Grants That Make a Difference
"Grants that Make a Difference" highlights grants given to Southeastern organizations that have helped make a difference in people's lives. Getting the grant is only the beginning of the story. At least once a month, "Grants That Make a Difference" will profile these important grants and what their recipients are doing with them.
The University of Texas at Austin's Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has announced $4.6 million in grants to fifty
agencies across Texas as part of a special initiative to help mental health service providers meet growing community needs
amid increasingly limited resources.
The initiative was open to non-profit organizations that provide direct mental health services in Texas. The $4.6 million
was distributed among eight regions across the state, including the Houston area, where separate resources are dedicated
for the benefit of children and families.
The Special Mental Health Services Initiative grew out of reports of increasing pressures on mental health agencies across
the state, said Dr. King E. Davis, executive director of the foundation. "Clearly, many programs have reached a critical
point and need help in bridging service gaps," said Davis. According to state mental health service providers, nonprofit
agencies, and municipal governments, factors contributing to the problem include rapidly escalating medical costs and recent
changes to the financing and structure of the public mental health system. In addition, a growing number of persons with
mental illness have been reported showing up in emergency rooms, homeless shelters, and jails across the state.
The initiative is a departure from the Hogg Foundation's traditional philanthropic approach, Davis said, but "the acute and
obvious needs of these communities required that the foundation rethink its priorities and commit its resources in ways that
were sure to have the optimum positive impact during a period of uncertainty."
You can find a complete list of the grant recipients at the
Hogg Foundation Web site.
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, an administrative unit of The University of Texas at Austin, was established by the
children of former Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg. For more than 60 years, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has
managed both operating programs and grantmaking activities in support of mental health services, research, public policy
and education programs in Texas.
Grantmaker Contact Information:
Grantmaker Name: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Year Founded: 1930
Address: The University of Texas at Austin
P. O. Box 7998
Austin, TX 78713-7998
Phone: 512-471-5041 or 888-404-4336
FAX: 512-471-9608
URL: www.hogg.utexas.edu/
The selection of organizations for the "Grants that Make a Difference" is based on criteria such as programmatic interests, geographic focus, and size of funding programs to ensure the broadest possible representation of the region's nonprofit sector.
If you'd like to see support for your organization featured in "Grants that Make a Difference," e-mail a detailed description of the grant, including the name and contact information of the funder and of your organization, the amount given, and how the grant made a difference. For your convenience, we have provided a template to follow. We welcome press releases in addition to, or as a substitute for, the information in the template.
Email the description or press release to
atweb@foundationcenter.org, with "Grants that Make a Difference" in the subject line.
Recipient Name:
Project Name:
Organization Mission and how it relates to the project:
Beneficiaries or Community Impact:
Funding Partner(s): (Grantmaker Names)
Grant Amount:
Recipient Contact: Name, Address, Phone, Fax, E-mail, URL
Grantmaker Contact: Name, Address, Phone, Fax, E-mail, URL
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