The Stewpot

This one is about Dallas and Fort Worth. About our teams, our music, and the places where somebody already knows your order.

It's also about the fact that some of the people who love this place have nowhere in it to sleep tonight.

What changes that isn't complicated. Someone stops. Learns a name. Sits down long enough to hear the real answer to how are you. The situation is still hard. The person isn't handling it alone anymore.

Ninety seconds, and worth the ninety.

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He'd been unhoused for years. He said yes to being filmed.

So I was standing in the corner of an empty apartment with a camera while a man walked through it for the first time. Nothing scripted, nothing staged, no direction from me. I just didn't want to be the reason he was performing.

He ends it himself. I'm not adding anything to that.

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We asked our staff why they do what they do. The consistency of the answer in a variety of forms was astonishing.

They / We love helping people. That's it. It came up whether we were talking to someone in the kitchen, someone in housing, or someone in philanthropy.

When you're thinking about where to give today for North Texas Giving Day remember that The Stewpot isn't just doing the work, we're passionate about it. People just matter.

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Debbie has been volunteering at The Stewpot since 2008. At some point she started telling dad jokes and has never broken character...

She's one of hundreds of people who show up, build relationships with neighbors, and come back again and again. Last year that added up to the equivalent of around $2 million in hours!

Enjoy her jokes!

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We asked a neighbor, Deborah, if she’d like to tell us about her experience at The Stewpot. And she was happy to talk.

And honestly we couldn’t describe The Stewpot better. It’s about connecting you with the next step towards stability. It is a meal, then an ID, then a case manager who stayed with it, then a landlord willing to take the application.

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Someone asked us recently what The Stewpot actually does, and the honest answer took about twenty minutes. This version takes twenty-three seconds.
Meals. Mail service (pro tip: which is how a neighbor gets an address to put on an application). ID recovery. Case management. Tutoring and college readiness for kids in South Dallas. An art program where neighbors set their own prices and keep 90% of what sells.

It is a lot of different work happening on one campus, and the reason it holds together is that a neighbor can walk in for one thing and leave connected to four others.

Today is North Texas Giving Day. Every gift is matched up to $162,500, thanks to the Gill Clements Foundation, The Stewpot's Community Ministries Board, and an anonymous donor.

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