Each year, The Junior League of Houston, Inc. provides Community Assistance Grants to worthwhile organizations that do not receive ongoing volunteer support or financial assistance through the League’s Community Projects. The League’s Community Assistance Committee reviews the grant requests based on their alignment with member-determined impact areas and conducts site visits before making recommendations for funding. When selecting recipients, the committee considers whether an agency request would address a critical or basic need, fund a pilot project or expand a significant service to the community.

Community Assistance Grants are funded, in part, by the Barbara and Roy Adams Endowed Community Grant Fund held by the Junior League of Houston Foundation. This endowed fund was made possible through a generous estate gift from Barbara Beardmore Adams (1940 – 2014), a Junior League member from 1982 – 2014. This funding focuses on children’s health and well-being initiatives and literacy/education enrichment.

For 2023 – 2024, the League awarded $175,000 in Community Assistance Grants to the following agencies:

Arts Connect Houston – $10,000 to support School-to-Career Pathways in the Arts, a pilot program that connects young women who are high school juniors and seniors with arts and culture organizations for eight-week paid summer internships with a goal to expose students to jobs and careers available in the arts and culture sector.

ChildBuilders* – $10,000 to support the expansion of outreach to Brazoria County schools and provide customized, three-tier educational programs, training, and consultation to help children develop the mental health and resiliency skills foundational to academic success and future well-being.

Children’s Transplant Initiative – $15,000 to support the agency’s “R” Rooms – no-cost hospitality housing in private apartments near the Texas Medical Center (TMC) for low-to-middle-income families traveling from medically underserved areas for their children’s life-saving organ transplants at the TMC.

Clothed by Faith – $15,000 to support one week’s supply of gently used clothing to at least 500 children in need throughout the greater Houston area.

Community of Resources Houston – $14,500 to support the purchase of over 700 hygiene packs, consisting of underwear, menstrual pads, a pack of wipes, a bra, shampoo, conditioner, soap, and a resource sheet.

Gift of Adoption Fund – $10,000 to support awarding grants to complete the adoptions of at-risk children into families living in Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, and Waller Counties, TX.

GiGi’s Playhouse Houston* – $10,000 to support the launch of its 1:1 Math Tutoring program for participants and support the program through the pilot and first year of implementation.

GiGi’s Playhouse Sugar Land – $5,500 to support “LMNOP: Language, Music ‘N Our Peeps” which guides parents and infants through learning basic sign language and incorporating music and dance therapy into daily activities to stimulate the child.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft – $10,000 to support Craft Camp scholarships for low-income children and HCCC’s bringing high-quality art experiences directly to teachers and students in a Title 1 low-income school.

Houston Furniture Bank – $10,000 to support the No Kids on the Floor Project that provides twin mattress sets to children without a bed or a bed of their own in the greater Houston eight-county area.

The Jung Center – $10,000 to provide two half-day workshops for crisis counselors and one half-day workshop for school nurses during each of the fall and spring semesters.

The Landing – $10,000 to support the agency’s Empowerment Program to provide survivors of human trafficking with mentorship to develop economic empowerment, self-efficacy, and long-term stability.

Main Street Ministries Houston – $10,000 to support and expand a special Operation ID project at Wheatley High School.

Partnerschools, Inc. – $5,000 to connect the Music, Art, Theater, and Creative Writing departments from two different schools and facilitate their collaboration on interactive projects.

Re:MIND Depression and Bipolar Support* – $10,000 to expand education and awareness of children’s mental health awareness and free support groups for adolescents both in schools and in the community.

Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship – $5,000 to support equine-assisted services to nine groups of women or girls by partnering with organizations such as Her Well and Fort Bend Women’s Center.

Spring Branch Community Health Center – $15,000 to combine the agency’s prenatal education and nutrition initiatives.

*These agencies were funded in part by the Barbara and Roy Adams Endowed Community Grant Fund.