The Central Texas Food Bank (CTFB) is the leading hunger-relief nonprofit in Central Texas, working to provide immediate and equitable access to nutritious food for individuals across its 21-county service area.
Creekside Community Village is a transformative community, combining permanent supportive housing with life-giving community engagement.
Housing alone will not end homelessness, but community will. You can partner with Mission Waco to help provide low-cost permanent supportive housing to the homeless in McLennan County.
The C.A.S.T. for Kids Foundation enriches the lives of children with special needs, supports their families, and strengthens communities through the sport of fishing.
The Greater Waco Sports Commission is an independent non-profit organization that has been created to identify and attract new sports events while enhancing and retaining existing events to generate positive economic impact and enhance the quality of life in McLennan County.
Foster parents often feel tired and alone. Most families foster for less than a year, citing burnout and lack of support as the reason they stop. At the same time, 85 percent of people who are not foster parents say they care about vulnerable children and want to help.
Foster Village Waco bridges this gap between foster families and caregivers and those who want to help, meeting practical needs and providing holistic support beyond the system.
A source of help and hope. Archway of Hope offers helpful ideas for coping with grief and the many challenges that accompany such great loss. Paying special attention to grieving families as they face painful milestones. Archway strives to offer hope in a community that understands, and they find ways to help honor and remember the ones who left this world too soon.
The Hangar was originally an old abandoned Quonset Hut that was remodeled into a private residence. This is the heart of their mission. Inviting their homeless friends inside the home, and away from all of the stress that comes from the streets. This is where they spend time together investing in relationships, and these relationships are the foundation for everything they do.
Creative Waco is a nonprofit organization with a mission to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in Waco and McLennan County, Texas. As Waco and McLennan County’s arts agency, Creative Waco works to develop successful strategies for growing and supporting our cultural and creative community. It provides a platform for “joined up thinking,” allowing community members to set goals, access new funding, evaluate impact and identify needs.
The Imagination Library of Waco was started in 2020. The mission is to ensure that all children in Waco grow up surrounded by books. It’s that simple. Imagination Library of Waco is the local affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. As the local affiliate, we are responsible for enrolling children and funding the program. Imagination Library of Waco currently serves seven zip codes, with plans to expand to all of McLennan County.
The mission of JMB FIshing is to work to provide meaningful memories by pairing children with terminal illnesses and children with special needs, with veterans, wounded warriors, fishermen, hunters and outdoorsmen in great adventures.
