2019 Funded Partners

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Access Esperanza Clinics, Inc.

$50,000

Accessibility to colposcopy and HPV Vaccinations through training, equipment, and lab costs.

www.accessclinics.org

Agape Missionaries for Life

$100,000

This project is geared to improving quality in the way we learn about sustainable health provision and growing in scope of health provision and education in our community.

American Red Cross

$50,000

The American Red Cross will provide assistance to support and help build additional respite and basic mass care services capacity for independent or community-based housing and sheltering operations to organizations assisting migrants, their families, and unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. across the Southwest Border.

www.redcross.org

AMIkids Rio Grande Valley

$50,000

To support our mental health and substance abuse prevention services.

www.amikids.org

Aurora House Foundation

$100,000

Aurora House is working to strengthen organizational sustainability and resiliency, enhance Board effectiveness, and restore operations to full capacity.

www.aurorahouse.org

Boys & Girls Club of Los Fresnos

$10,000

This project seeks to improve club member and family wellness through enhancing their Triple Play program activities.

www.fb.com/bgclosfresnos/

BiG HEROES, Inc.

$20,000

To provide continued life skills and health instruction to young adults with disabilities.

www.bigherotx.org

Brownsville Public Utilities Board

$100,000

To deliver safe and reliable potable water to first-time residential home connections located on Torres Road.

www.brownsville-pub.com/

Buckner Children and Family Services, Inc.

$50,000

Buckner's Family Hope Center addresses sustainability, providing easy access to care, and a healthier lifestyle for the family.

www.buckner.org

 

Cameron County Mental Health Task Force

$49,979

ETC (End the Stigma) - Connect services to individuals by creating a community resource center to a rural community.

www.cameroncountymentalhealth.org

CATCH Global Foundation

$104,000

The CATCH Program in Edinburg CISD supports elementary and middle schools in creating environments that teach and promote healthy lifestyles

www.catchglobalfoundation.com

Child Abuse Education Program of South Texas

$25,000

A conference for persons interested in child maltreatment and domestic violence.

www.fsseminar.com

Children's Hunger Fund

$30,000

Children's Hunger Fund aims to alleviate hunger and deliver hope. CHF sends food and aid to the homes of families in need.

www.childrenshungerfund.org

City of Alamo

$55,583

The City of Alamo will upgrade and replace the 4 indoor/outdoor air condition systems at the Alamo Youth Center gym.

www.cityofalamo.org

 

City of Brownsville

$500,000

The City of Brownsville looks to establish a Food Hub to increase access to fresh, healthy, and affordable local food.

www.cob.us

City of La Feria

$495,000

To maximize access to care with emergency medical services and rescue to our community and surrounding areas.

www.cityoflaferia.com

City of South Padre Island

$307,783

SPI Fire will acquire 5 Lifepak-15 monitor defibrillators and 5 Lucas-3 Devices.

www.myspi.org

 

City of Rio Hondo

$500,000

Boat Ramp Park renovations will enhance recreational opportunities and free public boat access to the Arroyo Colorado along the new paddling trail. It will be a destination from the land and water.

www.riohondo.us

 

Community Development Corporation of Brownsville

$2,375,500

To improve lives, maximize resources and build health through affordable housing and integrated supportive services.

www.cdcbrownsville.org

Community Hope Projects, Inc.

$100,000

HOPE's Wellness and Supportive Health Project will expand coordination of services, build sustainability, and will empower patients to address health care needs through health and supportive services.

www.hopefamilyhealthcenter.org

Community Hope Projects, Inc.

$210,774

HOPE's IBH services provide medical, behavioral, and care coordination to uninsured members of the RGV community with diabetes, hypertension, depression, and chronic illness.

www.hopefamilyhealthcenter.org

Culture of Life Ministries

$50,000

Culture of Life Ministries aims to help the needy access specialty, diagnostic, and treatment services in our community.

www.colmhealth.org

El Milagro Clinic

$100,000

El Milagro's Integrated Behavioral Health model focuses on achieving behavioral changes through nutrition, exercise, and mental health counseling.

www.elmilagroclinic.org

Family Crisis Center, Inc.

$66,500

Family Crisis Center aims to break the cycle of violence through community education and counseling.

www.familycrisisctr.org

Family Endeavors

$48,871

The UEVAP seeks to end the cycle of veteran homelessness in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas.

www.endeavors.org

Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley, Inc.

$50,000

Mesa Llena is a food-relief project to improve the health of low income residents of Brownsville.

www.foodbankrgv.com

Friendship of Women, Inc.

$50,000

To support operational readiness and increase opportunity to grow the infrastructure needs of FOW.

www.fowinc.com

Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas

$41,098

The Be A Friend First Program will help 600 girls learn how to prevent and respond to bullying.

www.gsgst.org

Good Samaritan Community Services

$25,207

Camp Good Sam - RGV improves health outcomes and enhances academic achievement in students grades 1 - 8.

www.goodsamtx.org

Hidalgo County

$500,000

Construction of a 6,200 sq. ft. youth facility plus a 5,400 sq. ft. youth gym.

www.hidalgocounty.us

Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville Migrant Respite Center

$60,735

Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville Migrant Respite Center addresses core needs for migrants, or applicants for asylum. Those needs include clean clothing, hygiene supplies, showers, meals, infant nutrition, medical assessments, medications, child care, rest/sleep, as well as modes of communication. 

www.iglesiabautistawb.com

IT'S TIME TEXAS

$500,000

ITT supports schools, employers, nonprofits, healthcare systems, and communities with programs and resources focused on increasing healthy behaviors, including good nutrition and physical activity.

www.itstimetexas.org

La Posada Providencia

$12,000

This project eliminates bed bugs as a health threat to residents of a homeless shelter.

www.lppshelter.org

Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council

$250,000

RGV B-Cycle program will support regional health and wellness across the Rio Grande Valley through collaborative bike share program.

www.lrgvdc.org

Nuestra Clinica del Valle, Inc.

$437,808

TCDV provides comprehensive health services to the residents of Hidalgo and Staff Counties by utilizing an integrated team based approach that supports patients complex healthcare needs.

www.nuestraclinicadelvalle.org

 

Nuevos Horizontes of Starr County

$28,800

This program will focus on educating and helping disabled youth.

 

Planned Parenthood South Texas

$100,000

To increase access to health care for low-income patients.

www.ppsouthtexas.org

Proyecto Juan Diego, Inc.

$150,984

Unidos Contra la Diabetes is a community partnership dedicated to preventing diabetes in the Rio Grande Valley, utilizing a large scale change approach known as "collective impact".

www.ucdrgv.org

Rio Grande Habitat for Humanity

$50,000

Our goal is to assist low income families with home repairs after the recent June 24, 2019 floods to avoid exposure to mold, mildew, bacteria and viruses which can cause illness.

www.habitatrgv.org/

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Rio Grande Valley

$50,000

Children's families are provided with a place to stay, eat, and sleep.

www.rmhcrgv.org

South Texas Afghanistan Iraq Veterans Association

$16,500

Operation Vet Care will increase accessibility to healthcare for veterans by providing vouchers for medical needs.

www.staivargv.org

 

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc.

$976,566

To implement a Community Paramedicine Program that will utilize Emergency Medical Services in promotion and evaluation in preventive health care.

www.stec-ems.org

 

South Texas Juvenile Diabetes Association

$50,000

STJDA will further extend current services to children living with diabetes in the mid-Valley.

www.stjda.org

 

Su Casa De Esperanza

$45,110

Su Casa de Esperanza provides Early Childhood Development Program to families in the Rio Grande Valley.

www.sucasadeesperanza.org

 

Su Clinica

$621,150

This project is a collaborative integration of pediatric behavioral health services into the primary care setting.

www.suclinica.org

 

Sunny Glen Children's Home

$25,000

Sunny Glen's Counseling Center provides mental health counseling for individuals and families.

www.sunnyglen.org

Sunshine Haven, Inc.

$46,855

Sunshine Haven will continue to provide accessible 24 hour care for terminally ill patients.

www.sunshinehaveninc.org

Syracuse University - Institute for Veterans and Military Families

$1,200,000

TXServes RGV is an innovative model of coordinated care and service delivery for military families designed to get the right veteran to the right service in the least amount of time.

www.ivmf.syr.edu

Texas Ramp Project

$25,000

The McAllen Ramp Project builds free wheelchair ramps for low-income elderly and disabled people.

www.texasramps.org

The Salvation Army - Harlingen

$50,000

The Salvation Army will provide basic life needs through prescription and utility assistance for those in poverty.

www.salvationarmytexas.org/harlingen

Town of Combes

$300,000

This project is the first phase in the development of shared use trails and exercise facilities to promote health and recreation activities for the community.

www.townofcombes.com

Tropical Texas Behavioral Health

$500,000

To sustain the successes realized through our implementation of mental health law enforcement teams trained to intervene with people in psychiatric crisis and divert them from incarceration.

www.ttbh.org

Tropical Texas Behavioral Health

$746,152

Military Veterans Peer Centers will provide mental health services and support to veterans and military families in the RGV.

www.ttbh.org

Tropical Texas Behavioral Health

$1,074,243

Sustain and enhance the successful implementation of integrated reverse colocation primary care with behavioral health outpatient clinics at all four facilities.

www.ttbh.org

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

$830,894

Salud y Vida 3.0 provides IBH solutions to an evidence-based chronic care management program (Salud y Vida 20) which couples clinic-based services with community-based care for diabetics in the RGV.

https://rgvsaludyvida.org/

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

$316,282

Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center is partnering with UTRGV School of Medicine to provide medical care to refugee families that arrive at the US Southern border.

www.utrgv.edu

WomenTogether Foundation, Inc.

$45,373

The Transitional Housing program offers victims of domestic violence 18 months of housing and case management.

www.womentogether.org