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Gallatin Shalom Zone (Gallatin, TN)- $25,000
Located in the heart of the most underserved population in Sumner County, Gallatin Shalom Zone is a multi-
resource community center providing life-enriching programs, activities, and opportunities that promote
wholeness and peace for a beautiful, livable community. They operate programs that serve children, youth, and
families. These programs include: After School Enrichment Program, Summer Street Feed, Summer Enrichment
Camp, Urban Leadership Experience, BotBall Coding and Robotics, Adult Education, and English as a Second
Language. GSZ also offers a community library, computer lab, public space, and recurring special events,
including Community Saturdays (quarterly), Thanksgiving for All, and Toys for Tots. GSZ is also the administrator
of the Sumner County Collaborative Group. The Rosendin Foundation will support its efforts to renovate the
historic Union High School, the first and only black high school in Sumner County, before desegregation. The
renovation will transform the historic building to make the spaces usable, including the kitchen, cafeteria,
classrooms, and gymnasium.
Project 150 (Las Vegas, NV) - $25,000
Project 150 provides free support and services to homeless, displaced, and disadvantaged high school students
to ensure they remain in school and graduate. The Rosendin Foundation will support its weekly direct food
distribution to 75 local high schools to ensure students have immediate access to food during the school day
and food for the family over the weekends. During the 2021/2022 academic year, Project 150 provided over
16,000 family meal bags to students and their families and delivered over $223k in food to high schools in
Southern Nevada.
Backpack Friends, Inc. (Pflugerville, TX) - $25,000
One in four children in Texas needs food while away from their school campus. Backpack Friends provides
healthy, nutritious, shelf-stable, kid-friendly foods through a weekend meal kit throughout the school year.
What began as a husband-wife volunteer team feeding 12 kids at a local elementary school is now an
organization that feeds more than 4,000 students each month and has delivered more than 85,000 meal kits
across 3 counties, 10 school districts, and 40 campuses. The Rosendin Foundation’s support will ensure an
additional 200 students are fed who are living in food insecurity in Pflugerville and Round Rock.
Grayson County Children's Advocacy Center (Sherman, TX) - $25,000
The mission of the Grayson County Children’s Advocacy Center is to provide a multidisciplinary collaboration
of services for the prevention, intervention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of child abuse and to
reduce trauma. The Rosendin Foundation supports its specialized therapy program that offers individual, family,
and group therapy to families referred to the mental health program. Trauma-specific mental health treatment
is evidenced-based and utilizes best-practice treatment models that have proven to facilitate recovery from
trauma by directly addressing the impact of trauma on a victim’s life. The mental health services provided by the
Grayson County CAC promote healing, lessen the likelihood of re-victimization, and decrease the ongoing and
long-term social, emotional, and developmental outcomes of trauma.
Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ) - $25,000
Chicanos Por La Causa emerged in 1969 as a result of walkouts and demonstrations organized by Mexican-
American community activists fighting for equity in Phoenix public schools. Now one of the largest Hispanic-
led 501 (c) (3) community development corporations in the nation, the organization remains committed
to supporting equitable access, not just to education but to multiple supports that impact prosperity and
well-being—housing, healthcare, quality jobs, and access to services. The organization addresses barriers to
economic prosperity and civic engagement facing low-income communities of color throughout the Southwest.
The Rosendin Foundation supports its Family Empowerment program for youth and family services to: 1) expand
access to fresh produce at CPLC Community Center’s food pantry; 2) expand SNAP outreach services to mixed-
status immigrant families at both community centers; 3) expand after school meals at Central Park Recreation
Center; and 4) increase awareness among families and teens about the availability of meals to school-aged
youth.