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Youthbuild 1999 Grants: Project SummariesTexas
The Community Development Corporation, Brownsville, TX: The Community Development Corporation will receive a Youthbuild Implementation Grant in the amount of $400,000. The 30 participants will be learning on-site construction skills by working to rehabilitate 5 single-family homes and construct one new home. The homes are located in Cameron Park and the Rio Grande Valley Empowerment Zone. The program will provide a comprehensive and integrated effort to increase the academic, leaderships, and vocational skill level of trainees. Proposed cash and in-kind leveraging resources total $1,001,045 in support of this program. Key participants include: Brownsville Adult Literary Center, the University of Texas at Brownsville, Cameron Works, UT Permian-Basin in Odessa, TX, the Brownsville Jaycees, the Brownsville Independent School District and comprehensive support service network of over fifty organizations.
Contact Person: Don Currie
Grantee Address: 1150 E. Adams, 2nd Floor
Brownsville, TX 78520
Phone Number: (956) 541-4955
Caprock Community Action Association, Inc., Crosbyton, TX will receive a Youthbuild Implementation Grant for $300,000. The 20 participants enrolled will be learning on-site construction skills by working to build a triplex and one new home. The program addresses the need of providing disadvantaged youth an opportunity to gain employable skills and to address a major need in their community, affordable housing. The Caprock Community Action Association, Inc. will be providing a comprehensive program with emphasis on increasing the academics, leadership, and vocational skill level of trainees. The proposed Youthbuild will be supported by key partners and supporters such as South Plains Regional Housing Authority, South Plains Community Action Association, the Motivation Education and Training, Inc. (MET), the Texas Workforce Commission (Plainview), the City of Olton and the City of Plainview, and other local entities. The proposed cash and in-kind leveraging resources total $153,870 in support of this program.
Contact Person: Claudia Cowley
Grantee Address:
224 South Berkshire,
Crosbyton, TX 79322
Phone Number: (806) 675-7307
The Harlingen Community Development Corporation, Harlingen, TX will receive a Youthbuild Implementation Grant for $400,000. The 30 participants will be recruited for the purpose of providing them an opportunity to gain and improve their academic and vocational skills. The classroom training and on-site construction skills will enhance the likelihood of the participants to find employment in the construction trade. The trainees will get first hand knowledge of the construction trade by building five new single family homes for low income homeownership. The comprehensive program will increase the academic, leadership, and vocational skill level of trainees. The youth enrolled will participate in a community building program with emphasis on fulfilling a need of affordable housing for those economically deprived residents of Harlingen. The proposed cash and in-kind leveraging resources total $164,179 in support of this program. There are many key participants and supporters working to bring about this positive effort. They include: the Texas State Technical College in Harlingen, Cameron County Workforce Development Board (Cameron Works, Inc.), the Valley Homeless Coalition, the City of Harlingen's Community Development and Youth Services Divisions, the Texas Workforce Center, Rio Grande Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and other local businesses and banking institutions, as well as the HUD HOME program.
Contact Person: Fred Huerta
Grantee Address: 518 E. Harrison, Harlingen, TX 78550
The Houston Community College System , Houston, TX: The Houston Community College System will receive a Youthbuild Implementation Grant in the amount of $650,000. The applicant will recruit 30 at risk youth to participate in their program to enrich their lives through learning. To achieve this goal the participants will be improving their skills academically and vocationally.
They will receive on-site construction experience from trained instructors. The trainees will be working to construct 3-bedroom affordable homes, and rehabilitating more than half of the 245 unit low-income apartments. Some of these construction sites are located within Houston's Enhanced Empowerment Zones. The program will provide a comprehensive and integrated effort to increase the academic, leadership, and vocational skill level of trainees. The proposed cash and in-kind leveraging resources total $584,840 in support of this program. Key participants include: HCC-Central Construction Tech, HCC-Northeast Workforce Development, Houston Small Business Development Corporation, The Association for Advancement of Mexican-Americans (AAMA), Bank of America, and HCC along with other organizations and businesses committed to this project.
Contact Person: Patricia Ugwu
Grantee Address: P. O. Box 7849
Houston, TX 77270-7849
Phone Number: (713) 718-5209
Gulf Coast Trades Center, Inc. New Waverly, TX will receive a Youthbuild Implementation Grant in the amount of $398,522. The Gulf Coast Trades Center, Inc (GCTC) is an accredited occupational education facility and licensed residential facility serving adjudicated youth throughout the state of Texas. GCTC will operate a 24-month program with the dual objectives of training out-of-school youth in building and construction skills and constructing housing for homeless and low-income individuals and families. The 40 participants will build four homes on a site recently acquired by the applicant with HOME funds located in New Waverly in southern Walker County.
Contact Person: Thomas M. Buzbee
Grantee Address: Gulf Coast Trades Center, P.O. Box 515
New Waverly, TX 77358
Phone Number: (409)344-6677
The George Gervin Youth Center, San Antonio, TX, will receive a Youthbuild grant in the amount of $400,000. The applicant proposes to build 4 affordable rental units in a four-plex apartment building during the 24 month project. The 25 Youthbuild trainees will receive instruction in life skills, leadership, community service, GED preparation, entrepreneurial skills, and housing construction. Upon completion of the program, trainees who have achieved certain benchmarks will be given the opportunity to participate in a Youthbuild Internship program with the George Gervin Community Construction and Management Company. This project has $1,682,531 in other federal, State, local, and private dollars. Partners include the City of San Antonio, the San Antonio Enterprise Community Program, the San Antonio Housing Authority, San Antonio College, St. Philip's College, Texas Engineering Extension Service, Building Alternatives Charter School, Frost Bank, and Hixson Properties.
Contact Person: Phoebe Reeves
Grantee Address: 6903 Sunbelt Drive S
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San Antonio, TX 78218
Phone Number: (210)804-1786
Content Archived: January 20, 2009
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