Portfolio

DSVP's Social Investment Portfolio represents a diverse array of nonprofit agencies whose mission address children or education.  The missions address areas such as violence prevention, family services, college prep and life guidance, alternative education opportunities, parent involvement and training, and more.  The organizations reflect budgets under $100,000 and over $1 million.  Some are seasoned agencies in North Texas, others are just emerging.  The variety of missions and organizations are reflective of the diverse passions and interests of our partnership.

Agencies that no longer recieve direct funding from DSVP are denoted as emeritus.  Emeritus Investees represent the highest achievement attained by DSVP investees.  They continue to recieve limited partnership support, but continue to maintatin a strong relationship and connection.

  • Advanced Placement Strategies

    Advanced Placement Strategies (APS) works with Texas Schools to plan and manage Advanced Placement and Pre-AP incentive programs for students, teachers and schools in an effort to increase the number of students who pass AP exams.

  • Child Abuse Prevention Center

    Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Center breaks the cycle of child abuse by equipping parents and caregivers for success. CAP's mission resonates through four educational and counseling programs for families at risk for abuse. The Center works to empower its clients by teaching positive parenting methods and supporting parents in strengthening their families emotionally, economically, physically, and socially. CAP Center is a key provider of prevention services for at-risk children and families in Dallas County.

  • Dallas After School Network

    Dallas After School Network (DASN) is a membership-based organization focused on expanding the quality and availability of afterschool programs for the 135,000 Dallas children who require afterschool care. DASN provides professional resources and networking opportunities to afterschool providers and a web- and phone-based Program Locator to help parents locate afterschool programs.

  • Dallas Concilio of Hispanic Service Organizations

    The Dallas Concilio of Hispanic Service Organizations enhances the quality of life for Hispanics through community partnerships. With DSVP's assistance, the Parent Institute for Quality Education was incubated to train parents to take a participatory role in supporting their children's education, focusing on high school graduation and college attendance.

  • Educational First Steps

    Educational First Steps (EFS) improves the quality and availability of early childhood education for economically disadvantaged Dallas area children. This is done by providing services to EFS affiliated childcare centers and preschools in low-income areas. EFS provides teacher training, educational field trips, funding for classroom materials, professional consultation and assistance to affiliates in gaining national accreditation.

  • Mi Escuelita Preschool

    Mi Escuelita Preschool is an early childhood program dedicated to teaching English and developing early learning skills for at-risk children of all cultures for preparation towards a successful school experience. Established in 1978, today Mi Escuelita empowers young children with English through seven preschool centers located in Dallas.

  • National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

    The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) provides entrepreneurship education to young people from low-income communities, teaching business skills to start their own small business while reinforcing academic and life skills. NFTE aims to help young people unlock their true potential and find a pathway to prosperity, improving their lives and communities.

  • Shared Housing Center, Inc.

    Shared Housing Center, Inc. breaks the cycle of homelessness for the elderly, single parents with children, and persons with special needs. They offer non-traditional permanent and transitional housing solutions, as well as programs and services that create independence, empowerment and self-worth.

  • The Samaritan Inn

    The Samaritan Inn was established in 1984 as a comprehensive homeless program that helps willing people gain dignity and independence. DSVP's grant has been used to support children's programming which includes opportunities to complete homework assignments, receive tutoring, participate in extracurricular activities that enhance their education and attend group and individual counseling sessions.

  • The Wilkinson Center

    The Wilkinson Center serves homeless, working poor, and families in need. The Center provided services to more than 26,000 people in 2007, half of them children. Through a wide array of programs, ranging from food and clothing distribution, to career development, computer education, children's programs, and emergency assistance, The Wilkinson Center provides pathways for people seeking to reclaim their lives from poverty.

  • The Youth Village Foundation

    The Youth Village Foundation is dedicated to helping juvenile offenders, ages 10 to 17 years old, reach their law abiding potential and to diverting them from further involvement with the juvenile justice system or progression to greater offenses. We are committed to putting positive outcomes within their reach and bolstering the success of the work done by the Dallas County Youth Village and Medlock programs.

  • Transition Resource Action Center

    Transition Resource Action Center (TRAC) is a regional one-stop center that works with young adults transitioning out of foster care to independent living. TRAC offers skill training, access to affordable housing, livable-wage jobs, and a safety net of community support. At TRAC, young people have opportunities to become independent, contributing citizens by realizing their full potential as they transition toward young adulthood.

  • UPLIFT Education

    Uplift Education is dedicated to operating open-enrollment charter schools that provide a quality education in underserved neighborhoods by raising and continually maintaining high expectations for students and staff. Uplift currently operates five campuses and will serve 3500 students in 2008-2009. It is Uplift's goal to dramatically increase the number of students from all backgrounds who are provided a high quality public education so that they can succeed in college and In life.

  • Vision Regeneration

    Vision Regeneration facilitates and maintains peace treaties between gangs that deter potential violence while providing life skills training to teens that have no hope of a future outside of violence without some type of reality-based intervention. The youth served by Vision Regeneration have witnessed significant violence, experienced poverty and are, in short, street smart. Vision is unique and innovative in its approach to reclaim at-risk youth by employing ex-offenders and nontraditional leaders who speak their language and promote gang prevention and intervention, social interaction, faith and positive expression while ensuring a nonviolent and social civility environment in and around schools.