Third Ward Community Cloth Cooperative: An Evening Honoring Distinguished Public and Community Servants!

Third Ward Community Cloth 30th Anniversary Celebration Honors Distinguished Public and Community Servants

For three decades, The Third Ward Community Cloth (the Cloth) has served a vital role in extending the outreach of community organizations, agencies, churches, schools, and businesses, that provide life-enhancing services, programs and resources for Third Ward children, youth, and families. As the Cloth’s outreach has grown to include more than 400 organizational members, it has garnered a distinguished record of planning, collaboration, volunteer mobilization, and resource development.

Since its inception 30 years ago, the Cloth has achieved its primary goal of making available information on needs, resources, as well access to resources for the underserved and economically challenged in the third ward area. Over 600 social, health and community organizations benefit from our monthly capacity building sessions.

On October 28, 2022, at 7:00 p.m., the Cloth will celebrate its 30th Anniversary, “An Evening Honoring Distinguished Public and Community Servants” at the Holman Street Baptist Church, 3501 Holman Street, Houston, Texas 77004.

Honorees for the evening are:

· The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee, US House of Representatives – 18th Congressional District

· The Honorable Garnet Coleman, Retired Texas State Representative, District 147

· Mr. George Baugh III, CPA

· Ms. Dianne Iglehart, Servant Leader, Trinity UMC

· Dr. Jacqueline R. Ward, Chief Nursing Officer and Sr. VP, Texas Children’s Hospital

In 1995, the Cloth recognized its need for a mechanism to support its vision. The Third Ward Community Fund Management Corporation (TWCFMC) was created to support the leadership of the Cloth and provide administrative support.

Twelve years ago, the TWCFMC and the Cloth identified 5-10 non-profits in desperate need of professional staff support but without the resources to finance their needs. As a result, the Third Ward Community Cloth Cooperative Intern Project was created as a way of addressing this need. Today our agencies have trained over 150 interns from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, and undergraduate social work programs at Prairie View and Texas Southern University. Rev. Marilyn White, Board Chair of TWCFMC says “The TWCFMC moving forward will expand its internship programs and roll out our Capacity Building Unit (CCBU)—this program will complement the Cloth’s capacity-building role in the community and provide additional support for the new CCBU. The Cloth is redefining the threads to offer more comprehensive support to the greater Third Ward community”.

ABOUT THE THIRD WARD CLOTH

Our Mission and Guiding Principles are to identify, mobilize, unify, stabilize, create, and coordinate resources to nurture and enhance the bodies, minds and spirits of children, youth and families in the greater Third Ward area.