Ensure. Empower. Enrich.

Our Mission:

Brother Bill's Helping Hand ministers to the Dallas community by ensuring the essentials of life, empowering through learning, and enriching relationships through faith, family, fitness, and finance.

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February 8, 2019

Now in its 75th year, Brother Bill's Helping Hand in Dallas is seeing an increase in clientele, with over 8,000 visitors to the community clinic in 2018 and more than 300 families coming for food each week last year.

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Our Work

***Brother Bill’s Helping Hand provides food, healthcare and educational programming to those in need in the West Dallas and Oak Cliff communities.***
***We bring positive change to people’s lives by providing them with tools, resources and hope.***

We Are Helpers

The ‘b’ emblem in our logo is actually an outline of what hands look like when making the sign for ‘help’ in American sign language. Our team, our volunteers and our donors are all helping our neighbors across West Dallas have better lives in the face of adversity.

Our Impact

Brother Bill’s Helping Hand has been serving the West Dallas community for more than 79 years. The core programs include a grocery store, where neighbors have access to healthy food; access to quality healthcare for the uninsured through our Clinic; and education programs that include English classes, After-School programming, dozens of children’s camps including STEM, Art, and Music. We also offer exercise classes, diabetes education, and various other healthy living classes.

West Dallas is one of the poorest parts of the city of Dallas. In fact, 50% of students live below the poverty line and approximately 80% of all students are economically disadvantaged. The team and volunteers at Brother Bill’s Helping Hand are focused on engaging, supporting and empowering its neighbors so that they can rise up out of poverty.

2.1 Million

TOTAL Meals served in 2023

In 2023, we served 2.1 million meals during visits to our Grocery Store at Brother Bill’s Helping Hand Main Campus, South Dallas Community Market, and through our school partnerships.

191

zip Codes served

In 2017 we served a single zip code, 75212. In 2023 we provided services to neighbors in 191 zip codes across North Texas.

5,676

visits to our community clinic

With Emergency Room visits averaging $3,600 per visit, our Community Clinic potentially saved Hospital Emergency Departments over $20,000,000 last year.

Saving Lives Through Proactive Healthcare

Our Community Clinic provides high quality health care at little to no cost to our patients. Our clinic played a significant role in one neighbor’s life-threatening fight against breast cancer.

Watch our video to learn more about our partnership with The North Texas Food Bank

Get Involved

It takes thousands of volunteers and generous donors to ensure Brother Bill’s Helping Hand can continue to serve the West Dallas and Oak Cliff community. There are many meaningful opportunities to serve as a Helping Hand – serve as a translator, teach a class, work a shift at our grocery store or make a contribution. We hope you will join us throughout the year in any way you can.

volunteer opportunities

We had 3,400 volunteers supporting our programs last year. Volunteering is essential to our program. If you have the heart to give your time, we’d love to hear from you.

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Our doors are open at Brother Bill’s Helping Hand and we enjoy having our supporters come visit and learn more about who we are and what we do. Fill out the contact form to schedule a tour.

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Our work would not be possible without the generosity of our supporters. Your gift helps ensure we can provide our neighbors with the essentials of life and supportive programs.

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