2015 - 2016 Merced Foundation Grantees
Grant recipients during 2015 - 2016 were groundbreaking for Merced Foundation and were able to teach us how much of an impact their organisations can make in peoples lives. Creating food banks, adding opportunities for further education during incarceration, working with ending homless were some of the begininging efforts that inspired Merced Foundation to keep supporting non profit organizations in Texas and to learn more about how they can continue to focus on transitional periods, enabling people to create a brighter future.
The Merced Foundation Food Center
The Merced Foundation has worked with Mainstream Connection in 2015 and 2016 donating funds to build a distribution center to help organize and store food and basic necessities support to the Houston region.
GoodWill Excel
Merced Foundation has partnered with Gooodwill Excel to provide education materials and support for their ongoing mission to educate and add value to the Austin community.
Prison Entrepreneurship Program
PEP is an established non profit organization who works tirelessly to help provide resources and value based business skills to inmates in their program, equipping them to lead productive lives in their community. Merced Foundation has donated in 2015 and 206 to add further value and support to their ongoing mission to transform lives.
Caritas of Austin
Caritas of Austin is working to prevent and end homelessness in Austin, building wellbeing by making sure hundreds of people each year have access to safe homes, jobs that provide a reliable living wage, and the opportunity to learn life skills. Recent Merced Foundation investments in Caritas’s Employment Services have enabled more than 600 clients to connect with jobs that put their unique skills and experience to work.