Transformance Awarded Grant from Fair Park Trust Fund Board

Dallas Nonprofit Among 19 Recipients Receiving Funds

Transformance Inc., a Dallas-based nonprofit dedicated to creating an integrated services delivery model for economic empowerment, has received funding from the South Dallas Fair Park Trust Fund Board. At the board’s 2016-2017 annual reception held on Thursday, Aug. 25 at the DiscoveryGarden at FairPark, CEO Ken Goodgames accepted the endowment and praised the occasion.

“We’re absolutely honored and humbled to be counted among the grant recipients chosen by the South Dallas Fair Park Trust Fund Board,” stated Goodgames. “We worked hard putting together our funding request and this grant will allow Transformance to continue our outreach of providing financial coaching and other integrated services to Fair Park’s communities.”

The mission of the South Dallas Fair Park Trust Fund is to empower the FairPark community by working to facilitate economic, housing, community advancement, business development and community service programs. Last Thursday’s event included a full reception, speeches and check presentations. Opening remarks were given by Fair Park Trust Fund Board Chairman Maurice Franklin. Closing remarks were provided by Franklin, vice-chair Byron Lattimore and director of the board’s office of economic development, Karl Zavitkovsky.

In total, the South Dallas Fair Park Trust Fund awarded over $750,000 in funding to 19 different nonprofit organizations for the 2016-2017 calendar year.

Transformance will use their funds to expand the outreach of Pocket Change Kids, their gamified financial education and learning platform designed to teach the basics of saving and other financial literacy lessons to grades K-5.

For more information, please visit www.transformanceusa.org.