Our mission is intersecting faith and community to empower
Grayson County families to end child homelessness.
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Message from our Director |
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Wow! There are so many great things happening in our community! Guests have graduated from our program, school has started, North Texas Giving Day is coming up soon, and the Bed Race Relay is just a month away! Read the exciting details below.
In addition to our rotation program, we currently are serving 18 families in our Family HOPE program aimed at preventing homelessness. This means that through your support, we have helped 41 children and 30 adults remain in their homes! Kudos to you!
Happy September!
Leigh
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It's that time of year: grocery stores have started marketing pumpkin spice flavoring, school zones have returned to 20 MPH, and families are posting back to school pictures. We are proud of our Family Promise families, and we thought you would enjoy seeing some of their back to school pictures! We hope everyone has a great year! |
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Time is running out!
September 17th
is the Bed Race Relay deadline!!
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Time is running out quickly for sponsorships and team entries for the Bed Race Relay! You do NOT want to miss this opportunity to have a lot of fun while helping families in our community. In order to be recognized on car magnets, banners, T-shirts, and social media, sponsorships and team entries must be received by September 17th. That gives you two weeks to round up some fun friends and form a team! Every heat winner will receive a prize! Overall winners also will receive the Grand Prize!
Thank you so much to the following businesses for sponsoring this year's Bed Race Relay:
Queen: Hebron Baptist Church
Full: Reinert Family Dentistry, Georgetown Baptist Church, Ruiz Foods, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Visionary Home Health Care, LLC
Twin: Independent Bank, Jim McClure State Farm, Sanders, Motley, Young, & Gallardo, PLLC, Hagerman Baptist Church, Graber & Walker, LLP, Riverbend Cabinets, LLC
Crib: Dayton Tire Sales, Bayless-Hall Insurance, Lloyd Plyler Construction, BancorpSouth, Texoma Eye Associates, Sher-Den Realty, Inc., Simmons Bank, Edward Jones, Neal Alexander
To support the Family Promise mission and become a Bed Race Relay sponsor, click here!
This fun and exciting event will held on Main Street in Denison during the Denison Fall Festival on October 2nd! You don't want to miss it!
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Another success story stitched up! |
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Congratulations to our most recent graduates! Kyla and Tyler recently graduated from our program into their own home! To celebrate their success, and to help them feel cozy in their new place, the Sherman Quilt Makers presented this hard working mom with a beautiful, handmade quilt! Thank you to the Quilt Makers for sharing their time and talent with us, and special thanks to Mary Jacobs for delivering the quilt. We always are so happy when our families achieve their goals!
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Thank you to Nikki Newton and the Grayson County CAC! |
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Thanks to the expert training provided by Nikki Newton of the Grayson County Children's Advocacy Center, Family Promise staff and several volunteers now know how to recognize and report signs of child abuse. While this is not a topic one wants to think about, it is critical information to have and is invaluable for anyone who works with children. We are so grateful to Nikki and the CAC for making this class available to us. We feel so strongly about the importance of this topic, that we will host another training session for those who missed it this time. Stay tuned for future class information! |
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Do You Know... about the Family Promise Star? |
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Our logo, used by all Family Promise Affiliates across the nation, includes a 5-point star.
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The points of the star represent the 5 Key Elements of Family Promise. These include:
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Shelter--We provide shelter to families after they lose their homes.
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Prevention--We prevent families from losing their homes.
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Stabilization--We offer stabilization services to families after they find housing.
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Community--We serve families through a community-based response.
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Promise--We promise to work until every family has a home to call its own.
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North Texas Giving Day is just around the corner! This is an 18-hour online giving event designed to empower every person to give back to their community by supporting local nonprofits and causes they care about in one easy-to-use platform. NTX Giving Day is the largest community-wide giving event in the nation. Despite the pandemic, in 2020, 106,000 donors contributed $58.8 million to 3242 non-profits in North Texas!
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During NTX Giving Day, everyone has the opportunity to be a philanthropist to build a stronger and more vibrant community. Please consider including Family Promise of Grayson County among the non-profits you support!
While the official Giving Day is Thursday, September 23, early giving starts today, September 1st! To make a donation now, click here, or go to northtexasgivingday.org and search for Family Promise of Grayson County. There will be a kick-off rally the morning of the 23rd at First United Bank on Taylor Street in Sherman. There will be coffee and food trucks on site and you can watch directors of area non-profits run in a three-legged race! Of course, donations will be accepted there, as well. Thank you for your support!
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In case you skimmed through the article above, the Bed Race Relay is an annual fundraiser for Family Promise of Grayson County. You won't want to miss out on the fun! Put together a team of 5 people today--the relay is geared towards people of all ages.
The more donations your team brings in, the more time is deducted from your race time, and the more families we can serve! There are fun prizes! Be a winner and sign up on our web site at familypromisegrayson.org.
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Kindness matters. One kind word can change someone's entire day! |
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If you would like to learn more about Family Promise of Grayson County including:
- How to participate
- How to volunteer
- How to support through donations
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