OUR CHILDREN, OUR INVESTMENT, OUR FUTURE

Arlene Barnett and Shirley Pace are grandmothers dedicated to raising scholarship dollars for college students. They each parented three children through college and observed tuition and student loan debt soar.  As veteran fundraisers, Arlene and Shirley began to question how they might serve the next generation of college hopefuls from families like theirs. They concluded that an endowment for working families in Tarrant County was an excellent way to invest in our children's future.  

They established an endowment in 2019 under the highly successful model and administration of the United Negro College Fund whose legacy of impeccable scholarship service is one of the country's premiere scholarship funds. A significant milestone, made possible by contributions from friends, donors, and community partners.