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Our grantees enhance Dallas life by supporting family unity and youth education through personal responsibility, creative problem solving and technology.

Center for BrainHealth

Center for BrainHealth

  • Years Funded: 2014-2023
  • Category: Education

Mission: The Center for BrainHealth, at The University of Texas at Dallas, is a nonprofit research institute dedicated to advancing the science of brain health.

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Community Partners of Dallas

Community Partners of Dallas

  • Years Funded: 1993-2023
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: Our mission is to provide what abused children urgently need today to thrive tomorrow.

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United to Learn

United to Learn

  • Years Funded: 2018-2023
  • Category: Education

Mission: United to Learn mobilizes the community to close opportunity gaps in Dallas public elementary schools, accelerating student achievement and developing purposeful leaders.

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ScholarShot

ScholarShot

  • Years Funded: 2015-2021
  • Category: Education

Mission: Changing lives with college degrees.

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Mommies in Need

Mommies in Need

  • Years Funded: 2019-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: To support parents experiencing a health crisis by providing childcare, compassion, and community.

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Café Momentum

Café Momentum

  • Years Funded: 2015-2021
  • Category: Education

Mission: Café Momentum, a Dallas-based restaurant and culinary training facility, transforms 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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Family Compass

Family Compass

  • Years Funded: 1998-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: The mission of Family Compass is to build healthy families and a strong North Texas community by preventing child abuse and neglect.

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North Dallas Shared Ministries

North Dallas Shared Ministries

  • Years Funded: 1991-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: North Dallas Shared Ministries is an interfaith community of volunteers, partners and collaborators providing charitable assistance to persons in need.

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Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP)

Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP)

  • Years Funded: 2007-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: PEP’s mission is to unite executives and inmates through entrepreneurial passion and servant leadership to transform lives, restore families and rebuild communities.

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Teach for America – DFW

Teach for America – DFW

  • Years Funded: 2009-2021
  • Category: Education

Mission: Teach for America finds, develops, and supports a diverse network of leaders, working together to end educational inequality.

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Children at Risk

Children at Risk

  • Years Funded: 2012-2021
  • Category: Education, Family Support Services

Mission: Children at Risk serves as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and advocacy.

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Promise House

Promise House

  • Years Funded: 2004-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: Promise House moves youth in crisis towards safety and success through crisis intervention, emergency and long-term housing, case management and counseling, education services, advocacy and outreach programs.

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Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL)

Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL)

  • Years Funded: 2020-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: The Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL) exists to reduce child poverty in Dallas by 50% within a single generation (20 years) through shared outcomes, shared strategies and collaborative action.

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Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas

Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas

  • Years Funded: 1996-2021
  • Category: Education

Mission: The mission of Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.  Girls Inc. provides research-based informal education programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual and emotional challenges.

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Shelter Ministries of Dallas (Genesis Women’s Shelter)

Shelter Ministries of Dallas (Genesis Women’s Shelter)

  • Years Funded: 1997-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support provides safety, shelter and support for women who have experienced domestic violence, and raises awareness regarding its cause, prevalence and impact.

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Commit!

Commit!

  • Years Funded: 2013-2021
  • Category: Education

Mission: The Commit! Partnership helps drive student achievement throughout Dallas County from cradle to career by leveraging data, community expertise and collaboration to measure what matters, identify best practices, and spread what works.

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The Family Place

The Family Place

  • Years Funded: 1992-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: The Family Place empowers victims of family violence by providing safe housing, counseling and skills that create independence while building community engagement and advocating for social change to stop family violence.

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The Perot Museum of Nature and Science

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science

  • Years Funded: 2003-2021
  • Category: Education

Mission: To inspire minds through nature and science. The Perot Museum is a signature project for The Hoglund Foundation. Funding has included capital funds for the building, general operating support, educational support and program support.

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Education Opens Doors

Education Opens Doors

  • Years Funded: 2016-2021
  • Category: Education

Mission: Education Opens Doors (EOD) empowers students to purposefully navigate through high school to college. EOD achieves this by partnering with middle and high schools to implement the Roadmap to Success Program, which provides students with the college knowledge and soft skills they need to achieve post-secondary success.

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TexProtects

TexProtects

  • Years Funded: 2010-2021
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: TexProtects’ mission is to reduce and prevent child abuse and neglect through research, advocacy, and education.

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Interfaith Family Services

Interfaith Family Services

  • Years Funded: 1990-2019
  • Category: Family Support Services

Mission: They are a faith-based organization that is committed to empowering homeless families by giving them a “hand up” out of poverty instead of a handout.

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“The Hoglund Foundation has empowered the work of The Commit Partnership from its inception, both through their generous resources and also through their wise, informed counsel. We are blessed to call them both a partner and an investor in our community’s transformative efforts.”

The Commit Partnership

“Thanks to generous donors like The Hoglund Foundation, the Perot Museum has welcomed nearly 6.5 million visitors […] and is leading the charge for STEM education and exploration in North Texas.”

Perot Museum

“Invaluable support from the Hoglund Foundation has [enabled] us to strategically scale our program over the past few years and support an additional 5000+ students in North Texas.”

Education Opens Doors

“Longstanding support from The Hoglund Foundation has helped TexProtects [sustain and continue] to develop comprehensive and innovative solutions to prevent child maltreatment and improve the CPS system – ultimately improving the lives of our most vulnerable children.”

TexProtects

“Over the past 40 years, The Family Place has counseled more than 215,000 men, women and children in need of lifesaving shelter services – today the largest family violence service provider in North Texas, thanks to support from The Hoglund Foundation.”

The Family Place

“The 39% of low-income, working families in Dallas must have affordable access to childcare to utilize the essential services needed to overcome poverty. With the help of The Hoglund Foundation, Interfaith Family Services will open Dallas’ first full-service Family Empowerment Center this fall – revolutionizing the way Dallas fights poverty.”

Interfaith Family Services

“One in three women in Dallas will experience abuse. We are eternally grateful to The Hoglund Foundation – we can heal more hearts than ever before, and our doors will be open and our lights will be on for the 4,000 women and children who rely on us each year.”

Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support

“Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas is grateful to have the support of The Hoglund Foundation as we inspire girls from low-income communities to be strong, smart and bold.  This partnership allows us to equip more girls to navigate the gender, economic and social barriers they face to grow into healthy, educated and independent women.”

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To improve the lives of families and at-risk children in the City of Dallas, Texas by partnering with organizations that provide education and family support services.

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