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2022 Family Giving Circle

The Family Giving Circle is a learning opportunity for families and youth to learn, volunteer, and grant together in the Greater Houston area. The Family Giving Circle is led by the Youth Leadership Team, a peer network of students in seventh through tenth grades interested in learning about the nonprofit landscape and how to be a thoughtful and strategic grantmaker. The Family Giving Circle offers grantmaking opportunities every year, where members of the Youth Leadership Team develop a mission statement and pick a relevant community issue to learn about and give to each year. Since 2017, the Family Giving Circle has granted over $120,000 to over 25 different nonprofits!

SPRING 2022 FAMILY GIVING CIRCLE MISSION STATEMENT:

To support organizations spreading awareness, taking preemptive measures, as well as assisting and supporting survivors of domestic violence with services including, but not limited to, counseling/ mental health support, financial assistance, and housing in the greater Houston community.

FALL 2022 FAMILY GIVING CIRCLE MISSION STATEMENT:

To support organizations providing urgent and long-term needs including, but not limited to shelter, housing, nutrition, mental health needs, and educational/mentoring services, to at-risk and homeless youth aged 17 and younger in the greater Houston area.

Youth Leadership Team

BELLA CHRAMOSTA

Tenth Grade Episcopal High School

MOLLY DINERSTEIN

Tenth Grade Kinkaid High School

CHRISTOPHER LAPORTE

Eighth Grade St. John’s School

ELLIE TELLEPSEN

Ninth Grade Memorial High School

GRAYSON WEEKLEY

Tenth Grade Memorial High School

SAWYER WEEKLEY

Seventh Grade Spring Branch Middle School

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2022 FAMILY GIVING CIRCLE GRANT RECIPIENTS!

Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse’s mission is to end family violence by advocating for the safety and self-determination of victims, promoting accountability for abusers, and fostering a community response to abuse. AVDA is dedicated to providing multilingual, transformational, life-saving services to survivors of abuse and their families.

Daya empowers South Asian survivors of domestic and sexual violence through culturally specific services and educates the community to end the cycle of abuse.

Houston Area Women’s Center serves thousands of women, children, and families each year to escape domestic violence, sexual assault, or sex trafficking. They help survivors transform their lives, free from violence.

Houston reVision works to break the cycle of isolation among the most profoundly disconnected youth, most of whom are caught up in the juvenile justice system. By connecting one kid at a time to caring adults, positive peers, and a program that works, they offer disconnected youth the opportunity to reVision hopeful pathways.

SEARCH pursues a mission of providing hope, creating opportunity, and transforming lives for thousands of men, women, and children experiencing homelessness in our community. They help clients obtain permanent housing, increase their income, improve their health, develop their children, and regain their stability and self-sufficiency.