Community Spotlight: HOPE Farm's Slone Vocational Center

Fort Worth’s HOPE Farm is developing a vocational center and launching a program to bring economic and career opportunities to fatherless boys and their families in our community.

If you’re reading this, you likely know what a difference a meaningful career can make. The Slone Vocational Center – named for longtime supporter and Dallas businessman Tom Slone, a proponent of vocational training – will bring together private partners and professional volunteers to provide hands-on certificate training and internship opportunities to HOPE Farm’s student participants.

HOPE Farm has served fatherless boys ages 5-18 and their mothers or caretakers in the southside of Fort Worth since 1997, working to eradicate the cycle and effects of fatherlessness by cultivating at-risk boys into tomorrow’s leaders. And while HOPE Farm celebrates its young men who go on to college to pursue their dreams, the reality is that college – and its price tag – can be a nightmare for many students. Instead, HOPE Farm is helping their boys dream of a new future.

If you’d like to help these young men graduate high school with real hands-on work experience, a trade certificate, and connections to community business leaders, consider donating to the effort. Now through December 31, 2020, an anonymous donor will match all gifts for the Slone Vocational Center up to $70,000.

For more information about HOPE Farm or to support the cause for a career-ready, empowered workforce, click here.