Grants & Scholarships

Applications must be postmarked by September 1 of each year
Applicants will be notified by December 14 of each year

Grants

Funding Priorities / Eligible Projects:

  • Applications are accepted from tax-exempt 501(c)(3) San Antonio regional organizations seeking funding of $2,500 or less for specific projects that will benefit economically, emotionally and/or physically disadvantaged individuals
  • San Antonio Junior Forum awards grants to organizations that support the mission of our organization – “to create a greater interest among women in civic, educational and philanthropic fields achieved by growth through service in programs which support and enrich the community”
  • Organizations must submit verification in the form of receipts and/or letter specifying that funds granted were utilized for the purposes for which they were granted

Grant Request Guidelines

Grants are not provided to fund:

  • Requests exceeding $2,500.00
  • Individuals, churches, schools (public or private), or national organizations that do not have local financially independent chapters
  • Organizations with provisional 501(c)(3) status

Grants should not be requested for:

  • Research
  • Salaries or wage compensation
  • Administrative expenses
  • Travel expenses
  • Political campaigns
  • Capital campaigns
  • Religious campaigns
  • Fundraising expenses including the purchase of tables, tickets or advertisements
  • General operating expenses
  • Endowments
  • Debt reduction
  • Acquisitions or construction of buildings
  • Routine equipment or facility maintenance
  • Purchase of vehicles

Grant Application Guidelines

All grant applications must be:

  • Submitted on the San Antonio Junior Forum Grant Application form

                SAJF GRANT APPLICATION - CLICK HERE

  • Complete, accurate and legible
  • Postmarked by September 1st
  • Inclusive of the original application and 2 copies
  • Inclusive of all supporting documentation for each copy of the application
  • Mailed to the following address:

San Antonio Junior Forum
15600 San Pedro, Suite 105
San Antonio, Texas 78232
Attention:  4th VP Grants/Scholarships

Supporting Documentation

The following supporting documentation must be attached to each copy of the application:

  • IRS letter ruling 501(c) (3) status
  • Certificate of General Liability Insurance
  • Most recent IRS Form 990 filing including Section A or financial audit for past fiscal year or financial statements for past two fiscal years
  • Organization’s General Budget
  • Project Budget
  • Project Timeline
Names and addresses of current Board members

Evaluation

All grant applications are reviewed and selected by the San Antonio Junior Forum Grants/Scholarships Committee and approved by the SAJF Board and SAJF general membership.  If the proposal is within the guidelines and interests as stated above, the following additional factors are taken into consideration:

  • Project’s ability to serve an adequate number of individuals
  • Project’s potential for success both immediately and ultimately
  • Project’s originality and low level of duplication
  • Project’s broadness of scope, intent, impact and outreach
  • Ratio of cost per person served to dollars requested

We are regretfully unable to support all worthwhile causes.  San Antonio Junior Forum gives preference to those organizations that best fit our grant criteria as stated above and which are responsive to critical community needs.

Tax Year and Anticipated Grant Funding

The San Antonio Junior Forum’s fiscal year is June 1st- May 31st.  The number of organizations funded will depend on the quantity and quality of grant applications received and reviewed.  Final grant total is contingent on the San Antonio Junior Forum’s fundraising efforts.  The selected applicants will be notified by December 14th.

Questions

Please forward all questions or requests to:

4th VP Grants/Scholarships
San Antonio Junior Forum
210-545-2187
grants@sajf.org






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American Cancer Society
Colleen Douglas, Regina Delgado (Community Manager – Health Initiatives), Anna-Melissa Cavazos (Director of Distinguished Giving), Liz Fox
Ronald McDonald House Charities – Elizabeth Medina (Executive Assistant, Ronald McDonald House Charities), Liz Fox, Pat Bivin (Executive Director, Ronald McDonald House Charities)
St. PJ’s Children’s Home – Colleen Douglas, Geraldine Martinez (Public Relations Coordinator/Volunteer Coordinator), Liz Fox
 

Tracey Mather, Brenda Allen and
Michelli Gomez (Program Director)

Grant Check presentation to
The Winston School San Antonio for extended day program.
Brenda Allen, Elizabeth Mather, Louise Pastorino (head of lower elementary school) and Tracey Mather

December 19, 2007
American Cancer Society
Liz Fox, Colleen Douglas, Anna-Melissa Cavazos (Director of Distinguished Giving) and Regina Delgado (Community Manager – Health Initiatives)

     

Childsafe
May 7, 2007

Lynda Alston, CEO & Executive Director
Vickie Ernst, Chief Operating Officer/VP
Sylvia Rendon, SAJF Grants/Scholarship Committee

Liz Fox & Gail Armstrong (Administrative Assistant – American Lung Association) April 29, 2008

Unicorn Centers, Inc May 7, 2008

Lawrence Davis, Director of Operations
Liz Fox, 4th VP Grants/Scholarships, SAJF John Schwab, Executive Director

SAJF Scholarship Recipients
2007-08 and 2008-09

SAJF evening with our scholarship recipients

May 2008

SAJF evening with our scholarship recipients

May 2008



San Antonio Junior Forum - Grant Recipients 2007-2008

Alamo Children's Advocacy Center (Childsafe)
www.childsafe-sa.org

American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org

American Lung Association
www.lungusa.org

The Arc of San Antonio
www.arc-sa.org

Bexar County Detention Ministries Inc
www.bcdm.org

Cancer Therapy and Research Center
www.ctrc.net

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of SA
www.ccaosa.org

Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas
www.cbcst.org

The Children's Shelter
www.childrensshelter.org

Christian Senior Services
www.christianseniorservices.org

Communities in Schools of San Antonio
www.cissa.org

Kinetic Kids
www.kinetickidstx.org

Methodist Mission Home
www.mmhome.org

Respite Care of San Antonio
www.respitecaresa.org

Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Antonio, Texas
www.ronaldmcdonaldhouse-sa.org

San Antonio Catholic Worker Community
www.sa-cwh@juno.com

San Antonio Food Bank
www.safoodbank.org

St Peter-St Joseph Children's Home
www.stpjhome.org

Unicorn Centers, Inc
www.unicorn.missionroadministries.org

Warm Springs Rehabilitation Foundation Inc. (OASIS)
www.oasisnet.org

The Winston School San Antonio
web@winston-sa.org



San Antonio Junior Forum - Grant Recipient Quotes 2007-2008

“The kind gift from the San Antonio Junior Forum will assist us as we strive to serve the abused and neglected children of our community. The average age of the children we serve is under the age of five years and almost all have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. We provide full medical care, schooling and, of course, a loving environment that helps them begin the healing process to overcome the horrors they have suffered. Your support will ensure that we are able to provide the finest quality of care to these children. We truly thank you and all the members of the San Antonio Junior Forum.”

   - Clyde J. Downey II, President/CEO, The Children’s Shelter

“On behalf of the Board and Directors and staff of Communities in Schools of San Antonio, thank you for the grant for our children’s gardening project. It is our goal that these projects will serve as ways for at-risk children to study nature, to learn positive work habits and to develop appropriate social skills. This grant will help to provide a quality program for many kids.”

   - Nancy Reed, Executive Director, Communities in Schools

“On behalf of St. Peter – St. Joseph Children’s Home’s Board of Governors, staff and especially the children who benefit from your kindness, it is my sincere pleasure to thank you for your recent gift of $2,500.00. Your donation is greatly appreciated and is critical in helping us to provide a home for children who have suffered from abuse, neglect, poverty and broken families.”

   - B.J. Mamuzic, Executive Director, St. PJ’s Children’s Home

“On behalf of the hundreds of families who will benefit from your generous contribution of $2,500.00 for transportation vouchers please accept our sincere appreciation. We know these vouchers will ease one of the worries of the families who call one of our three Ronald McDonald Houses “home”. Being in a strange city with an ill child is scary enough. Not knowing how you are going to get to the hospital or doctors visits makes it worse. Your thoughtfulness will allow us to alleviate that worry for some of the families who will stay with us in 2008.”

   - Pat Bivin, Executive Director, Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Antonio, Texas

“Thank you for your generous donation to the Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas in support of grieving children and their families. Your gift will help us ensure that grieving children, teens and young adults have a place to go for comfort; a place where hope is restored and healing begins.”

   - Traci Gomez, Executive Director, Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas

“I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank you for your generous donation in the amount of $2,500 to ChildSafe. Because of your support, we can continue to help San Antonio children who have been victimized by sexual abuse. Ours is the kind of work that is not attractive to society, so it takes the kindness and compassion of people like to you to ensure that abused kids aren’t lost in the system or left to fend for themselves.”

   - Lynda Alston, CEO & Executive Director, ChildSafe

“On behalf of the board and staff of Christian Senior Services, I would like to thank you and the San Antonio Junior Forum for your grant of $2,140 to purchase technology enhancements for our Meals on Wheels program. Every day, Meals on Wheels delivers over 2,500 meals to older adults who are nutritionally at –risk due to frailty, disability, or dementia and who do not have other means of securing healthy meals. With your support, Meals on Wheels is helping homebound seniors to continue living independently in their own home for as long as possible.”

   - Sharon Baughman, Executive Director, Christian Senior Services

“On behalf of everyone at The Arc, thank you for the San Antonio Junior Forum grant of $2,500. Your donation will allow us to purchase the computer and audio-visual equipment for our classrooms and community education programs. This grant will make a significant difference to the individuals in our day programs as well as the families and professionals who attend our free workshops and resource fairs. We appreciate that your members realize the impact this equipment will have on our ability to serve people with disabilities.”

   - Jack Minter, Executive Director, The Arc of San Antonio

"The Bexar County Detention Ministries, Inc. Board of Directors, staff, volunteers and clients thank you for your very generous donation of $2,500 to our 'Helping Women Back to Work program'. In calendar year 2007, BCDM significantly expanded our client base and numbers and types of programs and services we offer the incarcerated, those formerly incarcerated, and their family members. We provided chaplaincy and character development classes to over 25,000 adults and juveniles in 9 detention and treatment facilities in Bexar County. We provided chaplaincy and a wide variety of social services to 922 of the formerly incarcerated, their partners, children, parents, and other relatives in our outreach center, the Family Renewal Center. BCDM provides the only comprehensive, “one-stop” program for the formerly incarcerated in Bexar County. BCDM provides a vital ministry and significant social services in the community, but we could not continue to provide these services without the support of local organizations such as the San Antonio Junior Forum.”

   - Carol Lockett, Executive Director, Bexar County Detention Ministries, Inc.,

“On behalf of the entire Methodist Mission Home community I thank the San Antonio Junior Forum for granting our request for $2,500 in support of Shares in Caring. Your support for Shares in Caring will provide financial assistance to birth mothers and students in our Southwest Center for Higher Independence who have limited resources to meet their basic needs. We are honored to partner with the San Antonio Junior Forum in servicing the needs of our community. Thank you for your continued support in our ministry of Giving God’s Children a Faith, A Family, a Future.”

   - Jennifer Sample, Executive Director, Methodist Mission Home

Scholarships


Scholarships


In 1972, the first annual San Antonio Junior Forum Scholarship fund was established. Each year we present scholarships to local graduating high school seniors. Since 1972, more than $115,000 has been awarded.

San Antonio Junior Forum offers a minimum of (3) one-year scholarship annually.

  • The San Antonio Junior Forum Memorial Scholarship of $2000 is awarded each year to a graduating senior planning to attend any college/university in the USA

  • The San Antonio Junior Forum Presidential Scholarship of $2000 is awarded each year to a greater San Antonio area graduating senior planning to attend a college/university in Texas

  • The San Antonio Junior Forum Margaret Hudson Scholarship of $8000 is awarded every four years, apportioned at $2000 per year, to a graduating senior from Bexar County high school planning to attend a college/university in Texas

  • Other San Antonio Junior Forum Presidential Scholarships may be awarded if funds are available

Applicants must rank in the top 25% of their class and must be planning to attend a four-year college/university program in the fall.  Committee selection will be based on financial need, leadership, scholarship and character.  One nomination per school is accepted.

Applications are received through the Bexar County Scholarship Clearing House.

Emergency Requests

The Grants/Scholarships Committee has the authority to grant emergency requests, not to exceed $500.00 at one time and not to exceed $1,500 in a club year. These requests must have an immediate need that cannot be met within the normal Grants/Scholarships procedures.

All requests should be submitted to the VP of Grants/Scholarships.


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