Crossroads Community Services Inc
Crossroads Community Services Inc
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About this organization
Mission
Crossroads Community Services' mission is to nourish our community's low-income families and individuals by providing nutritious food and supportive education. We believe generous, nutrition-focused and accessible food assistance is a powerful stabilizing force for economically-vulnerable households throughout Dallas, Ellis, and Navarro Counties in Texas. Crossroads’ services support better health, free up money for other household needs and can help prevent eviction and homelessness.
About
On January 2, 2019, we moved into the previous home of the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB). We are grateful and honored that NTFB entrusted us with this magnificent 72K Sq. Ft. distribution facility in the southern sector of Dallas County. We opened a large, well-equipped client-choice food pantry; the first of its kind in this area. Without advertising, residents quickly found it. Lines for the pantry formed and lengthened daily outside our front doors; the unmet was being fulfilled. Crossroads pantry distributed 920,905 pounds of food in 2019. On average, the retail value of each pound is $2.00. Therefore, that same quantity of groceries would have cost our clients $1,841,810 at the store-money that could have been used for other necessary household expenses. Providing substantial amounts of nutritious food for each household member has been our priority for many years. In 2005, Crossroads developed an algorithm which calculates the approximate amount of groceries needed to prepare 21 balanced meals for each family member according to each person's age, gender and activity level, as recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. According to Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization, this approach was unique. In 2009, to learn more effective ways to alleviate food-insecurity and promote health and well-being, Crossroads began collecting and preserving historical and geospatial client data; it includes income, demographic, depression and anxiety markers, levels of food-insecurity, general health indicators, social connectivity, etc. In 2011, we were fortunate to establish formal relationships with research partners at UT Southwestern Medical Center and UT Dallas, called CARE (Community Assistance Research); which now includes University of Dallas. Thanks to funding from the W. W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas, in conjunction with CARE Crossroads launched a randomized controlled trial of a behavioral-economics informed intervention to improve the scarcity context of budgeting decisions made by low-income households-SNAP-AC Project. Our hypothesis, based on preliminary data, is that by better coordinating use of SNAP and food pantry assistance, households can have more consistent food consumption throughout the month, leading to a higher level of food security and better health outcomes. We invited the North Texas Food Bank and Sharing Life to join us in this important work.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing sets forth the mission of the non-profit as “To nourish our community's low-income families by providing nutritious food and supportive education. at crossroads we nourish people and power change.”.
When detailing its responsibilities, they were listed as: “Nourish our community's low-income families by providing nutritious food and supportive education.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is legally permitted to operate is TX.
- The address of the non-profit for 2020 according to the filing is 4500 S Cockrell Hill Rd, Dallas, TX, 75236.
- The number of employees reported by the non-profit on their form as of 2020 is 24.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $1,215,606.
- The organization has 11 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2015.
- The organization pays $892,827 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $373,375 in fundraising expenses.
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