Stallings Award Foundation

Sprinkle kindness and help create childhood education services for children with disabilities.

The Stallings Award Foundation provides financial assistance to the Rise School of Dallas to further its work in childhood education services to these communities.

We launched this fundraiser to help us give back to our community in the same way that 1,400 neighbors and strangers were able to raise $104,560 to help keep Howdy Homemade's doors open in 2020 amid the challenges of the COVID pandemic.

Howdy Homemade shares a similar mission with The Stallings Award Foundation in its dedication to providing opportunities to help see, and realize, the potential of everyone. Every aspect of Howdy Homemade encompasses the special needs of the huge under-employed segment of our population with one goal: To change the way businesses hire people with special needs. In fact, the name Howdy is a tribute to Gene Stallings, the namesake of The Stallings Award Foundation, Bear Bryant, and every underdog out there.

To express our thanks to those who helped us, on Sunday, July 18, National Ice Cream Day, we gave away FREE scoops of our newest flavor “Sprinkle Kindness,” of which we donated a portion of other proceeds to support The Stallings Award Foundation.

As a result of the people who came in that day, we made a donation to The Stallings Award Foundation in the amount of $1,400. And the cherry on top...GoFundMe matched our donation to the Foundation!

If you weren’t able to join us on the Sunday or you’re inspired to help us make an even bigger impact, you can still donate to this GoFundMe page where all funds raised will go directly to the The Stallings Award Foundation.

Tom Landis
Howdy Homemade Founder and Owner

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About The Rise School of Dallas

The Rise School of Dallas began operation at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in April 1998 as an IRS 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization. In 2016 The Rise School of Dallas joined the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas making its new home in the Moody Family YMCA, and in 2017 received a generous capital campaign donation from Ashford Incorporated becoming The Ashford Rise School of Dallas.

The Rise School of Dallas is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a prestigious recognition achieved by only 9% of early childhood programs nationwide.

We are creating a scholarship fund to pay for residents at Daymark Living whose families could not otherwise afford it. 

The Stallings Foundation (501c3) has been given a matching gift of $50,000 therefore we are creating this GoFund Me page in order to fulfill this challenge. 

Daymark Living is a residential community purposefully built for individuals with intellectual disabilities (e.g. Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, developmental delays et al.) 

For information about Daymark Living:

www.daymarkliving.com

972.525.2727