Find Your Passion. Give With Purpose.
This year's North Texas Giving Day is September 21, 2023. Gradus is committed to helping these organizations leverage the power of the group give with over $250,000 in NTX Giving Day donations. We hope you will take the time to learn more about what these groups are doing in North Texas and join us in supporting their missions.
Café Momentum’s mission is to transform young lives by equipping our community’s most at-risk youth with life skills, education and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential.
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Café Momentum hosts our FAVORITE NTX Giving Day event, MOMENTUM LIVE!
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This year's 7th annual MOMENTUM LIVE! is back and bigger than ever!
Virgin Hotels Dallas is hosting and rolling out their festive red carpet! Over four-courses, we’ll be entertained with skits, interviews, comedy routines, live music and more performed by professionals alongside the Interns of Café Momentum.
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Musical guests include YOUNG. Keite Young of Medicine Man Revival and his band of Dallas’ best musicians promise to bring the vibes to share with you and the Café Momentum Interns for a truly magical evening, and it doesn’t stop there – this is a night you don’t want to miss!
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NTX Giving Day Goal: $250,000
The mission of Jubilee Park and Community Center is to be a catalyst for community renewal and enrichment to the Jubilee Park Neighborhood, a 62-block area in Southeast Dallas. The majority of families here are working poor who are under served in terms of education and health resources.
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In order to fulfill its mission, Jubilee Park provides educational enhancements through the highest quality afterschool and summer programs and helps families and other members of the community identify and access resources that help to provide stability and enhance their quality of life. Furthermore, Jubilee Park offers opportunities for parent education and involvement and aims to build community relations among diverse cultures.
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Gradus has partnered with Jubilee for their newest initiative, the Jubilee Clinic, opening September 2022. The health clinic is in the Jubilee Park neighborhood and is a joint venture including social services, health education, fitness, mental health counseling, a family practice and dental clinic.
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NTX Giving Day Goal: $100,000
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Momentous Institute, founded by Salesmanship Club of Dallas, exists to build and repair social emotional health with children, families and communities. Each year, the organization partners with 4,000 children and family members through innovative education and therapeutic services. The Momentous Institute also invests in research and training to reach far more children than could ever be seen directly. The mission, transforming children's futures and creating new possibilities for success, guides all programming and research.
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Momentous Institute continues to face a critical need to maintain their direct services in education and mental health, as well as their training programs. COVID-19 and its variants have presented a continued financial stressor to Momentous this year. This pandemic has put the importance of mental health at the forefront of of teachers and the families they walk alongside. Their swift program delivery shifts over the past year allowed them to meet mental health and education needs with newer, innovative approaches utilizing technology and remote access to learning and therapy.
FORERUNNER MENTORING
Forerunner Mentoring exists to fulfill the potential of every young man in Lake Highlands (East Dallas area) growing up without a father-figure at home by providing mentoring, programs, and family support in the name of Jesus.
Forerunner Mentoring envisions a day when:
- Every boy in Lake Highlands has a consistent and godly father-figure in their life.
- Every single mom in Lake Highlands feels supported and encouraged by the staff's investment in her kids. Honored by the volunteers who show up, speak truth, and love God. Knit in to local churches in Dallas for their families flourishing. Celebrated for the sacrifices they have made for their kids to thrive.
- Every boy in the program leaves with a blueprint for being men of God and a vision for leading their future families.
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NTX Giving Day Goal: $110,000
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The mission of West Dallas Community School is to provide students with a challenging educational experience designed to help them know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and excellent and to prepare them to live purposefully and intelligently in the service of God and man.
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NTX Giving Day Goal: $150,000
Voice of Hope Ministries exists to extend the love of Jesus Christ by nurturing and training children through Biblical teaching, Christian character models, life skills coaching and educational support.
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Voice of Hope seeks to provide the highest quality Christian care to children from 4 years to High School age. VOH provides after-school programming that includes both educational supplementation and spiritual support to over 300 children in West Dallas. Over 170 children are served through their summer programming.
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