’ transitional needs, we work with a unique program that trains service dogs for veterans suffering from PTSD. The program uses high school students to teach the dogs social skills prior to their intensive training. Over the past five years, we’ve sponsored over a dozen dogs.
Foster Care
We understand that it takes a special person or family to open their home to a child who has gone through a traumatic experience. We help provide hygiene items for CPS employees to provide to children as they are placed in a new home. We also help with back to school drives, provides support to adoptive/foster families with special needs, and adopts unpicked “angels” over the holidays.
Food Banks
Over 800,000 people in North Texas are “food insecure” (hungry). That’s one in six people and includes over 300,000 children. We provide and package food for local school children over school holidays through a local non-profit, provides donations of requested food items food banks of all sizes, and even provides gift cards to sponsors of small community pantries in front yards that anyone may visit.
Churches
We know that if somebody is in need, their church will know about it. We accept direct referrals from churches and partner with them by donating holiday food baskets by providing gift cards to cover perishable items for the families. Additionally, we work with church-sponsored pre-schools and community centers to help them realize their community outreach goals.
Homeless Shelters
We partner with homeless shelters, as well as organizations who work with shelters, to provide needed items, such as hats, scarves, blankets, gift cards and personal hygiene products. We like to partner with those who want to give back. We also work with children’s groups and other volunteers to prepare packages for the homeless for distribution in conjunction with coat drives, census activities, and more.