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It is a great opportunity for organizations who share goals and ideals to form partnerships where they share resources, ideas, and help in achieving those shared goals. Several Dallas organizations have formalized partnerships with St. Simon’s in the last few months. These respected organizations bring fresh capabilities to St. Simon’s and help us to better serve our children and their families.

Episcopal School of Dallas
Led by the Rev. Stephen B. Swann, Founding Rector and Headmaster, ESD is recognized as one of the premier schools in our region. One of the school’s founding tenets is Service to Others. Built on this tenant, ESD’s Community Service Program prepares students for a lifetime of service to others. The goals of the program include providing help where needed in society, increasing students’ understanding of their lives in relation to others while developing a sense of responsibility toward the greater community, broadening students’ horizons through exposure to a wide range of experiences, fostering the relationship between ESD and the Dallas community, and helping students recognize that they are serving God by serving others.

Dallas ISD
One of DISD’s core beliefs is that every student must be educated in a safe, welcoming, effective, and innovative environment which is exactly what we believe. They also believe that a supportive community is fundamental to achieving and sustaining success and therefore support partnerships with community, business, civic, and faith-based organizations to help them achieve excellence. Our partnership enhances both of our abilities to meet our goals.

First Book
First Book’s mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first books. In pursuing this mission First Book has distributed more than 50 million books. First Book provides us with four books a year for each child – books they own and can put their names in. Karen Blumenthal of First Book praises the relationship with St. Simon’s. Karen says “St. Simon’s offers an excellent environment for the kids to get their books and help reading them”.

Central Dallas Ministries
CDM helps St. Simon’s by supplying snacks for some of our programs and funding for those items like milk which we buy. We are excited to be partnered with such a successful organization that shares our values of aiding low-income children with an educational boost, good nutrition, and a caring environment. In addition, the focus on helping families who are working to improve their lives by being able to concentrate on their work and education for their children fits closely with our mission.

We value our long partnerships with the following parishes and organizations that are major sponsors of St. Simon’s programs.
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
The Women of St. Michael and All Angels
St. Matthias Anglican Church
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
The Episcopal Church of the Ascension
The Church of the Epiphany-Richardson
Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration

These partnerships have served both St. Simon’s and the organizations well as we all strive to serve the less fortunate in our community.