Grants through Communities Foundation of Texas support all areas of the community: education, youth, arts and culture, social services, health care and public safety among them. Of the $73 million in grants paid in 2010, some of the most noteworthy came from the W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation at CFT.
• Health: A $3.5 million grant to the American Heart Association to provide a transformative heart attack emergency response system (the first of its kind in Dallas County). The system makes it possible to transfer heart-monitoring information with the patient from the ambulance to any hospital in the county and increase survival rates.
• Youth: A $3 million grant to build a groundbreaking juvenile delinquency prevention program at Big Brothers Big Sisters to keep high-risk youth in school and out of jail.
• Public Safety: A $2 million grant to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center for the county’s first comprehensive sexual assault treatment program. The grant will support forensic exam suites, nurse examiner training, post-trauma counseling and advocacy.
• Education: $2 million to Big Thought to coordinate out-of-school learning and services for Dallas children through the Thriving Minds program. Thriving Minds offers tools and direct services to 34 DISD elementary and middle schools serving more than 4,500 children.
• Health: $1 million for Parkland Health & Hospital System’s Information Exchange Portal, a web-based platform that will provide two-way connectivity between Parkland’s electronic medical records and community-based social services organizations, enabling social service and public health agencies to more effectively team on pre- and post-hospital care.
• Elderly: $500,000 to The Senior Source for a Senior Safety Model to prevent and respond to elder fraud, abuse, neglect and loss of security. |
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American Heart Association: From left, Brent Christopher, president and CEO of CFT; Carlos González Peña, CFT trustee; Midge LaPorte Epstein, American Heart Association’s South Central Affiliate executive vice president; and John Warner, M.D., American Heart Association’s Dallas division president and South Central Affiliate board member.
Rape Crisis: From left, Jeverley R. Cook, Ph.D., CFT’s W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation executive director; Jana Barker, Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center executive director; Courtney Underwood, Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center board president; and Jay McAuley, Texas Health Presbyterian Foundation president.
Big Brothers Big Sisters: From left, Durrand Hill, Dallas District Attorney Office juvenile division chief; Brent Christopher: CFT president and CEO; Scott Patterson, former little brother; and Charles Pierson: Big Brothers Big Sisters president and CEO. |