Meals on Wheels North Central Texas Inc
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Meals on Wheels provides a hot, noon-time meal five days a week to the most vulnerable seniors and disabled persons. In addition to the meal delivery, volunteers are checking in on clients daily to ensure their safety.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Home Delivered Meals
Meals on Wheels provides healthy nutritious meals, friendly visits, wellness checks, nutrition education, and caregiver support ensuring the safety of our seniors. Meals on Wheels helps seniors maintain health, independence and dignity.
Caregiver Support
Meals on Wheels wants to ensure that caregivers have the most up-to-date information, education, and resources. We realize the challenges in caring for an elderly or disabled loved one. We offer useful information on aging, mental challenges such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, housing options, legal issues, in-home services, end-of-life issues, palliative care and more.
AniMeals
Once a month, volunteers deliver donated dog and cat food to Meals on Wheels' recipients in their community. AniMeals is important as it:
1. Prevents clients with limited resources from sharing their home-delivered meals with their pets.
2. Provides basic preventative vet care - vaccinations, spaying/neutering and flea treatment.
3. Enables individuals to keep their companion animals, providing a special quality to their lives.
Where we work
Awards
National Certified Nutrition Program 2004
Meals On Wheels Association of America
Affiliations & memberships
Meals on Wheels Association of America 1990
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of clients who report a greater sense of purpose and improved overall wellness
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Seniors
Related Program
Home Delivered Meals
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of older adults being supported to live at home through home care, assistive technology, and/or personal support plans
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Seniors
Related Program
Home Delivered Meals
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of health outcomes improved
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Seniors
Related Program
Home Delivered Meals
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
94% clients say it helps them eat healthier.
Number of meals served or provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Seniors
Related Program
Home Delivered Meals
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Meals on Wheels’ services are targeted toward elderly and disabled persons, focusing on those who are homebound, older in age, low income, isolated, frail, or incapacitated. Meals on Wheels also acts as a resource for families caring for needy elderly and disabled loved ones.
Outreach efforts target older adults who live in rural areas, have greatest economic need, have greatest social need, have severe disabilities, have limited English proficiency, have Alzheimer’s disease or related disorders, and are at risk of institutional placement.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We utilize more than 600 local volunteers to deliver the meals directly to the clients' homes. Financial resources come from a variety of funding sources such as individual donors, businesses, civic clubs and churches, foundations, United Way funding, Golf Benefit, and limited federal and state grants.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Meals on Wheels North Central Texas has been part of the community fabric since 1976. We have developed a “Meals on Wheels" family that is based upon philanthropy, volunteerism, and service. We continue to leverage numerous funding streams to serve as many needy individuals as possible.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Now delivering 90+ home-delivered meal routes throughout five counties. Additional services include: AniMeals for our clients' four-legged family members, nutritional supplements at cost and client support. We are helping nourish the body and spirit of our homebound neighbors.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is hard to come up with good questions to ask people
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Operations
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Meals on Wheels North Central Texas Inc
Board of directorsas of 09/08/2023
Ken Finch
Retired Healthcare Executive
Term: 2023 - 2024
Margie Wright
Suicide & Crisis Center of North Texas
Tara Huffman
Orcutt l Winslow
Lynda Sloan
Retired Executive Director
Misty Louthan
Community National Bank & Trust
Julissa Martinez
Martinez & Flemins, PLLC
Will Turner
Baylor Scott & White Waxahachie
Rob Orr
Orr Real Estate
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.