Alzheimer's

American Red Cross - San Antonio Chapter 

Battered Women's Shelter

Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc.
Battered Women's Shelter of Bexar County
7911 Broadway St
San Antonio, TX 78209-2601  
Phone: 733-8810
Fax: 821-6194
Web Site: http://www.fvps.org

Provides safe shelter, transition to self-sufficiency, counseling and advocacy for victims of family violence. Counseling for batteries. Community education and violence prevention services 

Other Local Resources and Links

Boystown

"Changing the way America cares for her youth and families."

Boystown has grown & expanded their programs here in San Antonio to work with boys, girls and families.  They take their job of caring for America's at-risk youth very seriously.

Boystown presently operates an emergency children's shelter, 5 long-term residential homes, and a family preservation program all here in San Antonio.   All money given to the San Antonio site stays in San Antonio.

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Blessed Sacrament Academy

The Academy has been providing education to our community since 1932.  Their current mission is to provide support to low-income families who, because of poverty and lack of options, are in special need of education and training.   Their efforts focus on three programs. 

• The Child Development Center opened in 1989 for full-time education of underprivileged children up to the age of five. 
• Second Chance High School opened in 1990 to provide an alternative high school for dropouts.  Over 700 students graduated from 1990-1998 and 75% of them earned college scholarships.
• The Parents Academy was established in 1993 to teach these skills to parents, grandparents or other custodial adults.  Funding for these programs comes from contributions from the community and some federal grants.
  

The Mission of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) is to provide current, comprehensive and compassionate multidisciplinary patient treatment, to tirelessly devote time and resources to research that will facilitate the discovery of the causes, prevention, treatment and cure of cancer, and to promote cancer education and prevention practices.

The CTRC is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary, outpatient clinic and research center. The CTRC and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) have formed a research consortium called the San Antonio Cancer Institute. This consortium is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)- designated Clinical Cancer Center.

Through this affiliation, the CTRC's Institute for Drug Development provides Phase I clinical trials to patients throughout the world - one of only a number of organizations approved by the NCI to conduct such trials. The Institute for Drug Development (IDD), is a division of the CTRC Research Foundation and, in collaboration with UTHSCSA, works to accelerate the development of anticancer agents through the integration of basic, transitional and clinical research.

Child Advocates of San Antonio serves as an independent voice in the court for the abused and neglected children of Bexar County, through the use of court-appointed special advocates, for timely and permanent placement of children into safe, stable, and nurturing families.

Who Are the Children? - Child Advocates' children are abused and neglected.   They often live day-to-day with no sense of security or permanence and frequently learn not to count on anything or anyone.  Child Advocates' children are away from their homes. Although they are placed in foster care for their own safety, the trauma of being separated from their families and friends and experiencing extended temporary placements can be an abuse of a different kind.
Child Advocates' children must depend on overworked judges and caseworkers to decide their futures.  The abuse/neglect system that seeks to protect the children is crowded with such cases.  Please help Child Advocates' children so they don't get lost in the system. 

Children's Habitation Center

Easter Seals

Phone: 210-916-6000
Fax:      210-916-6488
Manager: Inge Godfrey
Email:  FHBAMC@aol.com
URL:  http://www.fisherhouse.org/theHouses/texas.shtml

About the Houses

Overview:
A Fisher House™ is "a home away from home" for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers. The homes are normally located within walking distance of the treatment facility or have transportation available. There are 33 Fisher Houses, with six more in construction or design. Learn more about Future Houses.

Description
Typically, the houses are 5,000+ to 16,000 square foot homes donated by the Fisher family and Fisher House™ Foundation. Each house is designed to provide eight to 21 suites. All are professionally furnished and decorated in the tone and style of the local region. The houses can accommodate 16 to 42 family members. They feature a common kitchen, laundry facilities, spacious dining room and an inviting living room with library, and toys for children. A Fisher House™ is a temporary residence and is not a treatment facility, hospice or counseling center. The program began in 1990, and has offered more than 1-1/2 million days of lodging to more than 70,000 families.

Responsibilities

Fisher Houses™ are given to the U. S. Government as gifts. Military service secretaries and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs are responsible for the operation and maintenance of the homes. The Fisher House™ Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, builds new houses, and assists in the coordination of private support and encourages public support for the homes.

Eligibility and Cost

Criteria established locally by hospital or installation commanders. Cost varies by location. Average charge for lodging in 2005 was less than $10 per family per day. Ten locations, to include all VA Fisher Houses, offer free lodging. Families of service members hospitalized due to service in Iraq or Afghanistan do not pay the daily fee.

Volunteers

Fisher Houses™ have full-time salaried managers, but depend on volunteers and voluntary support to enhance daily operations and program expansion. The Fisher House™ Foundation, Inc., and many individual Fisher Houses™ receive support through the Combined Federal Campaign.

2005 Highlights

· Families served: 8,000
· Average length of stay: 12 to 14 days (non-OIF/OEF) or 45 to 60 days for OIF/OEF patientsbr> · Average occupancy level: 90%
· Average cost per day: Less than $10
· Saved families more than $7 million in lodging costs, plus food and transportation

Since Inception

· Families served: More than 70,000
· Number of lodging days: 2 million
· Saved families more than $60 million in lodging costs, plus savings on subsistence and transportation costs.
 

America Supports You Program

Thousands of Americans are already showing their support for our military men and women. You can join the team, send messages to the troops, and obtain materials for developing your own support program.

Learn more about this program
 

Help Sponsor a Family

Your gift will be used to help meet the cost of lodging for a family whose loved one was injured in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. There is a limit to the number of families who can stay in a Fisher House™. We are committed to help provide lodging for families who must find commercial lodging, because the Fisher House™ is full.

Make a Contribution
With your support, we are proud to have provided over $500,000 in assistance to Iraqi Freedom families. When the value of donated airline tickets is added, the total savings to families is more than $6.5 million!

Help Provide for Basic Needs

Fisher House™ supports military personnel wounded in action and those seriously ill being treated in military hospitals in the U.S. and overseas. Your donation of "Gifts from the Homefront" certificates will ease the burden for military personnel and their families at a most stressful time in their lives.

Give a "Gift from the Homefront"
With your support, we are proud to have provided over nearly $100,000 in assistance through "Gifts from the Homefront."

Help Provide Food and Staples

Fisher House™ is proud to be one of a select group of national organizations participating in special program that provides military families in need with gift certificates that can be used to buy food and staples through the commissary (the military's grocery store). Your gift help meet the basic needs of a family during a stressful time.

Provide Food and Staples
With your support, we are proud to have provided nearly $100,000 in assistance through Certifichecks.

Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

The Fund formerly provided cash grants to the families of service men and women who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. Since the passage of legislation that provides $500,000 to the family of each service member killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is now using its donations to build the "Center for the Intrepid," a world class, state of the art physical rehabilitation center, at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Learn more about this program
 

The Fisher House™ Program

The Fisher House™ program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their time of need. The program recognizes the special sacrifices of our men and women in uniform and the hardships of military service by meeting a humanitarian need beyond that normally provided by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.

Because members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, Fisher House™ Foundation donates "comfort homes," built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. These homes enable family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful times - during the hospitalization for an unexpected illnes, disease, or injury.

There is at least one Fisher House™ at every major military medical center to assist families in need and to ensure that they are provided with the comforts of home in a supportive environment. Annually, the Fisher House™ program serves more than 8,500 families, and have made available more than two million days of lodging to family members since the program originated in 1990. Based on a comparison of fees at a Fisher House™ (the average charge is less than $10 per family per day, with many locations offering rooms at no cost) with commercial lodging facilities in the same area, it is estimated that families have saved more than $60 million by staying at a Fisher House™ since the program began.

In addition to constructing new houses, Fisher House™ Foundation continues to support existing Fisher Houses™ and help individual military families in need. Families and friends of patients at any of the military's hospitals can now receive up-to-the-minute reports on a loved one by going to the patient's own customized web page, thanks to new services provided through CaringBridge. We are also proud to administer and sponsor Scholarships for Military Children, the Hero Miles program, and co-sponsor the Newman's Own Award.

The mission of the San Antonio Food Bank is to acquire and distribute at the lowest possible cost adequate and nutritious food and related products to charitable organizations that provide for needy individuals and families.

Give Kids the World

Give Kids The World Village is a non-profit resort that creates magical memories for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Wish-granting organizations coordinate transportation to Orlando, while Give Kids The World provides accommodations at its whimsical resort, donated attractions tickets, and meals for a week-long fantasy vacation. Since its founding in 1986, Give Kids The World has welcomed families from all 50 states and 50 countries.

Give Kids The World Village
210 South Bass Road
Kissimmee, FL 34746
407-396-1114
(800)-995-KIDS

The heritage of Give Kids The World and Henri Landwirth was to ensure that no child would ever be refused their one special wish. 

Incarnate Word University Scholarship

The Make-a-Wish Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to the purpose of granting wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Head-quartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is the largest wish-granting organization in the world. More than 83,000 wishes have been granted since 1980. Over 1,200 wishes have been granted by the Central and South Texas Chapter since 1985.

Man and Beast Organization

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March of Dimes
8431 Fredericksburg Rd Ste 100
San Antonio, TX 78229-3364  
(210) 696-1030

With the worthy goal of preventing birth defects, the March of Dimes collects millions of dollars in donations annually. But most donors who generously open their pocketbooks are unaware that their gifts help to fund painful experiments on animals. The March of Dimes has funneled millions of dollars into laboratory studies on primates, rats, mice, cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, sheep, guinea pigs, opossums, and members of other animal species.

Both animals and human babies are the losers, because every dollar spent to harm these animals is a dollar that could have—and should have—been used to help people.

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Multiple Sclerosis

  Parkinson's Disease Organization

Rape Crisis Center
5835 Callaghan Rd, #260
San Antonio, TX 78228
Phone: 521-7273
Fax: 521-7278
Web Site: http://rapecrisis.com

Provides free advocacy service, 24-hour/7-day crisis intervention hotline services and on-site counseling to victims of sexual assault and their families, and a community education speakers' bureau to reduce the incidence of sexual assault.

Salvation Army
The Salvation Army of Greater San Antonio Metropolitan Area
PO Box 12568
San Antonio, TX 78212
Phone: 352-2000
Fax: 352-2005
Web Site:http://www.salvationarmysatx.org
You may also mail contributions to:
     "Disaster Relief Fund"
      c/o American Red Cross
      San Antonio Chapter
      3642 E. Houston,
      San Antonio, TX 78219

The Salvation Army is currently providing services to storm victims and first responders in the Gulf Coast states.

A $100 donation to The Salvation Army will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit, containing brooms, mops, buckets, and cleaning supplies. 

Operates social services center, home for girls, a boys & girls club, fully licensed day-care and two community centers.

Command Comal County Office (Salvation Army Flood Victim Relief)
373 B Landa Street
New Braunfels, TX 78130
Phone Number (830) 608-9129

San Antonio River Mud King

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
www.sakomen.org

U.S. MARINE CORPS RESERVE "TOYS FOR TOTS" PROGRAM

TOYS FOR TOTS - U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Program Collecting new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each 
year and distributing those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted. Our message to the children is one of hope to that will motivate them to grow into responsible, productive, patriotic citizens and community leaders. Our program unites all members of local communities in a common cause to contribute to better communities in the future. Campaign Coordinators conduct an array of activities throughout the year, which include golf tournaments, foot races, bicycle races and other purely voluntary events designed to increase interest in Toys for Tots, and concurrently generate toy and monetary donations. 
http://www.toysfortots.org   

Trinity University Scholarship.  
Trinity University, founded in 1869, is an independent university dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.  Today, Trinity offers 34 undergraduate majors in 25 departments.  Student-faculty ratio is 11-1 with 97% of the faculty holding the highest degrees in their field.

Wildlife Refuge

The Mission of Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc. (WRR)
The WRR  is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of orphaned, injured and disabled wildlife. WRR also provides permanent care for non-indigenous wild animals who have been victimized by the exotic pet trade, rescued from roadside zoos, or retired from research facilities. Indigenous animals who, due to severe injuries have been deemed non-releasable, are also given permanent care at the sanctuary. The organization serves the city of San Antonio, all surrounding counties, as well as the entire state of Texas. WRR also provides assistance on a national basis to wild animals in need of rescue. WRR maintains a 24-hour animal emergency hotline available seven days a week, 365 days a year. WRR relies on the expertise of over 200 trained volunteers to respond to calls and provide hands on rescue.

Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc.
P.O. Box 34FF
San Antonio, Texas 78201