On October 13, 2016, TSAHC’s Board of Directors approved the 2016 Texas Foundations Fund nonprofit partners. Each partner was awarded a matching grant of $12,100 in 2016 and $13,250 in 2017.
Below is a full list of the 2016 nonprofit partners. Click on the + sign next to each partner’s name to learn more about the services they will provide with their matching grant.
Austin Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. In its 30 year history, Austin Habitat has repaired 260 homes and built 409 new homes, making it the largest creator of affordable homeownership in Central Texas. Austin Habitat will use its matching grant to fund the Home Repair Program and provide 30 critical home repairs in 2016 and 32 in 2017. All families served will have a physical or mental disability.
Program Type: Critical Repair
Counties Served: Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Travis
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Avenue CDC’s mission is to build affordable homes and strengthen communities. They develop safe, quality housing accessible to low- and moderate-income families. Avenue CDC will use its matching grant to fund the “Rebuilding Northside Together” home repair program, which will provide critical home repairs for very low-income homeowners with disabilities in the Northside neighborhood of Houston.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Harris
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
The mission of Blackland CDC is to foster a safe, inclusive community that strives for social equality by facilitating projects and activities that bring neighbors together, by preserving and enhancing the stock of affordable housing in the neighborhood, and by providing supportive programs for members of the Blackland community to enhance their health, wellness, and financial stability. Blackland CDC will use its matching grant to fund its supportive housing program that provides mental health counseling and employment opportunities to residents with disabilities.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
County Served: Travis
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Buckner Children and Family Services, Inc. (a subsidiary of Buckner International) was originally founded in Dallas in 1879 as an orphanage. Today it is a highly diversified agency providing social service programs and ministries to disadvantaged and displaced children and families. Buckner has successfully operated the Lufkin Family Pathways program since 1997. It is the oldest supportive housing program operated by Buckner in Texas. Buckner’s matching grant will support activities under the Lufkin Family Pathways program including case management and other supportive services helping single parent families maintain housing stability while pursuing their education.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
County Served: Angelina
Priority Served: Rural Communities
Founded in 1990, Green Doors provides housing and supportive services to some of Austin's most vulnerable citizens. Green Doors will use its matching grant to fund supportive services for people with disabilities. This will include access to case management, educational assistance and transportation.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
County Served: Travis
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Easter Seals Central Texas, Inc. has been a leader in providing housing services for people with disabilities and their families for more than 20 years and has offered critical home repairs through the Critical Home Accessibility Modification Program (CHAMP) since 2003. Matching grant funds from the Texas Foundations Fund will support the CHAMP program and provide critical repairs for people with disabilities in rural communities.
Program Type: Critical Repair
Counties Served: Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Coryell, Fayette, Gillespie, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays, Lampasas, Lee, Llano, Milam, Travis, Williamson
Priorities Served: Persons with a Disability, Rural Communities
Foundation Communities was founded in 1990 with the goal to house low-income families and end homelessness in our communities. The Permanent Supportive Housing and Children’s Home Initiative programs provide case management and other services to help residents overcome homelessness and maintain housing stability. Matching grant funds from the Texas Foundations Fund will support these programs and be used to serve residents with mental and physical disabilities.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
Counties Served: Travis, Williamson
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Galilee Community Development Corporation is a nonprofit dedicated to helping low-income residents of the San Angelo area find and maintain decent and affordable housing. Since 2012, the Helping Hands program has provided critical home repairs, including accessibility modifications and roof repairs, to 40 households each year. Galilee CDC will direct its matching grant funds to serve homeowners with disabilities under the Helping Hands program.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Tom Green
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Habitat for Humanity Smith County (HFHSC) believes every family deserves the opportunity to live in a safe and healthy environment. Since 2009, the ReHabitat program has repaired or modified over 320 homes. Matching grant funds from the Texas Foundations Fund will support the ReHabitat program and fund critical repairs for homeowners with a disability.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Smith
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Habitat for Humanity South Collin County’s purpose is to ensure everyone has a decent place to live. To serve their mission, they construct new, affordable homes and provide critical home repairs. The organization will utilize its matching grant to provide critical home repairs specifically for homeowners with a disability, located in rural communities.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Collin
Priorities Served: Persons with a Disability, Rural Communities
The mission of Habitat for Humanity of Williamson County (HFHWC) is to bring communities and people together to create and sustain homeownership opportunities in Williamson County. HFHWC's home repair program provides critical home repairs for homeowners earning less than 50% of the median income. Matching grant funds from the Texas Foundations Fund will support the home repair program and provide critical repairs specifically for homeowners in rural areas of Williamson County.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Williamson
Priority Served: Rural Communities
The mission of Merced Housing Texas (Merced) is to create and strengthen healthy communities by providing quality, affordable, service-enriched housing for low-income individuals and families. Since 2002, Merced’s Owner Occupied Repair Program (OORP) has provided critical repairs to 570 homes, averaging 30 homes annually. Merced will use its Texas Foundations Fund matching grant to support the OORP and specifically serve homeowners with a disability.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Bexar
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
The mission of the Montgomery County Women’s Center is to lead the effort in preventing domestic violence and sexual assault through crisis intervention, assistance, advocacy, empowerment and social change. The organization’s Reaching Pines apartment complex is the first transitional housing program of its kind in Montgomery County. With a matching grant from the Texas Foundations Fund, Montgomery County Women’s Center will provide financial education and other supportive services to residents with a disability, enabling them to achieve independence through financial empowerment.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
Counties Served: Harris, Liberty, Montgomery
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Motivation, Education and Training, Inc. (MET) was founded with the purpose of providing academic and vocational training to migrant and seasonal farmworkers to help further their economic sufficiency. MET will use its matching grant from the Texas Foundations Fund to support the Farmworker Housing Rehabilitation Program, enabling MET to serve homeowners in rural communities throughout south Texas.
Program Type: Critical Repair
Counties Served: Cameron, Dimmit, Hidalgo, Maverick, Starr, Webb, Willacy, Zavala
Priority Served: Rural Communities
New Hope Housing’s core purpose is to provide life-stabilizing, affordable, permanent housing with support services for people who live on limited incomes. New Hope formally instituted its Resident Services Program (RSP) in 2000 to provide case management, information and referral services, direct assistance with basic necessities, and educational and recreational opportunities for spiritual and social well-being. New Hope will target its matching grant specifically to residents with a disability, helping them become self-sufficient, maintain healthy lifestyles and engage with their neighbors.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
County Served: Harris
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
North Collin County Habitat for Humanity (NCC Habitat) is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization working to build strength, stability and self-reliance for families through shelter. To date, NCC Habitat has completed 123 home repairs through its Brush With Kindness (ABWK) program for low-income homeowners in need. NCC Habitat will use its matching grant to serve homeowners through the ABWK program, focusing specifically on homeowners in rural communities.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Collin
Priority Served: Rural Communities
The Opportunity Center for the Homeless servesthe homeless without distinction of race, ethnic origin, language spoken, or, religious beliefs, and regardless of mental, drug and alcohol problems. The Center will utilize its matching grant to fund supportive services, including intensive case management, provided at its Magoffin Avenue SRO (Single-Room Occupancy) permanent housing facility. All services funded by the matching grant will be targeted specifically to residents with a disability.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
County Served: El Paso
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Panhandle Community Services (PCS) is a non-profit community action agency that serves the top 26 counties of the Texas Panhandle by working with low-income households to provide temporary financial assistance and improve self-sufficiency. PCS has operated its Weatherization program for 38 years; in that that time the program has evolved to provide a range of critical repairs to approximately 150 households annually. PCS will utilize its matching grant to expand the program in rural communities of the Texas Panhandle.
Program Type: Critical Repair
Counties Served: Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler
Priority Served: Rural Communities
Rebuilding Together El Paso (RTEP) is a non-profit organization that provides critical repairs to low-income elderly and/or disabled homeowners in El Paso. To date, over 500 homes have been rehabilitated and revitalized with the help of hundreds of volunteers. RTEP will target all repairs funded through its matching grant specifically to homeowners with disabilities.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: El Paso
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Tarrant County Samaritan Housing, Inc. (Samaritan House) was established in 1991 to provide housing and end-of-life care to persons living with HIV/AIDS. As medical interventions improved and life expediencies grew, the agency realigned the mission to help residents maintain housing stability, establish goals, improve life skills, and work toward self-sufficiency. Samaritan House will utilize its matching grant from the Texas Foundations Fund to provide supportive services, such as medical case management, substance abuse counseling, life skills and enrichment services to residents with a disability.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
County Served: Tarrant
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
The Women’s Home was created in 1957 with the mission to help women in crisis regain their self-esteem and dignity, and empower them to return to society as productive, self-sufficient individuals. The Women’s Home will use its matching grant from the Texas Foundations Fund to help fund supportive services for residents with disabilities at the organization’s Jane Cizik Garden Place permanent supportive housing facility.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
Counties Served: Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Montgomery
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Trinity Habitat for Humanity builds strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter. Their programs include building new homes, externally repairing existing homes and offering homebuyer education classes and counseling services in partnership with qualified low-income families, sponsors and community volunteers. Trinity Habitat will use its matching grant specifically to serve homeowners with disabilities through its Preserve a Home Program, which provides external home repairs ranging from minor siding repairs to full roof replacements and accessibility modifications.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: Tarrant
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Saint Louise House was founded in 2000 with the mission to empower single mothers to overcome homelessness in Central Texas. Since opening its doors in 2001 to five families in rented apartments, Saint Louise House has expanded to serve up to 34 families at a time in two agency-owned apartment complexes in South Austin. Saint Louise House will use its matching grant to support regular case management, counseling, employment services, life skills workshops and other services for residents with disabilities.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
Counties Served: Travis, Williamson
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
Since 1986, Waco Habitat for Humanity and its volunteers have built 169 new homes and repaired 385 owner-occupied homes in McLennan County. Home repairs include plumbing, electrical, roof and structural repairs. Waco Habitat will utilize its matching grant to provide repairs specifically for homeowners with disabilities.
Program Type: Critical Repair
County Served: McLennan
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
For more than 40 years, LifeWorks has provided services to runaway, homeless and street youth in Austin, Texas. In January 2014 LifeWorks established its Permanent Supportive Housing program, which provides housing and support to chronically homeless youth with disabilities, many of whom have aged out of foster care. LifeWorks will use its matching grantto provide case management and other supportive services to its residents to help them build successful lives.
Program Type: Supportive Housing Services
County Served: Travis
Priority Served: Persons with a Disability
