Min-Grant Facts & Traditional Schedule

​The purpose of the grants is to support small projects of non-profits that serve our neighborhoods.  Applications are accepted from July through August 31st, and recipients of Mini-Grants are notified September 30th. The funds are awarded in February following the M2M Bike Tour (always the first Saturday in December). The supported projects to be completed within a year.  As part of the grant process, a completion report with photos is required.  Grants are awarded once yearly and are not automatically renewed; grant applications must be submitted each year beginning in July. 

2021-21 M2M Mini Grant Recipients
​Basic Education & Literacy
  • Project Transformation Rio Texas will purchase books and curriculum supplies for a holistic day camp serving elementary and middle school aged children. Books selected for the curriculum are chosen through a creative lens focusing on social-emotional learning and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
 
  • Say Si will purchase equipment, supplies, costumes, and props for Activating Leadership Art & Service (ALAS) Youth Theatre Program. The ALAS Program supports students as they write, direct, design, and perform an original theatre production.
 
Community & Economic Development
  • Alpha Home will replace six (6) computers, speakers, monitors, and webcams to support around 650 inpatient and outpatient clients utilizing remote counseling services.
 
  • The Dee Howard Foundation will support fifteen (15) schools participating in the Aviation & Aerospace Art Contest. The art contest taps into the creativity of Pre-K – 12 students and to generate interest and excitement around STEM fields.
Disease Prevention & Treatment
  • RotaCare Free Clinics will supply the first of four medical clinics being established in San Antonio with required medical supplies. The clinics will be established in areas that are economically underserved and whose residents are either underinsured or unhoused having no insurance.
 
Maternal & Child Health 
  • Healthy Futures of Texas will design the online user experience for a consent curriculum serving 315 young women between the ages of 13-21. The curriculum is part of an on-going pilot curriculum project with young people as co-developers of new sex ed. programs.
 
  • Rise Recovery will provide kids in recovery a sober prom experience that frees them from any potential temptations and allows them to maintain their often-hard-won sobriety.
 
  • TEAMability, Inc. will add two new pieces of rehabilitation equipment to their therapy practice including one (1) Buddy Boat and one (1) Rainbow Platform Swing to service children and their families with complex disabilities.
 
  • VetStrong will provide 4 families with full bed sets as part of their No Families on the Floor Program.
 
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
  • Rivercity Outreach Centre Inc. will purchase cleaning supplies for the shower expansion project which services Bexar County residents who do not have access to a hygienic facility.
 
  • Roy Maas Youth Alternatives will provide basic clothing necessities for children and youth ages 5 to 24, who arrive at RMYA Centro Seguro Drop-in Center. RMYA Centro Seguro is the first stop for youth in our emergency shelter and transitional & supervised independent living programs.
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2018-2019 MTR Charities Mini-Grant Awards: Children's Association for Maximum Potential (CAMP); Earn-A-Bike; Ella Austin Community Center; Martinez Street Women's Center (MSWC); Migrant Center for Human Rights; Project Prom Dress San Antonio; San Antonio Oasis; San Antonio Youth Literacy (SAYL); SAY Si; Snack Pak 4 Kids SA; Friends of Spare Parts; and TEAMability Inc.