2024
We are so appreciative of all that donors to Inspired Vision Compassion Center have done to help us care for the masses of people in need in the Dallas area. We now have almost 65,000 households that depend on us for groceries, medical needs, and other necessities. The donors have helped us make all of this possible. We have about 50 or more new families each day coming to register for groceries. It is financially a big responsibility to care for the needy. In 2024, we had cash donations of $654,432.92. On that amount we gave away, over 15,277,846 pounds of food, valued at $33,299,928.01. Last year we had families come through about 500,000 times for groceries and other needs. That averages to about $1.30 per family for groceries and necessities, each time they come through. We are serving about 2000 families each day. Funds have become low, because hunger is so great. We appreciate all donations.
2023
Inspired Vision Compassion Center gives groceries to approximately 1800 to 2000 families each day, Monday through Friday. Unlike most food pantries, our volume allows us to provide fresh vegetables and healthy eating options rather than canned food to our clients. In 2023, we had 460,000 families that received groceries through our free grocery store. In addition to groceries, we provide clothing, books, furniture, baby formula, diapers, baby furniture, first aid and home medical equipment, school supplies, school uniforms, and other necessities. Our free children’s clinic provides medical care for approximately 45 children per day while Parkland provides medical screenings and doctor’s visits for adults.
Spay Neuter Network provides free spay/neuter for cats and dogs every Tuesday from a mobile unit in our parking lot. SPCA, Operation Kindness, and Duck Team 6 hold periodic vaccine and microchip clinics to ensure pets get appropriate medical care.
South Dallas Employment Project operates a computer center that offers free job training, job placement assistance, and various other supports for the unemployed. They provide wrap-around services for clients participating in job training. They also help clients obtain IDs and file for unemployment.
We have a Senior Social each Friday morning attended by 80 to 130 seniors. Allowing the seniors of the community a place to interact, have fun and get both food and emotional support. Many seniors do not have support systems and build strong relationships through our senior social.
We hold prom store, back to school, wedding dress, coat, and Christmas giveaways each year. In 2023, we gave about 17,000 children toys and goodie bags for Christmas. Families in poverty, often use their rent money in December to buy Christmas and are evicted in February. Giving Christmas toys stops the cycle of homelessness in our community.
We have about 60,000 registered homes, from Dallas and many surrounding communities, who receive food, supplies, and services. We have 50 to 80 new families who register each day. Some families drive as much as an hour to an hour and a half to get to us since we do not have zip code restrictions. We provide food to 50 smaller food pantries, and various community churches to distribute. We currently provide food baskets and snacks to 54 Title I schools for parent engagement and afterschool tutoring.
2022
Throughout the struggles and hardships that have been endured in 2022, IVCC has stayed opened and has surpassed the expectations we had at the beginning of the year. We served a total of 441,350 families. We provided winter coats to over 1,500 children. We gave school supplies and uniforms to 1,104 children.
2021
In 2021 we surpassed all expectations that we had for ourselves, we served 427,208 families. If we multiply this by our average household size of 5, that is 2,136,040 people that we helped feed in the North Texas area. Additionally, our Christmas Blessing surpassed our wildest expectations and gave Christmas to over 10,000 kids. In one day, we gave school supplies to over 1,300 children, and supplies to over 500 teachers in the Dallas area. In 2021, we created a completely digital system through help of our partners to help organize our data and the families that we have helped thus far. This year, we have seen exponential growth in many areas including the healthcare sector. We now have a free doctor’s clinic inside our facilities four days a week, and Parkland provides screenings in our building once a week.
2020
In 2020, our team helped us exceed our expectations. We fed a grand total of 334,004 families with an average household size of 4, essentially meaning that we helped feed over 1 million people in the North Texas Area. We gave Christmas toys to over 6,123 families. This upcoming year, we expect to exceed our previous years and make a larger change in our community.
2019
We expected 2019 to exceed every year before.
It happened.
Not only did we feed over 243,000 families, but we renovated a new building that required complete and total restoration. We invited the whole community to partner with us on the remodel of the new building and they came through for us.
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