The Junior Leaguers of Dallas were busy queen bees yesterday! They started off the morning making loads of nonprofits happy campers at the JLD headquarters at the “handout” of ca-ching sponsored by Bank of Texas. They doled out $1M worth of grants and the number of JLD volunteers who will share the love with the following 38 “agencies:”
- Arts & Cultural Enrichment total 281 volunteers and $77,685:
- Booker T. Washington High School — 21 volunteers and $23,000
- Dallas Arboretum — 63 volunteers and $12,000
- Dallas Museum of Art — 53 volunteers and $4,700
- Dallas Zoological Society — 37 volunteers and $21,985
- Perot Museum of Nature & Science — 86 volunteers and $16,000
- S. National Archives & Records Administration — 21 volunteers and $0
- Education total 75 volunteers and $99,400:
- Communities in Schools — 13 volunteers and $6,000
- Dallas Heritage Village — 11 volunteers and $4,000
- Friends of the Dallas Public Library — 13 volunteers and $15,000
- Notre Dame School — 11 volunteers and $30,000
- The Rise School of Dallas — 11 volunteers and $36,000
- Texas Discovery Gardens — 16 volunteers and $8,400
- Family Preservation total 177 volunteers and $85,888:
- Baylor Health Care System Foundation’s Twice Blessed House — 30 volunteers and $12,500
- Big Thought — 11 volunteers and $4,000
- Promise House — 24 volunteers and $19,000
- Ronald McDonald House of Dallas — 71 volunteers and $15,388
- St. Philip’s School and Community Center — 18 volunteers and $25,000
- Trinity River Mission — 23 volunteers and $10,000
- Health total 255 volunteers and $168,160:
- Cancer Support Community North Texas — 48 volunteers and $22,470
- Children’s Health — 38 volunteers and $30,765
- Equest — 45 volunteers and $35,000
- Methodist Dallas Medical Center — 28 volunteers and $16,000
- Parkland Health & Hospital System — 16 volunteers and $22,300
- Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas – The Senior Source — 25 volunteers and $26,245
- Texas Health Presbyterian Foundation — 15 volunteers and $5,280
- Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children — 40 volunteers and $10,100
- Poverty Intervention total 129 volunteers and $137,217:
- Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity — 36 volunteers and $30,000
- Interfaith Housing Coalition — 17 volunteers and $31,717
- New Friends New Life — 14 volunteers and $13,000
- North Dallas Shared Ministries — 14 volunteers and $35,000
- North Texas Food Bank — 31 volunteers and $17,000
- Vickery Meadow Learning Center — 17 volunteers and $10,500
- Violence Intervention 215 volunteers and $166,700:
- Community Partners of Dallas — 39 volunteers and $30,000
- Dallas CASA — 35 volunteers and $27,600
- Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center — 48 volunteers and $25,000
- Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support — 49 volunteers and $30,000
- Our Friends Place — 20 volunteers and $28,700
- The Family Place — 24 volunteers and $25,400
But there was still more. They also provided support to Dallas nonprofit efforts “through key initiatives and ‘Signature Projects,'” including the following:
- Grants for Innovative Teaching (GFIT) — a Signature Project of the JLD designed to encourage and support excellence in teaching by awarding grants of up to $2,000 to Dallas ISD educators for innovative projects that otherwise would not be possible within school budgets, with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects,
- Kids in the Kitchen (KITK) — a nationally recognized health program that reaches more than 650 kids and parents annually with an 8-week curriculum that teaches the basics of nutrition, healthy meal preparation and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
- Women LEAD (Learn. Excel. Achieve. Dream) —Established in 2013 in collaboration with Mary Kay, Women LEAD (Learn. Excel. Achieve. Dream) is the League’s newest scholarship program, which assists female high school students in pursuing their dreams of higher education and creates opportunities for future women leaders.
- Community Assistance Fund is the distribution of monetary grants in response to emergency short-term funding needs of qualified nonprofit agencies and groups. The Fund offers grants that are limited to $3,500 and may be given at any time during the year.
- Provisional Projects.
But the JLD-ers weren’t finished with the spreading of goodness. They celebrated the sponsors … ah, but that’s a story for another day.