This week, GRACE held its annual Thanksgiving Food Distribution! Clients were given dinner packages containing all of the holiday staples and were met with the compassion of our wonderful volunteers.  This year, GRACE distributed 598 boxes over the course of three days! In the past, our Holiday Food Distribution has served a total of 800 families every year, which is expected to increase this year. We couldn’t begin to accomplish these numbers without the help of our volunteers! We would like to give a special thanks to this year’s volunteer groups: John Slocum & Friends, Good Shepherd Men’s Club, Baylor Scott & White, First Baptist Church Grapevine, Gateway, Faculty from Grapevine Middle School, Great Wolf Lodge, 121 Community Church, Grapevine Masonic Lodge, and St. Lawrence Church. Thank you for all of your hard work and smiling faces throughout the week!  Now, GRACE is gearing up for its December Food Distribution—

In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, GRACE offices have adjusted operating hours: GRACEful Buys Grapevine and Euless will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and reopen for Black Friday from 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Donation Station will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and resume normal hours on Friday, November 29th. GRACE Programs, Development, and Administrative offices will close at 3 p.m. on November 27th, and reopen on Monday, December 2nd.   If you are in need of emergency assistance that cannot wait until normal operating hours, please contact client services at 817.602.1204. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

The grace that rests on GRACE is our ability to demonstrate compassion, provide relief, and tailor care plans unique to every household that ensures both stability and a path to self-sufficiency. That personal touch can be trying at times especially for our care managers who hear the most heartbreaking of cases all day long. Our care managers are the hands of GRACE to each individual and family and they show an extraordinary amount of care to each one. In the last month, GRACE received a referral from one of our church partners about a client who was in dire need of our assistance. This single mother had been recently diagnosed with both breast and hip cancer and was in chronic pain due to her condition. She had been under immense stress, and the toll that the diagnosis took to her mental, physical, and financial well-being was significant. She provided her

Each year when the holidays roll around, the GRACE Christmas Cottage provides Christmas gifts for families who find themselves in need through a store-like shopping experience. The Cottage is open for two and a half weeks before Christmas, and all of the brand new toys and gifts donated by our community are displayed for shoppers to choose from. However, before any of the festivities can take place, there is a lot of work and shopping to be done! With the holidays fast-approaching, we need your help in collecting toys to fill our Cottage with Holiday cheer for our shoppers! If you would like to support Christmas Cottage with a new, unwrapped item for a child in need, we have you covered! Click HERE for a list of suggested toys for this year such as: Smaller bikes with training wheels Toddler ride-on toys Teen gifts Razor scooters Skateboards Sports Balls: footballs,

Thanks to all the wonderful sponsors of the GRACE Gala this year, and all other GRACE events and activities throughout the year. The generosity of these community-minded businesses and individuals is an inspiration to our staff who strive to make all those who support GRACE proud of the way we use their funds to help others. This year marks the 16th GRACE Gala with Classic Chevrolet in the title position. Classic owner Tom Durant and his wife Susan are the perfect example of community-minded business owners. Very few charitable events take place in north Tarrant County without the black and red Classic logo prominently displayed. But it is not just Classic’s dedication to their community that has made them the number one Chevy Dealer in the World and the largest Chevrolet Light and Medium Duty Dealer in the nation. It’s the staff. Classic’s employees support the community through charitable work,

On October 16th, GRACE Grapevine hosted a dazzling VIP party at the Glass Cactus nightclub within the Gaylord Texan Resort to express their gratitude to the generous Gala sponsors and VIP guests. The event marked the beginning of the celebration for this year’s Gala theme, “The Stories of GRACE.” This theme highlights the impactful stories that GRACE has been honored to be a part of and that underscore the importance of community partnerships. The exclusive event showcased the resort’s luxurious amenities and culinary excellence, offering guests a night of appreciation and excitement as the Gala Auction for this year’s event was unveiled. Guests were greeted by Justin and Theresa Mason, the Gala Chairs, and had the opportunity to mingle, enjoy drinks, and indulge in a tantalizing array of appetizers from the resort’s diverse dining options. The VIP party was generously sponsored by Chama Gaúcha Brazilian Steakhouse. Monica Forester, Marketing Manager

Congratulations to the staff of the GRACE Community Clinic! We have been awarded GOLD Plus Recognition for the eighth consecutive year for the Target: BP Program through the American Heart Association (AHA)! In summary, this means that over 70% of our clients with a hypertension diagnosis have been able to keep their blood pressure in check per the American Heart Association standards for blood pressure control. Our clinic’s percentage is 81% – which is incredible! The clinic was also honored to receive a Gold level recognition from the AHA as part of their 2024 Check. Change. Control. Cholesterol Achievement Award commending our ongoing commitment to lowering cholesterol and improving care management within our patient population and a silver level recognition from the AHA’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes program for our commitment to enhancing the quality of care for patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors. The Clinic provides patients with individual physician management for their

Financial instability is stressful, but it is something that each of us will face in some capacity and hopefully overcome. However, instability combined with a forever altered lifestyle due to a medical crisis is not. In September, GRACE care managers met with a client who was diagnosed with a blood clot in the brain which caused him to become blind. Blindness is a common symptom of a blood clot in the brain, and recovery is possible, but on a timeline of months, not weeks. After this life-changing diagnosis, the client almost immediately faced more distress. His marriage, unfortunately, deteriorated and he was left alone with limited resources and he became significantly dependent on others, including his best friend and his best friend’s wife. They helped him as much as possible but ultimately they reached out to GRACE on his behalf for our help. An application for Social Security Disability had been filed, but due to the lengthy process time,

All good things must come to an end and make way for something better! At the beginning of this year we started work with Voly- a comprehensive volunteer management platform- to create a unique website dedicated to our volunteers. Our goal was to streamline the volunteer process and create a one-stop-shop for volunteers to submit applications, sign up for volunteer opportunities, and track hours. With those in mind, we started work on the website and are excited to say our website is complete! We officially launched the website September 16th, and have seen a steady influx in volunteer sign-ups since then. It is so exciting to see familiar and new names roll into the site- We’re still in the early stages, but we can’t wait to see where this will take us! For those of you who are new to the website, below are the steps you will need to

FY24 Sets Service Provision Record. Again. Our GRACE family celebrated the end of our fiscal year on September 10, with a catered dinner, games, prizes, and good fellowship. The GRACE Fiscal Year runs September 1 through August 31, and each year we hold a “New Year’s Party” remembering the year just past, and the new one before us. There was a feeling of true joy in the air for a tremendous FY. We welcomed our new CEO, Rebecca Cox, at the beginning of Q2—December 4th to be exact—the day of the Christmas Cottage Open House. Rebecca was only the third chief executive in the 38-year history of GRACE, attesting to the long-term stability of our organization. Just a month earlier, we had completed our best GRACE Gala ever! With record net revenues, and net as a percentage of gross (an efficiency rating for special events) of an exceptional 73%, the