The Rees-Jones Foundation Supports Mosaic House Shelter

The Rees-Jones Foundation awarded $15,000 to Mosaic Family Services for Mosaic House shelter.

This funding will be used to support our program costs at the shelter, including staffing our emergency hotline 24 hours a days and providing food, clothing, and household supplies for the residents there.

The Rees-Jones Foundation is a private foundation established primarily to benefit the people of North Texas. The Foundation’s mission is to provide support and funding for programs that will help improve in tangible ways the quality of life and life circumstances of the people it serves, with special emphasis on assisting underserved children and their families.Artwork by child residents at Mosaic House

Thank you to The Rees-Jones Foundation for supporting Mosaic!

Mosaic Featured on The Women's International Perspective Blog

Mirjana Omeragic, Program Director at Mosaic Family Services, was interviewed for a story on immigrant victims of domestic violence by The Women's International Perspective blog. Click below to check it out!

Immigrant Survivors of Abuse Struggle within a Changing System

by Michelle Chen

2007 Annual Report for Mosaic Family Services

Want to know more about Mosaic's work in 2007? Click above to see our 2007 Annual Report! In the report you will find powerful stories and quotes from the people we helped, information about how many clients we served and what services we provided for them. You will also see our donors, supporters, and volunteers from 2007.

Mosaic House Receives $30,000 Grant from the King Foundation

Mosaic Family Services has received a $30,000 grant for Mosaic House from the Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation. This gift will support the program and operating costs of Mosaic House. Our shelter has shown significant growth in recent years, with the number of clients served increasing by 35% between 2005 and 2007. The King Foundation's support will help us serve more families at the shelter and meet the higher demand for our services.

The King Foundation, founded by Carl B. and Florence E. King, supports programs that provide education, services for youth, seniors and the indigent, cultural and historical organizations, and medical research. The foundation has been serving Texas and Arkansas since 1966, and is “committed to the highest standards of philanthropy."

Below is a story from one of the former residents of Mosaic House. Funding from The King Foundation will help many more women like Asmara who are escaping abuse.

“Asmara” is a 27 year-old Female from India who came to the United States 5 years ago to join her husband. Asmara was abused physically and emotionally by him on daily basis. She was not allowed to go out or have friends, and had very little contact with the outside world.

Asmara was referred to Mosaic House by the police department, who responded to a domestic violence call. She came to the shelter with bruises and was very depressed. She had been isolated for so many years that it took days for this client to come out of her apartment at the shelter. When she came up to the office, she found out that the computers were for clients to use. Asmara was able to communicate with her family back in her home country for the first time since coming to the United States five years ago. Since that day, Asmara used the computer everyday to send emails to her family, to submit resumes to potential employers, and to search for a job. Within a week, she was able to go to her first job interview and renew her driver’s license online. Asmara was finally able to connect with the outside world and her community, get a job, and live in a safe environment at the Mosaic House shelter.

For more information on the King Foundation, please visit their website at http://www.kingfoundation.com.

Thank you to the King Foundation for supporting Mosaic!

KPMG Volunteers Visit Mosaic House

A group of 21 KPMG employees came to Mosaic House in May 2008 to donate their time. Each year, KPMG hosts a day-long event for the women in the company. In the morning, the employees participate in a speaker workshop, and in the afternoon, they split up into groups and do volunteer work. The Mosaic group planted flowers in the garden, cleaned the playground toys for the children, and did group activities with the children. They also cleaned and prepared one of the apartment units for a new resident, and tidied the children's playroom.

Thank you KPMG for supporting Mosaic House!

KeyBank Volunteers Brighten Mosaic House

Volunteers from KeyBank visited Mosaic House on May 20, 2008. They rolled up their sleeves and made many improvements to the shelter! The volunteers painted a mural in the children's play room, re-painted the parking spaces, and put down new tile in one of the units. We appreciate their time and effort!

Thank you so much to KeyBank for helping Mosaic House and making it brighter from the women and children there!

Hoglund Foundation Supports Mosaic House

The Hoglund Foundation has just awarded Mosaic Family Services with a $30,000 grant for Mosaic House, our shelter for battered immigrant women and their children. This funding will be used to support the ongoing operating costs at the shelter. The number of clients served by Mosaic House has increased by 35% in the past two years, and The Hoglund Foundation grant will help support the growing demand for our services.

The Hoglund Foundation was established in 1989 to use the resources and abilities of the extended family of Forrest E. Hoglund and Sally R. Hoglund to generate and/or support activities that can make a positive difference in the lives of others. The primary focus of The Hoglund Foundation is to promote interests and entities in education, health science and services, social services and children's health and development.

For more information on The Hoglund Foundation, please visit their website at www.hoglundfoundation.org.

Thank you to The Hoglund Foundation for
supporting Mosaic House!