Hope Haven receives grant from GIVE of Women’s Fund of Smith County

TYLER — Hope Haven of East Texas received a $7,500 grant from Girls Invested in Volunteer Efforts over the weekend. According to our news partner KETK, the gift will be used to expand the program’s Supervised Independent Living. The non-profit, Hope Haven, is geared toward providing housing to girls in need. GIVE is an initiative of the Women’s Fund of Smith County that began in 2014 and is patterned after the Women’s Fund model of collective giving, with the goal of fostering leadership and philanthropic values in high school aged girls. Hope Haven says, they can now expand the SIL program and offer a home to three young women who can no longer participate in the traditional foster care system yet still need care as they begin adulthood.