The Cornerstone Community Development, Inc. exists to serve the South Dallas and Fair Park community by addressing social needs with the goal of helping individuals break out of the cycle of poverty and become contributing members of the community. Over their 75 year history Cornerstone Baptist Church has launched more than14 ministries including Cornerstone Community Kitchen, Clothing Closet and Shower Facility, Southpoint Community Market, transitional housing, a Christian School, Entrepreneur Training Programs, and a community laundromat.

Literacy Achieves equips non-English speaking adults and their young children with English literacy and life skills to promote self-sufficiency and overall well-being. All classes are volunteer taught, with classes offered morning, afternoon, and evenings in the fall, spring and/or summer sessions. Literacy Achieves offers three locations across Dallas: East Dallas, Vickery Meadow, and West Dallas.

Located in Sunny South Dallas, MKL Arts Academy is a Pre K – 6th grade, grade level added each year through 8th is a Dallas ISD Transformation school where students are able to be a part of a nationally recognized fine arts program consisting of dance, art, photography, theater and music. Volunteers can adopt a classroom, serve as a STEAM program leader, or provide teacher and parent support.

This Dallas ISD school serves a student population where 80% of students are English language learners and 33 languages are spoken. Volunteers serve as tutors, chaperones for field trips, and provide enrichment and creative opportunities. During the Summer, a district-wide three-week program is offered to help decrease the “Summer slide” and help students maintain their academic progress.

For over half a century, Preston Hollow Presbyterian School has been dedicated to educating children of average to superior intelligence with mild to moderate learning differences. The types of learning differences served by our school include reading disorder (dyslexia), auditory processing disorder, oral language disorder, written language disorder, and mathematical disability.

What started out as a garden in a small lot has grown into two fully functioning farms and the Bonton Market. Bonton Farms grow organic food and hope for a better tomorrow, right in the Bonton community and on a separate 40-acre farm south of Dallas. Determined to grow the best-tasting, healthiest produce in the city while inspiring hope in everyone around, Bonton’s mission is to restore lives, create jobs and ignite hope in a once forgotten and neglected neighborhood with some of the most marginalized people.

Believing all patients are God’s children, Healing Hands Ministries strives to provide compassionate, accessible, quality care to all of its neighbors. HHM is a full-service medical, dental, and behavioral clinic that offers hope for the spirit and health for the body. Accessible healthcare for the uninsured, underinsured, and privately insured are possible through their comprehensive family practice, OB/GYN, pediatric services, and community resources.

In 2007, PHPC initiated a relationship with CEPAD (Nicaragua’s Council of Protestant Churches) to expand PHPC’s options for engagement in international mission in a location closer to Dallas. Through CEPAD, PHPC supports programs benefitting rural Nicaraguans with training, resources and leadership programs that empower local leadership councils to identify community needs, develop solutions, and advocate on behalf of their communities. Trainings include improved agricultural techniques and business / job skills, as well as youth programs and women’s empowerment. CEPAD works with 40-50 communities in a region over a 5-year period, then moves on, leaving behind increased food security and health, greater economic stability, stronger families and sustainable, locally-led programs to continue community progress.

Meals on Wheels provides hot, nutritious, freshly prepared meals five days a week to Dallas County residents whose illness, advanced age or disability serve as a challenge to preparing quality meals. Volunteers provide meal transportation and delivery, and serve as the eyes and ears for VNA in assuring the wellbeing of clients.

The former football field turned urban, organic farm seeks to transform the health and well-being of under-resourced communities in southern Dallas by providing fresh, healthy, affordable food options and by educating and empowering future generations to take better care of themselves, their environments, and their communities. Located in a federally-recognized food desert, the Farm has produced and provided more than 30,000 pounds of organic produce since its inception in March 2010.

Started in 2010, PHPC’s Epiphany Ministry provides enrichment-based respite care programs for adults living with special needs that incorporate their unique gifts and talents in worship, life skills, art, and community service.

Over the past two decades, PHPC has nurtured a relationship with outreach partners in Malawi who serve the region's most impoverished, rural populations. Through PHPC mission trips and exchanges, we have earned a reputation for being a reliable, responsive and engaged congregation willing to support Malawian not-for profit organizations and institutions who are bringing health care, food security, education (pre-k through university) orphan care, fresh water and sanitation to Malawi's most vulnerable citizens of all ages.

The PHPC Refugee & Immigrant Ministry Team welcomes and supports refugee and immigrant families through offering material goods, transportation, and assistance in navigating systems and services (school, doctors, employment, etc.) and cultures and customs. This team seeks to build upon PHPC’s long history of welcoming and supporting refugees and immigrants and to explore how God continues to call us to love and serve our neighbors.

Hope Supply Co. seeks to meet the critical needs of homeless and at-risk children across North Texas by providing necessities including diapers, clothing, school supplies, toys, and programs to enhance their lives. In partnership with 85+ organizations, including homeless shelters, transitional living centers, school districts, and state agencies. These essential items are given directly to families and children who need them the most. Donations and volunteers are always welcomed.

A community-based organization, Network’s mission is to care, coach, and empower neighbors in need as they seek an improved quality of life. Network has expanded its services and financial assistance to anyone impacted by the 2019 Tornadoes, regardless of zip code or income level. Donated household items are accepted donations for those rebuilding and restoring their lives after the storm.

NDSM is a cooperative effort of 52 congregations whose combined resources offers assistance to individuals and families through emergency assistance (food pantry, financial aid, clothing), no-cost medical and dental clinics, and financial independence programs. Almost entirely volunteer-run, NDSM relies on committed volunteers to deliver services to over 60,000 individuals each year.