Program areas at CF
One of the four focus areas of the Madison Alexander Cooper and Martha Roane Cooper Foundation is community building and social services in the waco area. During the fiscal year, grants were made for the following purposes: a community awareness event about foster care, race equity trainings to community leaders, grief resource books and oxygen concentrators for hospice patients and their families, financial assistance to families recovering from a home fire, support for blood drives, a matching gift to raise funds to build a habitat home, to conduct an organizational assessment, operating expenses & a donor management system, engagements with neighborhood residents, casa staff positions, programming to support the transition from high school to workforce and college, program support for girl scouts beyond bars, salary for a legal advocate at the family abuse center, renovation and capital projects at talitha koum, operating funds for prosper waco, and to support the partners for places program to support composting and gardening education.
Three more focus areas for the Foundation are education, health, and senior citizens. During the fiscal year, the Foundation made grants for the following purposes: stem+ summer camp, behavioral health "crisis hub,"support for the healthy women & children coalition, purchase of an ekg machine for specialty clinic, mammography screening, hvac replacement & server updates, roof repair, and to support a therapeutic initiative program.
Another focus area for the Foundation is arts, culture, and recreation. During the fiscal year, the Foundation made grants for the following purposes: water safety classes and swimming lessons for middle schoolage children and their families, a new roof for the dr pepper museum, renovation of a facility on mcc campus, video projection equipment for the civic theatre, and a consultant to provide an organizational assessment for art center waco.