Founder Grants
Children’s Medical Center, the Dallas County-based hospital received the Bruton Smith Speedway Children’s Charities Founder’s Grant for $125,000.
Children’s Medical Center will utilize the grant to equip a patient room in the hospital’s new 29,000-square-foot neonatal intensive care unit. The gift will help Children’s Medical Center provide the highest level of medical care in a nurturing environment to the most fragile infants in the region. The hospital anticipates that up to 2,000 infants annually, including those born with severe congenital anomalies, acute heart, lung, brain and intestinal diseases or extreme prematurity, will require this specialized care.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Collin County received the Eddie Gossage Speedway Children’s Charities Founder’s Grant for $150,000.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Collin County will use the grant to purchase six new vans for their vehicle fleet to help transport children every day of the school year from more than 80 Collin County schools to its three Boys & Girls Club locations. The vans are an important piece of the organization’s success as 80 percent of the club members come from single-parent homes and the parents are still working during the after-school hours. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Collin County serve nearly 5,000 children annually.
Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County received the Betty Rutherford Speedway Children’s Charities Founder’s Grant for $150,000.
The Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County, a United Way agency that serves child victims of sexual abuse or very serious physical abuse, will utilize the grant to provide for a wing on their new 14,070-square-foot building in north Lewisville that was completed this summer. In 2008, the center and its staff provided more than 8,000 counseling services to abused children and their non-offending family members.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington, a Tarrant County-based organization, received the Maj. General Thomas Sadler Speedway Children’s Charities Founder’s Grant for $125,000
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington will use their grant for the construction and furnishings for the Main Branch Learning Center. The Learning Center will be the focal point of Project Bright Star, a 1-on-1 tutoring program targeting first- through fourth-graders that are failing or at risk of failing reading, writing and/or math. The project will serve more than 1,000 Tarrant County students annually.
Partner Grants
a Wish with Wings, Inc.
All Church Home for Children, Inc.
Alliance for Children
Ann's Haven VNA (Visiting Nurse Association)
Baylor Health Care System Foundation
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Fort Worth
Buckner Children and Family Services, Inc.
Camp Summit, Inc.
Cancer Cares Services
Children's Medical Center
Community Storehouse
Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home
Dallas Children's Advocacy Center
Dental Health Arlington
Dental Health Programs, Inc. dba Community Dental Care
Denton Kiwanis Children's Clinic
Easter Seals North Texas
Gill Children's Services, Inc.
GRACE
Hope's Door
Interfaith Ministries of Denton, Inc.
Metrocare Services
MHMR Visions
Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas
Oak Hill Academy
PediPlace Inc.
Performing Arts Fort Worth, Inc.
Prevent Blindness Texas- Fort Worth Branch
Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth
SafeHaven of Tarrant County
Tarrant Area Food Bank
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
The Women's Center of Tarrant County, Inc.
What About Remembering Me Center, Inc. dba The WARM Place.