LVTRise
LVTRise community center
LVTRise — the Las Vegas Trail Revitalization Project — has received a $300,000 grant from Communities Foundation of Texas to support its expansion and curation of services and other resources to best serve the community, specifically focused on technology and capacity building. The grant will be fulfilled over three-years.
“It is community partners like Communities Foundation of Texas that allow us to expand our program outreach while also facilitating the measurement and success of those programs,” says LVTRise Interim Director Paige Charbonnet in a statement. “We are grateful for this opportunity and look forward to witnessing firsthand how this positively impacts the LVT community.”
LVTRise received its first $100,000 grant distribution from CFT with funds directed to expand the community center’s services and invest in an efficient and comprehensive data gathering system to measure the impact the center and its services have on the community and residents. The LVTRise model, with its investment in information gathering systems, has the potential to be duplicated in similar communities throughout the county. The grant will potentially fund the expansion of the LVTRise team.
“We are thrilled to provide this multi-year investment in the LVTRise and the Las Vegas Trail Community,” says Wende Burton, chief philanthropy officer at CFT. “We know this funding will help LVTRise increase its capacity to meet growing needs and advance opportunity within the Las Vegas Trail Community.”
Current LVTRise programs include resources and support opportunities ranging from healthcare, food pantry, recreation and professional development that serve more than 12,000 community members each year. Further, 4,577 unduplicated community members have received access to social, educational, healthcare, job training, mental health, student support and after school activities at LVTRise annually. This relationship-based outreach strategy has created a grassroots support system for many families in this community and provides equitable resources for a neighborhood that speaks more than 32 languages and is a majority minority population.
Communities Foundation of Texas works locally and across the state through a variety of charitable funds and strategic initiatives. The public foundation professionally manages 1,200 charitable funds for individuals, families, companies, and nonprofits in addition to powering several key initiatives such as W.W. Caruth Jr. Fund at CFT, Educate Texas at CFT, and CFT's North Texas Giving Day.
CFT has awarded more than $2 billion in grants since its founding in 1953.