Part 3: Guide to Local Relief Efforts – Dallas
Below you will find the start of a general list of local relief efforts and non-profit organizations that meet the following criteria:
- Non-profit services include providing direct relief to people most adversely affected by the COVID-19 health crisis (This includes economic disruption in general that is caused by the health crisis);
- Work in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex; and
- Aligned with NCF’s Biblical beliefs and values.
Importantly, we are not expressly or impliedly promoting any non-profit organization listed below. Instead, we know of their work and that each organization meets the above criteria. This is intended to be the start of a list that grows as our local generous communities tell us about other non-profit organizations that meet the criteria.
Our goal and intent behind this Guide is to give you information to review, further research, and pray over on your own. We hope that the Lord will use this list to draw you into wherever He is calling you to give, whether that is an organization listed or not. We also hope this serves as a prayer guide of sorts to pray for the growing number of organizations that are providing direct relief to people in our areas who are most adversely affected by the COVID-19 health crisis.
Six Local Giving Areas
Food and Supplies: Distribute food and essentials, such as personal care items, household goods, and supplies for at home learning to the elderly, low-income families, and other under-served communities.
Behind Every Door
| We serve families in our communities and ensuring they have essential supplies and accurate, timely information on the COVID-19 virus. We have developed an alternative plan to serve the families in our communities under the circumstances. |
Bridges Safehouse
| Through our diaper pantry, we serve the most vulnerable during this crisis, women and children. We deliver diapers and wipes to pregnant women and parents in our community and set up appointments for pick up. Bridges is also a safe house for mothers experiencing homelessness. |
Buckner Children and Family Services
| Buckner serves the most vulnerable children and families in North Texas through our core programs: Family Hope Centers preserve families by providing them with critical social services and aid to keep them strong and moving toward sustainability. |
Christian Community Action
| CCA will begin delivering weekly groceries and lunch to seniors home. We are highly encouraging them to stay at home, and to let us bring their groceries and lunch to them. With the closings of restaurants, retailers, and other service-oriented businesses, many people in our community will see a significant reduction in income or job loss. This will impact CCA, as we expect to see an increase in clients needing rental, utility, and food assistance. |
CitySquare
| The CitySquare Food Pantry remains open, meeting a significantly increase demand. To safely serve our neighbors, the pantry has shifted from a client-choice model to a drive-up distribution model, with a walk-up option for neighbors relying on public transportation. |
Freedom Shield Foundation
| We are providing packaged meals to those in direct need of food. |
www.freedomshieldfoundation.com
North Texas Food Bank
| We continue to provide food for food insecure people and families. |
The Salvation Army North Texas Command
| The Salvation Army is ramping up efforts to mitigate the spread among our community’s most vulnerable populations – from those who have no place to call home to those who could be just Designating areas for isolation in our shelters, should that become necessary one paycheck away from eviction. We continue to provide services that work to fight poverty, addiction, and homelessness throughout North Texas. |
TR Hoover CDC
| We are currently running Food Outreach as well as information Resource Center |
Trusted World
| We provide clothing, toiletries and food(limited) to organizations on the front line at no cost. We work with schools, police departments, emergency management and nonprofits so they can focus on their main objectives without having to worry about finding these resources on their own. |
Voice of Hope Ministries
| We have a food pantry that is supplying food to families in need. Many of the families that we normally serve through our afterschool and summer programs have been laid off or are unable to get the work hours they need. |
We Are One Heart Foundation
| We are providing care packages to low income senior living communities, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. |
Medical Assistance – Provide immediate medical care to patients with COVID-19 symptoms, as well as transportation to those receiving long-term treatment.
Healing Hands Ministries
| Healing Hands Ministries remains the only non profit health center open in North Dallas. We are committed to maintaining a safe, compassionate, quality place for care of every neighbor. We have triage stations at every entry point with thermometer scans for every person entering the building. |
Heavenly Mimi
| We are providing gas cards to get to and from treatment for cancer. We provide hotel stays due when patients cannot go home. We assist with the medical bill debit they are incurring. |
Vickery Trading Company
| Vickery Trading Company equips refugee women for long term-success through vocational training, personal development and fair wages. We’ve been able to give them temporary work from home sewing face masks for medical professionals in the area. |
Homeless – Provide meals, clothing, health care, and housing to the growing homeless community; intentionally, preventing the spread of COVID-19 among a very vulnerable population.
Austin Street Center
| Austin Street Center is the largest low barrier shelter in Dallas that serves men, ages 45 and older, and women, ages 18 and older. Each person who finds shelter with Austin Street Center is provided a safe place to sleep, showers, clothing, and meals. |
Homeless Coalition of Dallas
| Providing food and some basic necesities |
www.homelesscoalitionofdallas.com
Our Calling
| Providing the following emergency efforts for the homeless community, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner (all served to go). Showers, Clothing, Restrooms. We are leading the coordination and collaboration of all major homeless service providers. |
Union Gospel Mission Dallas
| UGM-TC is providing sack lunches to guests from the street, an additional 100-125 sack lunches to Presbyterian Night Shelter, and additional sack lunches the City of Fort Worth needs us to hand out – all on a daily basis during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Financial Assistance – Provide financial support to people most affected by the current crisis to assist with purchasing basic necessities and paying living expenses, as well as offer job assistance to the unemployed.
Bridges Safehouse
| Through our diaper pantry, we serve the most vulnerable during this crisis, women and children. We deliver diapers and wipes to pregnant women and parents in our community and set up appointments for pick up. Bridges is also a safe house for mothers experiencing homelessness. |
Buckner Children and Family Services
| Buckner serves the most vulnerable children and families in North Texas through our core programs: Family Hope Centers preserve families by providing them with critical social services and aid to keep them strong and moving toward sustainability. |
CitySquare
| The CitySquare Food Pantry remains open, meeting a significantly increase demand. To safely serve our neighbors, the pantry has shifted from a client-choice model to a drive-up distribution model, with a walk-up option for neighbors relying on public transportation. |
For the Nations Refugee Outreach
| Currently serving refugee families in Dallas by providing access to food, diapers, and other necessary items through “drive through days” as well as access to online English classes and Bible lessons for adults and children during the COVID crisis. |
The Salvation Army North Texas Command
| The Salvation Army is ramping up efforts to mitigate the spread among our community’s most vulnerable populations – from those who have no place to call home to those who could be just Designating areas for isolation in our shelters, should that become necessary one paycheck away from eviction. We continue to provide services that work to fight poverty, addiction, and homelessness throughout North Texas. |
Family Support Services – Ensure the physical and emotional well-being of vulnerable children and families. Services include care for abused, neglected, and abandoned children, parent education and support groups, and counseling services.
Buckner Children and Family Services
| Buckner serves the most vulnerable children and families in North Texas through our core programs: Family Hope Centers preserve families by providing them with critical social services and aid to keep them strong and moving toward sustainability. |
Grafted Life Ministries
| We provide At Home with God — a weekly resource (email, video) that helps parents and families spiritually thrive during COVID-19. |
www.graftedlife.org/at-home-main
Hope Women’s Center
| Hope Women’s Center is an unplanned pregnancy medical clinic that provides medical and educational services to women and men who find themselves in a crisis pregnancy. |
Involved for Life, Inc
| While we can all agree everyone is being affected by this crisis, the vulnerability of pregnant women and those who have just given birth is often overlooked. We are one of very few, if any, centers who serve this population who are remaining open and serving currently. |
Prestonwood Pregnancy Center
| Prestonwood Pregnancy Center is a crisis ministry with centers in both Richardson and Duncanville. God mightily uses it to love on those who are reeling with the news of an unplanned pregnancy. We believe every client visit is a divine appointment, and their crossing the center’s threshold was orchestrated by the Lord. |
Real Options
| RO is a faith based, pro-life pregnancy resource medical clinic that’s current goal is to keep our doors open as long as the abortion clinics’ doors are open through the pandemic. |
Woman to Woman Pregnancy Resource Center
| We are an evangelical, faith based organization offering options education in a loving environment. We are doing pregnancy testing and verification. STI testing and treatment. We are also providing diapers, wipes, formula, baby food, as well as parenting and relationship education. |
Young Life – NE TX Region
| Food insecurity – Our staff and volunteers are helping pass out meals at DISD. |
www.northeasttexas.younglife.org/inner-city
The Vitamin Bridge
| As a faith-based nonprofit, The Vitamin Bridge provides CVS Health prenatal vitamins to pregnancy centers and free health clinics who are serving the disadvantaged. We are serving a vulnerable population of expectant moms whose challenged lives have become even more disrupted with COVID-19. |
Community/Church Organizer
Unite the Church
| Unite is leveraging our network and systems to align the efforts of churches with local government, healthcare providers, nonprofits, and schools at the DFW, county, and city levels. |