This month's sponsor is The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, one of Heart House's first funders. They took a leap of faith with us, granting us significant funds before Heart House had even opened! Fast forward six years, and the foundation remains one of Heart House's biggest supporters. While MSDF continues to support Heart House's day-to-day operations and the afterschool program itself, the foundation has made some legacy gifts to Heart House that will help us to build capacity and better serve our children for years to come.
A recent example of MSDF's generous, engaged philanthropy was when our wonderful Program Officer, Nichole Aston, approached Heart House and asked us where we could best use new funds and what our challenges were. We told the foundation that Heart House needed a more efficient, web-based database for tracking data on children, volunteers and our program. Additionally, we wanted to grow our pool of loyal private donors. MSDF issued a grant allowing Heart House to develop an efficient new database and challenging us to raise more private donor funds, rewarding us with a matching grant to maximize the impact of the donations from other Heart House supporters.
Heart House was honored to nominate MSDF for the Central Texas Afterschool Network's 2008 "Donor of the Year" award. Nichole Aston accepted this award at the recent Breakfast of Champions, celebrating achievement and support of out-of-school-time programs in Central Texas.
CTAN Master of Ceremonies, Herman Whitney, CTAN President, Tameka Thomas, and Nichole Aston from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.
Heart House values its partnership with MSDF, and we consider ourselves so lucky to be funded by a foundation with such integrity and high standards. Thank you, MSDF, for making such an amazing impact at Heart House over the past six years, and for all that you do everywhere to "transform the lives of children living in urban poverty through better health and education."
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