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Mary Kay Ash Foundation recently awarded grants totaling $100,000 to four North Texas domestic violence shelters.

Each of the shelters will receive $25,000 to help put their clients on the path to safety, hope, and healing. Mary Kay Ash Foundation’s funds will provide continued support of general operating costs, transitional housing, outreach counseling facilities, as well as therapeutic services, legal representation, and other services.

“In Texas, one in three women will experience domestic violence and Dallas County has the highest number of female domestic violence deaths in the state of Texas,” said Jessica Bair, Board Member of the Mary Kay Ash Foundation and great-granddaughter of Mary Kay Ash. “When my great-grandmother began her Foundation more than 20 years ago, she envisioned a world where no woman would feel unsafe. Our mission to achieve that vision begins at home, in North Texas.”

In addition to the grants, employees at Mary Kay Inc. assembled 600 Mary Kay “Pink Changing Lives” care kits for donation to the four shelters. T

Since 2000, 2,700 organizations advocating for eradicating gender-based violence have received grants from the Mary Kay Ash Foundation.

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