Mentor
Show up for the same student, week after week. Talk about school, about work, about what comes next — and about the thing they’re making.
Best for: people who keep promises. Commitment: one term, ideally longer.
Get involved
Three ways in. All of them useful.
This is a small organization, which means your contribution doesn’t disappear into a department. It turns into supplies, hours, and a kid who keeps showing up.
01 — Volunteer
Give an afternoon a week.
You don’t need a teaching certificate or a fine arts degree. You need to be reliable, patient, and willing to be screened.
Tutor
Sit with a student and the assignment they’re avoiding. Mostly math and reading, occasionally the college essay that has been open in a tab for three weeks.
Best for: patient explainers. Commitment: weekly or biweekly.
Studio assistant
Set up, clean up, hand out supplies, and keep the room calm enough that someone can concentrate. The least glamorous role and the one we always need.
Best for: steady hands. Commitment: flexible.
02 — Donate
Fund the supplies, not the overhead.
Gifts go to the things that actually make a session happen: paint, canvas, instruments, software licenses, bus fare, and the instructors who show up to teach. Small monthly gifts are worth more to us than one-time spikes, because they let us promise a student a full term.
- $25 covers materials for one student, one term.
- $100 sponsors a studio session.
- $500 underwrites a full term of tutoring.
For the Children, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 45-4920902. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Where a dollar goes
A rough sketch of how program money is spent — useful if you’re deciding whether to give.
- Instruction & artist fees
- Working artists paid to teach, not volunteers pretending.
- Materials & instruments
- Consumables, tools, and equipment that get used up or walked off.
- Access costs
- Transportation, meals, and the small things that decide whether a kid can attend.
- Keeping the lights on
- Insurance, filings, and the unglamorous administration a nonprofit requires.
03 — Partner
If you already have a room full of kids, let’s talk.
We work with schools, churches, community organizations, and businesses across North Texas. The best partnerships are specific: a defined group, a defined term, a defined outcome.
Schools
Bring a program on site
An after-school block, a residency, or a single intensive. Tell us the age group and the space you have.
Community organizations
Share the students
If you already serve families we should know, we’d rather coordinate than compete for the same afternoon.
Businesses
Sponsor a term
Fund a session, cover materials, or send a team to volunteer. We’ll be specific about what your money did.
Artists
Teach what you know
We pay teaching artists. If you can hold a room of teenagers and show them something real, we want to meet you.
Not sure where you fit?