Three additional organizations have received $50,000 funding.

By Eric Zarate

The Dallas Foundation awarded a total of $300,000 to four nonprofits on December 13 through its Mary J. Jalonik Women’s Philanthropy Institute, with New Friends New Life receiving $150,000 and Braswell Child Development Center, Community Basket Mobile Farmers Market, and Mosaic Family Services receiving $50,000 grants each.

The grant to Dallas-based New Friends New Life will provide 240 Women’s Program participants with essential necessities, counseling, and economic empowerment tools. “By providing opportunities and healing services, New Friends New Life helps women and their children overcome backgrounds of abuse, addiction, and poverty,” said CEO Matthew Randazzo. “This personifies everything the Women’s Philanthropy Institute represents.”

According to a foundation statement, the philanthropy group, which visits four to five charities in the Dallas region each year, has given nearly $1 million in funding since 2012.

“This significant grant will assist these brave survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation in overcoming the trauma and roadblocks of their past and achieving their dreams,” said Bianca Davis, executive director of New Friends New Life.

“We are overjoyed to have received the lead grant from The Dallas Foundation’s Women’s Philanthropy Institute,” said Bianca Davis, Executive Director of New Friends New Life.