Part 3: Guide to Local Relief Efforts – Greater Ft Worth Area
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.
6 Stones Mission Network
| 6 Stones is building a coalition of churches, businesses, and others in the Hurst, Euless and Bedford area that provides solutions to meet the needs of our community. |
Alliance For Children, Tarrant County’s Children’s Advocacy Center
| Since 1992, Alliance For Children’s mission continues to be to protect Tarrant County children from child abuse through teamed investigations, healing services, and community education. All of our services from the initial outcry through counseling are completely free of charge. This horrid epidemic is causing much stress and strain to even the most stable of families. |
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. |
Community Enrichment Center, Inc
| We provide groceries for meals at both here at the CEC in NRH as a drive through and ISD schools each day. We will also be providing assistance for rent and utilities to families that we are already working actively with. |
Community Link
| We are a large food pantry feeding through a modified drive through system. We have already seen an uptick and anticipate many more who find themselves in a place of needing emergency food resources. |
Como Lions Heart, Inc.
| We normally do one Mobile pantry once per month with food coming from Tarrant Area Food Bank. We are now doing it once a week. |
HOPE Farm Inc
| We are providing meals daily for the sick, shut-in and elderly via drop-off. We are also providing meals for pick-up for the less fortunate in the Morning side community. We are also gathering computers(IPADS, Tablets, Laptops & Desktops) for low-income families that do not have them. |
Family Promise Irving
| We have provided food to families who have graduated from Family Promise of Irving, we are setting up a new program to provide services with rental assistance in the near future. |
Fortress Youth Development Center
| Fortress serves 73 families in Historic Southside Fort Worth with the hope and resources they need to interrupt the cycle of generational poverty. We are closed, but continue to serve our families. |
Fort Worth Hope Center & Without Walls Church
| We have opened our food pantry Mon-Fri 10-2, as we continue to receive donations we are getting the product out to the community by way of a drive thru pick up or sending it out through our partnered agencies and churches. |
Live Thankfully
| We are providing meals and snack packages for our counselors and first responders of our Live Thankfully schools to provide their most “at risk students” during this time of school closures. Many of these students are at risk of sexual and physical abuse. |
DASH Network
| We provide long term housing to asylum seekers and some of our current residents (who have work permits) have been told to stop coming to work. |
LVTRise
| We are providing food for families in a low-income neighborhood. |
Meals On Wheels, Inc. of Tarrant County
| Meals On Wheels of Tarrant County provides nutritious, home-delivered meals to the homebound, elderly and disabled residents of Tarrant County. |
North Texas Food Bank
| We continue to provide food for food insecure people and families. |
The Net Fort Worth
| The Net is coordinating a relief effort of grocery assistance to provide groceries to individuals living in independent housing in response to COVID-19. Due to the fact that many of the people we serve are considered high risk, our goal for this assistance is to reduce their risk of exposure by limiting the amount they need to utilize public transportation or leave their homes. |
Restoration Center
| Our organization provides Food and clothing. We are open at our center at 3452 Williams Rd. Tuesday through Friday to provide food and clothing and on the 1st Saturday of each month we have an outdoor food pantry in partnership with the TAFB. |
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. |
Tarrant County Hands of Hope
| We focus on the unsheltered, providing basic health screenings by questioner and when needed medical referral, provide printed material and information related to COVID-19, we provide personal hygiene supplies, water and small amount of food (as well as pet food, collars and leash if pet is present) |
West Fort Worth Center of Hope
| We are providing food, financial assistance, career development, encouragement and other services to children and families. |
Medical Assistance – Provide immediate medical care to patients with COVID-19 symptoms, as well as transportation to those receiving long-term treatment.
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.
Beautiful Feet Ministries
| We are feeding the unsheltered homeless living on the south side of Fort Worth, as well as some homeless families and individuals living in the area. |
The Human Impact
| Stepping in the gap for the homeless to meet tangible needs for those affected by the crisis and lifting up our partner service providers like Austin Street Center and OurCalling by raising funds so the shelter’s most elderly and at-risk can stay in a motel for an extended period of time. |
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County
| 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. |
WhenWeLove
| We have “boots on the ground” providing food, water, personal hygiene products, clothing, blankets and other necessities to help people living on the streets, in their cars or in encampments weather this storm. |
Technology Access – Supply low-income families with access to technology. Resources include computers and other devices, set-up assistance, and technological expertise to support distance learning and work from home opportunities.
HOPE Farm Inc
| We are providing meals daily for the sick, shut-in and elderly via drop-off. We are also providing meals for pick-up for the less fortunate in the Morning side community. We are also gathering computers(IPADS, Tablets, Laptops & Desktops) for low-income families that do not have them. |
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.
Community Enrichment Center, Inc
| We provide groceries for meals at both here at the CEC in NRH as a drive through and ISD schools each day. We will also be providing assistance for rent and utilities to families that we are already working actively with. |
Cornerstone Assistance Network
| We provide relief assistance to parents of children that attend one of 11 schools that are located and populated by low income families.. Also, for those who are being released from TDCJ Jails and Prisons. Also, we support anyone needing help that is referred to Cornerstone from one of our 91 church partners. While relief is not generally our focus, sustainability is, our relief efforts are around rent, utilities, job searches, food, medical needs, including RX and continued encouragement for those affected by COVID 19 due to illness or loss of income or emploment. |
DASH Network
| We provide long term housing to asylum seekers and some of our current residents (who have work permits) have been told to stop coming to work. |
GRACE
| Most of our clients work, living on meager budgets. These folks are mostly people in the service industry at the hotels, concessionaires at the airport, clerks at the mall, housekeeping and maintenance at the large companies, mom-and-pop shopkeepers, and many others. |
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. |
Restoration Center
| Our organization provides Food and clothing. We are open at our center at 3452 Williams Rd. Tuesday through Friday to provide food and clothing and on the 1st Saturday of each month we have an outdoor food pantry in partnership with the TAFB. |
Valiant Hearts
| Our organization is providing $100 worth of groceries for the population we serve through completing a google form with their needs. We serve women in the sex industry through offering various services within our organization. |
West Fort Worth Center of Hope
| We are providing food, financial assistance, career development, encouragement and other services to children and families. |
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.
Alliance For Children, Tarrant County’s Children’s Advocacy Center
| Since 1992, Alliance For Children’s mission continues to be to protect Tarrant County children from child abuse through teamed investigations, healing services, and community education. All of our services from the initial outcry through counseling are completely free of charge. This horrid epidemic is causing much stress and strain to even the most stable of families. |
Christ’s Haven for Children
| For more than 65 years, Christ’s Haven For Children has provided a trauma-informed family model of care for abused, neglected, and abandoned children. With voluntary placement, we offer families an option outside of the state foster care system that allows each child to heal from past trauma with the support of case managers and counselors onsite. |
Justin’s Place
| Justin’s Place exist to impact the life of a child by empowering mothers to grow mentally, physically and spiritually to live a life free of crisis walking out of generational poverty. 100% of the families we serve life below the poverty line. |
Live Thankfully
| We are providing meals and snack packages for our counselors and first responders of our Live Thankfully schools to provide their most “at risk students” during this time of school closures. Many of these students are at risk of sexual and physical abuse. |
Mid Cities Women’s Clinic
| We are a faith-based ministry that serves women and men in an unplanned pregnancy situation. Our patients know us as a safe, non-judgmental place where they can get professional medical services and receive information on all their options. |
NewDay Services for Children and Families
| With a rise in child neglect and abuse cases accompanying COVID-19, NewDay has restructured all parent education and support groups to occur online and by phone. |
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
ServeBridge
| ServeBridge connects churches with nonprofits and the city to provide accurate information in crisis situations. |
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. |