ZWHJCOC News | April 28, 2020 Newsletter

April 28, 2020

North Texas Giving Tuesday Now

Tuesday, May 5 from 6 a.m. to midnight

The Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Community Outreach Center invites you to help us reach our goal of raising $20,000 on North Texas Giving Tuesday Now.

On May 5, our community will come together for North Texas Giving Tuesday Now, an emergency giving day to support the nonprofits in the region. As you know, our work has been challenged by the current climate and the impact of COVID-19 on our community, region and world.

If you can, we’re asking for your support on this emergency giving day, to help us continue our work, serving those who rely on our services and providing resources for our staff and volunteers to continue forging ahead.

In the past few weeks, the ZWHJCOC team has helped 20+ small businesses apply for SBA relief grants. Additional funds will help service more individuals and businesses who need economic guidance, as well as help to build our online platform to engage with the community in a new way. We hope to continue the work of our Lunch & Learn series which provides classes on finances, credit and credit repair, real estate, wills, taxes, fraud prevention, grant writing, and so much more, plus our successful Low Voltage training programs, and other learning opportunities provided by our community partners.

Did you know? Through its programs and services, the ZWHJCOC and its partners served 4,382 individuals from June 2018 to October 18, 2019. Please consider making a gift to the Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Community Outreach Center to ensure that our work continues in our community. Early Giving is open now.

Click here to give.

https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/zan-wesley-holmes-jr-community-outreach-center

This day is made possible by the collaboration of Communities Foundation of Texas' North Texas Giving Day, the Dallas Cowboys, and the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.

$5000 Matching Grant Available

from the North Texas Conference

To boost our efforts, the North Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has pledged a matching grant of $5000. If we raise at least $5000, the Conference will provide a $5000 matching gift for Frazier House, the ZWHJCOC initiative which offers multiple services partnering and collaborating with other community nonprofits, service organizations and the Dallas ISD. Clients are given access to educational, social services, job skills training and job placement opportunities.

Currently, financial planning and case management classes, help with SBA relief grants and empowering classes for small businesses and nonprofits are being offered via Zoom and Facebook Live.

“We are grateful to partner with you in the work you continue to do in these unprecedented times of this COVID-19 pandemic,” said Jurrita Williams Louie, Associate Director—Center for Missional Outreach of the North Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. This matching opportunity is made possible through the North Texas Disaster Relief Fund, to which many around the conference have donated during previous times of duress.

Join us in working to reach our goal.

ZWHJCOC's mission is to help create self-sustaining pathways out of poverty for young people and families in Dallas through education and job placement.

Learn more about us at zwhjcoc.org!