“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
San Antonio Junior Forum offers a minimum of (3) one-year scholarship annually.
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.
All requests should be submitted to the VP of Grants/Scholarships.
