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Marc is very active economically, physically and emotionally, in several charities:
America Can! Academy (www.americacan.net) is a Magnet High School program providing education to 8,000 “at-risk” students each year. Sparks is a financial supporter and Academy Development Council member, having become involved in the organization through his foundation, Sparky’s Kids, which donates hundreds of new computers to multiple Texans Can! Academies across the state.
Sparky’s Kids (www.sparkyskids.com) is a non-profit foundation established by Sparks which provides free brand-new Dell computers to less fortunate but well deserving kids. Sparky’s Kids has given hundreds of computers away to date to kids involved in organizations such as Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dallas, Metro Ministries, the Samaritan Inn and Texans Can! Academy. Sparky’s Kids gave away approximately 500 new computers in 2005 and Sparks anticipates exceeding that number in 2006. "These computers are essential for education today... without them, these kids will end up in our prisons!"
Friends of the Inn Thrift Store (www.thesamaritaninn.org) The Friends of the Inn Thrift Store is a non-profit, five thousand square foot, sun filled retail space filled with gently used designer clothing, household goods and furniture.
All proceeds from the store are used to support The Samaritan Inn. Our residents work in the store each day to gain valuable job skills and to make their own contribution to our program,. Graduating residents are given vouchers so that they are able to get the things they need to set up their own households at absolutely no cost.
Our goal is to fund a great portion of the Samaritan Inn's operating budget from income of the, "Friends of the Inn" Thrift Center.
Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org) Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
The North Texas Gateway Apartments 1.3 acres of land has been purchased directly across the street from the Samaritan Inn where construction of a twenty unit apartment complex will soon begin. The apartments will be donated to the Samaritan Inn upon completion and will provide transitional housing for people at a third of normal rental rates so that they can get further education or training or save money so they are able to manage market value rents.
In Collin County the average cost of a one bedroom apartment is $650 per month, plus a security deposit, utility deposits and an application fee are regularly required, this makes housing out of reach for most people who earn minimum wage. We see this problem often at the Samaritan Inn - whereby people have completed our program, they have secured employment and are ready to move out, but there is simply no affordable place to go.
The complex has been christened “Gateway” as it will be the final ‘gateway’ to independence for the people who have worked so diligently to get there.
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