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The Texarkana Area Community Foundation makes grants for a variety of chairitable purposes and in communities served by the local foundation. Click here to learn how your organization can apply for a grant through TACF.
Grants are funded through the thirty-one charitable endowments and scholarship endowments managed by the Texarkana Area Community Foundation. During fiscal year 2006-07 over $150,000.00 in grants were awarded, providing much needed assistance to local charitable organizations, such as:
- Junior Achievement-Texarkana Area
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- Texarkana Resources for the Disabled
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- Texarkana Friendship Center
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- Caddo Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
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- Little River County Historical Society
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- Texas A&M University-Texarkana
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- Greater Texarkana People's Clinic
| Below, see examples of grants at work touching people and communities:
Grant Helps Handicapped
A scholarship grant provided hippo-therapy horseback riding for this handicapped person. This unique therapy works wonders, helping individuals improve balance, mobility, strength, and speech while building self confidence.
Volunteers at Runnin' WJ Ranch administer a
riding therapy session for a handicapped person.
Youth Learn Benefits of Philanthropy
The Youth Advisory Council (YAC) affords students the opportunity to learn about philanthropy and it's benefits. Through a YAC program students make grants that address issues effecting youth. This group of students surveyed more that 100 students to find their priority concerns. The survey revealed that teen pregnancy and substance abuse were the prime areas of concern. The group then solicited grant proposals from organizations that worked with youth in these areas. Grant applications were evaluated and the group voted to make an $835.00 grant to 1st Choice Pregnancy Resource Center to purchase educational materials for one of their teen pregnancy prevention programs. Grant funds are available from the YAC Endowment established by the Texarkana Area Community Foundation.
YAC students present grant to 1st Choice Pregnancy
Resource Center
Two Rivers Museum Receives Grant
The Little River County Historical Society is renovating an architecturally unique building into the Two Rivers Museum in Ashdown, AR. They applied for and received a grant to assist with the restoration and furnishings for the museum.
Museum board members Clayton Castleman, John Finley
and Sue Mills discuss with visitors the exhibit honoring WWII
veterans from Little River County.
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