Story

In early December, LLFC partnered with an organization called YoungLives, a ministry affiliated with Young Life that focuses on parenting and pregnant teens.

LLYC’s Summer 2017 was arguably its most successful ever, serving 1,540 campers from 1,168 households across Texas and beyond.

Dan Roloff has witnessed tremendous transformation in the organization since the 1980s. The quintessential oral historian of the Canyon’s best tales, “Ramblin’ Dan,” as he was sometimes known around the Canyon, retired on March 28.

In 2017, the Foundation began testing and measuring three pilots in San Antonio—a mental health initiative, a capacity-building learning cohort, and a public storytelling effort. Each pilot is working to further the Foundation’s mission in three different but overlapping domains that benefit children and families.

Though poverty rates have remained consistent, Texas has significantly reduced the traditional welfare it provides to poor Texans through cash assistance over the last two decades.

Kids don't leave the effects of poverty at home. More frequently, schools are seeing an academic benefit to providing food, counseling, parenting classes and other services targeting the wide-ranging needs of low income families.

Houston nonprofit shows hope, determination, and grit amidst Hurricane Harvey's aftermath.

There is an unseen force that makes Laity Lodge Youth Camp operate as successfully as it does—an army of high school juniors.

This winter, The H. E. Butt Foundation has expanded its annual Christmas Tribute program to help families and campers recently affected by Hurricane Harvey.

House of Faith cares about families, though in practice its programs have focused mostly on children and youth. As the staff and volunteers in San Angelo poured into the community and prayed for solutions to the parent gap, Laity Lodge Family Camp senior director, Cary Hendricks, was busy exploring partnership options.

Carmen Lidia De La Rosa started her nonprofit when she was 21, broke and just starting college. Six years later, she is launching her first major fundraising campaign.

53% of people struggling with mental illness—including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, impulse control, substance use, adjustment disorders, and psychotic symptoms, will reach out to a pastor for help rather than to a psychiatrist or a doctor.