to access the 2014 Grant Request detail for Future Fund

Organization: Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council for the Concho Valley
Executive Director: Eric Sanchez
Project Title: ADACCV Detox Expansion Project
Area Served: Coke, Concho, Crockett, Irion, Kimble, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Reagan, Schleicher, Sutton, Sterling and
Tom Green
Type of Request: Capital Campaigns
Amount Requested: $250,000 Total Project Cost: $5,000,000
Funds Committed: ADACCV received a $1,000,000 challenge grant from the San Angelo Health Foundation and just over
$100,000 from internal campaign efforts with the Board of Directors and staff and a handful of individual supporters.
The GR White Trust recently received our $25,000 proposal. Both the James B. & Lois R. Archer Charitable Foundation
and HRJ Consulting have received letters of interest. Dialog has taken place between ADACCV CEO, Eric Sanchez and Joe
Mabee of the J.E. & L.E. Mabee Foundation.
Project Description: ADACCV and its Board of Directors are asking for a capital campaign gift from the San Angelo Area
Foundation. ADACCV feels it will make a very strong statement to have SAAF's approval and support of this critical
project when approaching the overall community for additional gifts in the months ahead. The request is for a $250,000
gift for the campaign toward the $5,000,000 goal. ADACCV feels the gift will serve as a strong incentive for other
foundations and individuals to join in funding the new operating facilities.
ADACCV has a multipurpose plan to expand services and increase space. Currently, ADACCV's programs are located in
three different locations: The Cotton Lindsey Center – 3553 Houston Harte, Sara's House – 401 W. Twohig and Williams
House – 134 W. College St. ADACCV's goals are to add residential detoxification services to serve up to twelve clients,
double the residential treatment capacity and to consolidate all services at the Cotton Lindsey Center.
At this time, ADACCV provides intensive residential treatment services for up to twelve women and their children at
Sara's House and for up to sixteen men at Williams House. The expansion would permit ADACCV to double its residential
treatment capacity by providing services for up to eighteen women and their children and thirty men. The key benefit of
the planned expansion is the ability to add residential detoxification services, which is currently missing in San Angelo
and the Concho Valley for the indigent and uninsured.
Once services are consolidated at one location, there are two primary options available to ADACCV for the effective use
of its two vacated facilities. One option is to convert Sara's House and Williams House into drug-free transitional housing
for clients who successfully complete treatment. Another option is to use the facilities for youth residential treatment
programs. The drug-free transitional housing option, will utilize a "house manager" position who will be a person in longterm recovery that can responsibly enforce facility rules and policies. Tenants will pay rent, which will generate
additional revenue to cover facility maintenance and upkeep and also provide operating revenue for ADACCV.
ADACCV commissioned a comprehensive feasibility study conducted by a nationally acclaimed campaign management
firm, WPO Development, and led by its CEO, Keith Waters. Mr. Waters and his team have worked extensively
throughout the country and provided services to organizations in over 350 communities. The findings of the study
indicated strong support from the community for the project and confirmed the viability of raising the funds necessary
to accomplish the various goals outlined by ADACCV.
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Organization: City of San Angelo
Executive Director: Daniel Valenzuela
Project Title: Noise Reduction System for City of San Angelo Animal Shelter
Area Served: Enforce Ordinances in City of San Angelo city limits only; however, accept animals from the Concho Valley
and beyond as an "open shelter".
Type of Request: Building/Renovations
Amount Requested: $80,000
Total Project Cost: $130,000
Funds Committed: Health Services Division of the City of San Angelo has $50,000 for this project; again, through prudent
and efficient use of the Division's funding sources, we have been able to save this amount within the last two years.
Project Description: The large kennel room for dogs is approximately 5,040 SF with existing walls of concrete panels and
CMU construction with a vaulted ceiling and exposed trusses. The goal of the project, and reason for our request, is to
control and baffle the sound in the large kennel space to help reduce the decibel level when dogs are barking.
Scope of Work to be performed is outlined:
1.
On top of existing CMU kennel walls, install new metal stud partitions with sound batts, up to 6" minimum
above new ceiling grid to help baffle sound in the space. The long, spine CMU walls will have the new wall above along
with about 25% of the short, kennel side walls. This will create two separate kennel spaces. Height of wall is determined
by the new ceiling height. Walls shall be primed and painted.
2.
Install new ceiling grid system, 2'x 2'x 15/16" HD grid with special perforated or expanded metal lay-in tiles with
sound insulation. Hang from existing roof structure above. Ceiling height to be determined by the varying elevations of
the mechanical duct work and equipment. Ceiling will be above the majority of the ducts in the spaces.
3.
New 2x2 dimmable, LED lay-in fixtures, qty as needed. Abandon the existing fixtures and pull wires to new
fixtures
4.
New 2x2 acrylic lens for lay-in grid to allow natural light from existing skylights to filter into the space. Quantity
to be determined
5.
Modify existing mechanical ducts to accommodate new grid ceiling as needed.
6.
There is currently one thermostat in the space controlling the system. With a division of spaces, an additional
sensor will be required to help regulate temperatures.
7.
Transfer grills will need to be provided to allow proper air transfers between spaces.
8.
Chain link fencing laid horizontally on top of kennel spaces will need to be removed and salvaged to allow for
installation of walls. Lighter, cattle panel sections will be installed in its place.
Costs are projected at $130,000 and take approximately 6-12 months to complete.
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Because of efficient management of funds in other line items, Health Services, which oversees the Animal Shelter, has
$50,000 in savings to apply towards this project. While we realize it is a capital expenditure, animal related issues are
not on City Council's priority list.
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Organization: Community & Housing Support Division, City of San Angelo
Executive Director: Robert Salas
Project Title: Neighborhood Blitz
Area Served: City of San Angelo
Type of Request: Building/Renovations
Amount Requested: $100K
Total Project Cost: $200K
Funds Committed: Community Development Block Grant - $32,500
Habitat for Humanity - $17,000
City of San Angelo - $50,500
Project Description: As part of the Neighborhood Revitalization Plan, the City identified and outlined four low-income
neighborhoods in need of attention: Blackshear, Rio Vista, Reagan, and Ft Concho. This year's annual Neighborhood Blitz
will focus on the Ft Concho neighborhood bounded by Main St - Bell - 14th St - the Concho River. We will concentrate
on homes located on Harris St which is a gateway street leading into downtown.
Except for essential services (such as Police, Fire and Water), the city will close offices for one day in March 2015 to
allow City workers to engage in the blitz, working on special projects throughout the neighborhood. To leverage
resources and manpower, the City will partner with Habitat for Humanity through its Brush with Kindness program to
provide paint and supplies. Community volunteers will be recruited to include local churches, Angelo State University
students and military members from Goodfellow Air Force Base to carry out the two-day event.
In preparation for the two-day event, city staff will identify 25 to 30 homes in the area that need renovation and
replace deteriorated siding beginning in Oct 2014. The grant funds requested will pay for contractors to conduct siding
replacement beginning in Dec 2014.
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Organization: Concho Valley Regional Food Bank of Texas, Inc.
Executive Director: Gregory Duke
Project Title: Building Expansion
Area Served: Concho Valley
Type of Request: Building/Renovations
Amount Requested: 100000
Total Project Cost: 850000
Funds Committed: Amount needed for total building project is estimated to be approximately $850,000. At present, the
Concho Valley Regional Food Bank has committed $225,000 to the building project. Additional funding will be sought
from the following sources: San Angelo Health Foundation ($300,000), The James B. and Lois R. Archer Charitable
Foundation ($100,000), The Art and Eva Camunez Tucker Foundation ($100,000), The Beaumont Foundation of America
($50,000), and The Meadows Foundation ($50,000).
Project Description: The Concho Valley Regional Food Bank operates the Food 2 Kids Program requiring storage,
assembly space, and annual distribution capability for approximately 31,500 sacks of take home food for underserved,
food-insecure children residing in the Concho Valley. The current food bank facility faces challenges being adequate and
appropriate for the program as it is today, and will be unable to accommodate the certain growth of the program in
subsequent years. At present, adjustments have been made to the existing warehouse space to learn what is needed to
properly operate the program and grow in the future. The CVRFB staff and volunteers have experienced exceptionally
cramped work areas due to the Food 2 Kids Program and the current food bank facility is proving to be less than
effective. A major feature of the Food 2 Kids Program is the delivery of food to children who are identified as foodinsecure over the weekend during 35 weeks of the school year. Food insecurity is having no reasonable assurance of
what will be eaten, where it will be eaten, and when it will be eaten. At the heart of food-insecurity is an inability to
personally satisfy a basic need for growth, development, quality of life, and longevity. Unfortunately, there are
numerous children within our service area who are food-insecure as an abundance of Title 1 schools are present within
the counties served by the Concho Valley Regional Food Bank and have upwards of 75% participation in the free or
reduced cost meal program sponsored by individual schools. Food 2 Kids Program seeks to fill the gap that exists over
the weekend between free or reduced meal cost services provided by schools on Friday, that do not resume until
Monday. Food 2 Kids Program is currently established in 17 San Angelo Independent School District schools, as well as 9
districts within CVRFB territory, but outside San Angelo, TX. Direct services are targeted to be approximately 900 schoolaged children in each of 35 weeks, or 31,500 service units/children served. The Food 2 Kids Program will continue to be
an annual program as long as childhood hunger exists. Current costs of the total Childhood Hunger Programs are
approximately $100,000 annually. The Senior Focus Program will have a first-year costs of approximately $8,500, with
expectations of annual growth equaling the Childhood Hunger Programs. The building expansion costs of approximately
$850,000 are necessary to operate ongoing programs that will have an eventual cost of approximately $200,000
annually. All aspects of the Senior Focus Program have not yet been determined, but will likely resemble the Food 2 Kids
Program with the exception of schools not being a viable option to serve as the conduit/access point to the senior citizen
and senior citizens would be the focus of the program as opposed to children. Similarities would include food insecurity,
having a gap between food sources, and quality of life being reduced due to lack of available food.
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Organization: Junior League of San Angelo, Inc
Executive Director: Jaime Whitson
Project Title: Student Closet
Area Served: San Angelo
Type of Request: General Support
Amount Requested: $4,000
Total Project Cost: $4,000
Funds Committed: none
Project Description: Student Closet is a program designed to directly impact children who are in need of basic clothing
or school supplies. Student Closet committee works with SAISD faculty to inform them of our program. School
counselors initiate the process. When we are notified of a basic clothing or supply need, we will provide. In the past we
have provided:
- Basic clothing
- Coats
- Shoes
- Diapers
- School Supplies
During our 2013-2014 league year, we provided assistance to approximately 77 children. During our 2014-2015 league
year we want to increase our footprint across the school district by ensuring that all faculty members within SAISD are
informed of our program. We have budgeted a cost of $4000 in order to reach approximately 130 children. Our average
cost is $30 per request.
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Organization: New Horizons Ranch & Center, Inc.
Executive Director: Micheal Redden
Project Title: Homes and Therapy for Children
Area Served: Tom Green and Surrounding Counties
Type of Request: Program Development
Amount Requested: $20,000
Total Project Cost: $3,450,200.00
Funds Committed: $30,000 - San Angelo Health Foundation - committed to provide homes for children in San Angelo
and to help with children at our residential treatment center who are from San Angelo
Project Description: We are requesting a total of $20,000 to help find homes for children in the San Angelo area who
have been removed from their biological home due to abuse or neglect and also to help children from San Angelo who
are sent to our residential treatment center, The Audrey Grace House, in Abilene. Our Foster Care and Adoption
program in San Angelo finds and licenses families in San Angelo and the surrounding areas who are ready to give a home
to a child. The funds of $10,000 will assist with transportation expenses, foster parent expenses, communication
expenses and client related expenses such as clothing and respite care.The Audrey Grace House provides mental health
and emotional treatment services to children who have not previously been successful in a foster home and who are in
need of a more structured, treatment environment. The second funds portion of $10,000 will assist with food expenses,
child related and recreational expenses, and transportation expenses at the treatment center.
Since 1995, we have been training families and providing qualities home for children in the foster care system in Texas.
In 2012, we began training families and placing children, ages birth to 17, in homes in San Angelo and the surrounding
counties. Through New Horizons' Child Placing Agency –Foster Care and Adoption in San Angelo, we look for families
who are ready to give a child a safe and loving home. The children who need placement in the foster homes have been
removed from their original home due to abuse and neglect. We have partnered with several churches in the area
whose members are stepping forward not only to become foster parents, but to provide wrap-around support for each
family with a child in their care.
We also have children from San Angelo who live at our residential treatment centers in Goldthwaite and Abilene. Our
residential treatment centers help children from all areas of Texas, including San Angelo and surrounding areas, due to
the intensive level of emotional and mental health treatment we offer. When a child in San Angelo needs more intense
treatment than a foster home can provide, they are usually sent to residential treatment center. Because Abilene is in
such close proximity to San Angelo, many times they come to our treatment center, the Audrey Grace House.
The Audrey Grace House in Abilene is home to 22 children at a time, ages 5 to 17, who are suffering from a high level of
emotional trauma due to abuse and neglect. We provide treatment to approximately 40 – 50 children a year at the
Audrey Grace House. Most of the kids who live at the Audrey Grace House come from family dysfunction and tragedy.
They have been abused and are emotionally traumatized. They live at the Audrey Grace House receiving one-on-one
counseling and healthy interaction. The typical treatment length at our centers is 9 to 12 months depending on the
progress of the child and other determining factors.
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Organization: San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
Executive Director: Howard Taylor
Project Title: Support of the Arts Education Program for Youth
Area Served: Concho Valley
Type of Request: Program Development
Amount Requested: $25,000.00Total Project Cost: $250,000.00
Funds Committed: The total cost of youth programs (including school programs, family programs,spring break camp and
summer programs) is roughly $250,000.00. This includes staff and benefits, supplies, marketing, travel and evaluation.
Funding to support our programs for the 2014-2015 FY will come from:
Committed:
$25,000 - Sterling-Turner Foundation
$25,000 - Archer Foundation (will receive if another $25,000 is raised by Dec 1st they will
match another $25,000)
$1,500 - Texas Commission on the Arts
$14,000 - Texas Commission on the Arts
$2,000 - Target
$1,500 - Sams
Projected:
$35,000 - King Foundation
$25,000 - Sterling-Turner Foundation
$14,000 - Texas Commission on the Arts
$2,000 - Individual Donations
$12,000 - Program Fees
$7,000 - Summer for Kids Newspaper supplement advertising sales
$25,000 - San Angelo Area Foundation
Project Description: The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts' central service area is Tom Green County and the Concho
Valley,ex tending into a 15 county region with a combined population of just over 200,000. Most of these counties are
sparsely populated, have no major interstate access, and have child poverty levels above the national average. Support
from the San Angelo Area Foundation is pivotal for SAMFA to keep program fees at a minimum while maintaining the
highest quality in arts programming for our community. School and family programs are free of charge, and other
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program fees for concerts and camps are kept between ten and fifty dollars so that all audiences can benefit despite
economic circumstances. Over 20,000 visitors per year benefit directly from our education programs.
The total cost of youth programs (including school programs, family programs, and summer and spring break camp) is
roughly $250,000.00. This includes staff and benefits, supplies, marketing, travel and evaluation. We serve 25 school
districts in our 15 county region. School tours alone engage 12,000 students per year.
. The Museum offers on-demand programs for the San Angelo Independent School District. We are serving over 20,000
students per year which in many cases includes multiple visits. Beyond our school services, we offer many other
educational opportunities.
• Art Thursdays: Held yearly, every Thursdays, parents and children come to experience hands-on art activities.
• Library Program: The Museum lends selected artworks and programming related to the works to
libraries in rural communities, some as far away as 90 miles such as Ozona.
• Summer for Kids: June-August, and includes 60+ classes, field trips, and activities for over 500
children. These programs have included classes for dyslexic children and for children from the West Texas
Rehabilitation Center.
• Summer Camps: June-August five day/8 hour day camps are offered for different age groups that
provide healthy lunches, field trips including canoeing, nature drawing and visits with artists, scientists and
historians. Over 200 kids per year participate.
• Adult Programs include tours and workshops, a chamber music series, guest lectures, as well as gallery
talks and demonstrations by artists.
• Family Days: These are free events held monthly every 2nd Saturday, each one with a different cultural theme. The
events include exhibits, music, hands-on art, and cooking. Each month these programs draw to the museum 400 to 700
youths and parents.
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Organization: West Texas Counseling & Guidance
Executive Director: Dustin McCoy
Project Title: Expansion of Children's Counseling Services
Area Served: West Texas Counseling & Guidance serves the following counties: Coke, Concho, Crockett, Irion, Kimble,
McCulloch, Mason, Menard, Reagan, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton and Tom Green Counties.
Type of Request: General Support
Amount Requested: $12,500
Total Project Cost: $37,500
Funds Committed: None.
Project Description: WTCG has two therapists that are dedicated to working with the younger children and they are
both consistently booked two weeks out. In order to continue to meet this demand for services WTCG is requesting
funding to hire a LPC that specializes with children. The funding will allow WTCG time to sign the therapist up as a
provider on insurance panels as well as give them some time to establish their caseloads. The average time it takes to
become established with the insurance companies and build a caseload is three to six months. At this time, our greatest
need is to hire a therapist that will work with children 11 and under.
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