The benefits of more than 50 years of donor generosity are ongoing in hundreds of programs - at hospitals and housing developments, churches, schools and social service centers, museums and music halls and many more places - that continue to improve education, healthcare, arts and culture, and civic and social services in our community.

CFT awarded grants totaling almost $67 million during the last fiscal year. A breakdown of how the grants were invested is shown in this pie chart, which includes donor-advised, designated and competitive grants.

At its April 2008 meeting, the CFT Grants Distribution Committee recommended the following grant proposals, which were approved by the board. Grants to meet these requests came from the limited discretionary funds available for competitive grant awards:

• AIDS Interfaith Network received $100,000 to support pre-construction costs of a shared multi-purpose facility that will house the agencies involved in the Dallas Coalition of HIV/AIDS Services.

• Association for Retarded Citizens (Arc) of Dallas received $15,000 to launch a new initiative, “Stop the Violence, Break the Silence” Abuse Prevention Program, to protect people with intellectual and related developmental disabilities.           

• Bishop Dunne Catholic High School received $25,000 to support the Bishop Dunne Community Center Outreach Program.           

• Cambridge School of Dallas received $15,810 to purchase the first school-wide computer network and a centralized printer/copier operation center.  

• Circle of Support received $30,000 to support the 2008 Girl S.M.A.R.T. (Science, Math, Art, Reading and Technology) Summer Learning Program for girls in grades one through eight.    

• Dallas Academy received $35,000 to support a capital campaign to renovate and expand the school’s campus.

• Dallas Urban Debate Alliance received $35,000 to for a summer debate institute.          

• Dickinson Place Charitable Corp., which provides housing to low-income senior citizens, received $30,000 to replace the building’s exterior windows.        

• East Dallas Community School received $11,000 to purchase durable teaching equipment and furnishings for children in 15 classrooms at two schools.         

• Fairhill School received $36,000 toward the purchase of interactive white boards for lower- and upper-school classrooms.  

• Good Shepherd Episcopal School received $50,000 to support Phase I of the “Building Excellence Together” capital campaign.

• H.I.S. Bridge Builders, which assists citizens living on public assistance to achieve self-sufficiency, received $28,000 to purchase a van.  

• Infant and Toddler Intervention of North Texas (ReadyStart) received $25,000 to partially fund a new phone system.  

• Junior Players Guild received $10,000 to support a free after-school arts education program in recreation centers throughout Dallas . 

• Lee Park and Arlington Hall Conservancy received $25,000 toward the “Timeless Treasure Campaign” to renovate portions of Lee Park contiguous to Arlington Hall.  

• Student Conservation Association received $10,000 to support the 2008 Dallas Summer Work Program.

• United States Naval Academy Foundation received a $50,000 challenge grant to support an outreach and applicant-recruitment strategy for qualified students and their families in the Dallas / Fort Worth area.

• Ursuline Academy of Dallas received $50,000 to help fund construction of the French Family Science, Math and Technology Center as part of the Ursuline Campus Renewal project.

• Youth Believing in Change, which serves children in the Vickery Meadows area, received $36,997 to purchase playground equipment in a building the organization recently acquired.