Donors & Supporters

Shared Housing Center has an annual operating budget of approximately $500,000.00. Our income is generated by a variety of methods, including grant writing, special events (fundraising events), corporate, business, churches, synagogues, and individual solicitations. Historically, our funds come from the following sources:
The following list represents donors, supporters and partnerships during the past three years:
  • Bank of Texas
  • Baron & Blue Foundation
  • The Build-a-Bear Foundation
  • City of Dallas: Emergency Shelter Grant
  • Dallas Foundation – Donor Advisory Funds
    •      Billy & Dodee Crockett
    •      Barbara Dickson
  • The Dallas Foundation
  • Dallas Women’s Foundation
  • Get Up and Give!  Giving Day
  • The Hillcrest Foundation
  • Liberty Mutual Foundation
  • MetroPCS
  • Northwood Woman's Club
  • Harold Simmons Foundation
  • Southwest Airlines – MIT classes and employees
  • Eric & Deborah Suder
  • Reid & Stacey Walker
  • Gill & Dody Weaver Foundation
  • Abigail & Todd Williams
  • The George & Fay Young Foundation
  • Women of St. Michaels
Green Haus Support
  • City of Dallas – CDBG
  • Dallas Foundation
  • Harold Simmons Foundation
  • Hillcrest Foundation
  • Hoblitzelle Foundation
  • Home Depot Foundation
  • Hudson Foundation
  • Meadows Foundation
  • Rees-Jones Foundation
  • TREC (The Real Estate Council)
  • Wachovia/Wells Fargo
  • Texas Capital Bank
Special EventsShared Housing Center holds an annual wine event fundraiser, bringing several companies and businesses to support our cause. The evening is spent enjoying good food, great wines, friendships and bidding on some spectacular items!

In Vino Caritas and Under the Green Haus Lights (annual wine & silent auction event)
  • Akin Gump
  • Cowles & Thomson
  • Fulbright & Jaworski
  • Gardere
  • Gibson Dunn
  • Greenberg Traurig
  • Tim & Frances Hafer
  • Jones Lang LaSalle
  • K&L Gates
  • Chris Luna & Kent Mecklenburg
  • McKool Smith
  • Megatel Homes
  • MetroPCS
  • Greg Swalwell & Terry Connor
  • Ron Thompson
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Camp GingerbreadCamp Gingerbread is another fundraising activity held at NorthPark Center. Camp Gingerbread is an opportunity to decorate a gingerbread cookie with colorful frostings, yummy, sweet candy for a small price of $10.00! All you need is a little imagination! All funds from this event benefit Holiday Hero, our annual holiday event where children young and old receive presents and gifts.

Ways to give There are several ways to contribute to our cause, including the following:

  • Participate in our Annual fundraising events (click here for details);
  • Direct Contribution: send a check or money order (no amount is too small);
  • Tom Thumb/Randall’s Grocery – submit an application for the good neighbor program and give our number #4777. Every time you shop and show the card a small percentage is tagged to our charity. Easy enough!
  • Kroger Grocery – same concept but you need to call us for the card. Every time you shop the card is scanned and a small percentage is earmarked for our charity.
  • Combined Federal Campaign of Metropolitan Dallas (State Employee Charitable Campaign or City of Dallas Charitable Campaign) – designate our agency during the campaign drive at your office.
  • Designate our agency during your United Way Campaign drive – although we are not a United Way agency you can designate us and we will receive your contribution, less the United Way administrative/processing fees.
  • Convince your friends and family to give to our agency in honor of your next birthday, family anniversary, or family memorials.
  • Convince your place of work to charge a small fee for the next holiday party or annual picnic and donate the fees. Everyone will feel good about this one!
  • Convince your place of work to hold a special event – golf tournament, grand opening, company anniversary and designate our agency as the beneficiary.
We also offer special activities throughout the year. So stay alert. We have our own enterprises such as selling chances for airline tickets and sending holiday cards to everyone on your holiday mailing list all within reasonable rates!

Not into the money thing?

Ok, what about collecting in-kind materials and goods. Consider some of the following options:

  • Have a canned food drive;
  • Coordinate a school supplies drive;
  • Recruit your office colleagues to purchase gift certificates ($5.00 and $10.00 denominations) to neighborhood grocery stores, pharmacies and discount stores;
  • Designate a specific month for shoes, underwear, socks, coats, caps, collection drive;
  • Collect arts & crafts supplies, books, toys for the children;
  • Have a spring (or any other season) cleaning – drop off clothes, linens, towels, dishes, pots, pans, to our office;
  • Announce a toiletry or cleaning product collection drive at your office.
Please keep in mind that we assist approximately 100 families through our services at a given time. The majority of our clients come to our homes having to abandon their worldly possessions. We assist them with groceries, bus passes, clothes, and all sorts of household items and furniture.

All donated items we receive are distributed among our families. Any excess is stored for future families and their needs.

Shared Housing Mission:

Shared Housing Center was created in 1984 to provide and facilitate affordable housing options. Our mission has been to offer housing options and supportive services that foster independence, empowerment, and self-worth and to serve a multicultural, intergenerational population.
Applications for Homeshare, Group Residence and volunteering are at the bottom of this page.

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Upcoming Events

School is Cool
Saturday, August 18, 2018
11:00am - 1:00pm
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Camp Gingerbread
NorthPark Center
Saturday and Sunday
December 1 & 2, 2018
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Holiday Hero Party
Saturday, December 15, 2018
11:00am - 1:00pm