Here’s a snapshot of the presentations made, events hosted, and honors received by the talented and dedicated staff of the Hogg Foundation during the month of February 2025.
Alison Mohr Boleware, director of policy, was a featured speaker at the Texas Association of City and County Health Officials’ (TACCHO) Annual Premiere Public Health Conference in College Station, presenting “Texas Legislature 101”. TACCHO works to strengthen and improve local public health in Texas through leadership, education, advocacy, and development.
Together with Bryan Mares, National Association of Social Workers Texas’s Government Relations Director, Alison also gave the keynote address at the 34th Annual Texas School Social Workers Conference at the University of Texas Austin. Their presentation, entitled “Texas Legislature 101: What’s Happening at the Capitol and What it Means for You”, aimed to equip social workers with the knowledge needed to advocate for meaningful policy change.
Vicky Coffee, director of foundation initiatives, presented at a gathering of the Resilient Church Collective in Dallas. A program of the Alliance for Greater Works, the Collective’s goal is to equip and mobilize churches, throughout the state of Texas, to respond to psychological trauma experienced by youth and adults, including COVID-19, intergenerational trauma, and community violence.
In addition to planning and preparing for the One Star Foundation’s Texas Nonprofit Summit over the past year as a member of the Host Committee, Amy Loar, assistant director for the Texas Grants Resource Center, helped coordinate and facilitate breakout sessions at this year’s event in Austin. The summit offered valuable opportunities for nonprofit changemakers of all backgrounds to learn, network, and collaborate with others from across the state
Elizabeth Stauber, archivist and records manager, together with the Steve Hicks School of Social Work (SHS), hosted Dr. King Davis, SHS Professor Emeritus and former Hogg Foundation executive director, and D.D. Clark, Historic Preservation and Grant Coordinator for the Health and Humans Services Commission State Hospital System, to discuss their work preserving state hospital history. Topics included Dr. Davis’s grant from the Hogg Foundation to digitize historical ledgers at the Austin State Hospital and Clark’s work building a program for the entire state of Texas to preserve state hospital history.