TYLER, Texas (KETK) — Women’s Fund of Smith County (WFSC) awarded four grants to local nonprofits on Tuesday.
During their 2025 grants announcement event held at Willow Brook Country Club, four grants totaling $278,334 were awarded to four local nonprofits:
East Texas Crisis Center (ETCC)
ETCC was awarded a grant of $79,640 to help establish their first transitional housing program for survivors of domestic violence in Smith County. The Transitional Housing Program (THP) includes rental assistance and services to support women and children fleeing domestic violence. THP will give access to affordable housing and the needed services required to rebuild lives and sustain a violence free future.
East Texas Crisis Center says its mission is to provide safety, shelter and education to victims of family violence, sexual assault, dating violence and other violent crimes. Their goal is to restore dignity and purpose in their lives while promoting public compassion and awareness to reduce violence in the community.
Hope Haven of East Texas
The nonprofit was awarded a grant of $68,640 to provide funding to enable Hope Haven to expand its child placing agency and improve office space so that the agency can better care for foster and adoptive families. Hope Haven says they will use these funds to create a multi-purpose meeting and training space to license families, and a dedicated room to provide counseling services.
“Hope Haven of East Texas demonstrates Christ’s love to forgotten children and teens in the foster care system by providing home, healing and hope because every child deserves to be safe and equipped for the future,” Hope Haven said.
Mosaic Counseling Centers of East Texas
Mosaic was awarded a grant of $100,000 to expand its youth and family services to meet the growing demand for child mental health care in Smith County. Mosaic says the funding will be used to hire a full-time licensed provider to serve more youth and family clients, enable contracts with new insurance providers, add a staff member to the client services team to support new clients, manage billing and provide resources for dedicated therapy spaces.
“Mosaic Counseling Centers of East Texas exist to build a healthier community by uniting mind, body and spirit through counseling, connection and community, honoring individual beliefs and practices,” Mosaic said.
Unbound Now
This nonprofit was awarded a grant of $30,000 to help the agency expand its 24/7 crisis response and case management services for commercially sexually exploited youth of Smith County.
Unbound Now says they work to end human trafficking in every community and aim to fight for the protection of the vulnerable, identify the exploited and advocate for survivors on their path to restoration.
About Women’s Fund of Smith County:
WFSC was created in 2007 as collective giving circle where they have awarded $3,572,468 to over 30 Smith County nonprofits.
“As members of the Women’s Fund, we are committed to working together in order to transform our community by supporting programs that enrich the lives of women and children in Smith County,’ President of the WFSC Zoe Lawhorn said. “During our annual Grant Awards Announcement event, we celebrate the heart of our mission and the power of a simple idea that together, our individual gifts can make a big, collective impact.”
WFSC says that membership is open to any woman with a giving heart. For more information, individuals can visit their website.
