Texas Federation of The People Foundation

10/03/2026

10/02/2026

You are invited to FMBC of Houston. A Baptist Church where we have Praise & Worship is at 11 a.m. on Sundays.

10/01/2026

Businesses need customers who have money left after paying their bills.

If working families across the “99%” lose the ability to afford housing, food, transportation, and healthcare, the damage would reach far beyond their households.

Consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of U.S. GDP. A widespread loss of purchasing power would threaten business revenue, jobs, and economic growth. (bea.gov)

The consequences would build:

• Restaurants, retailers, salons, and entertainment businesses would lose sales as families cut spending beyond necessities. Some would reduce hours, lay off workers, or close.

• Employers would face staffing problems when workers struggle to afford transportation, childcare, or housing near their jobs.

• Families would fall behind on bills, postpone medical care, and take on debt to cover essentials. Children would experience the stress and disruption at home.

• Small businesses would face pressure from both directions: rising operating costs and customers with less money to spend.

• Local governments would face weaker tax revenue as demand for housing assistance, food support, and other services grows.

Lost sales lead to lost jobs. Lost jobs leave households with even less money to spend. A prolonged affordability crisis would deepen this cycle.

The financial strain is already measurable. In the Federal Reserve’s 2025 survey, only 63% of adults said they would cover a $400 emergency entirely with cash, savings, or a credit card paid off at the next statement. (federalreserve.gov)

Business leaders and elected officials need to treat affordability as an economic priority. Pay, housing costs, childcare, transportation, and essential bills belong in the same conversation.

A company’s employees are another company’s customers. When their paychecks no longer cover a stable life, businesses lose the spending they depend on.

10/01/2026

Community support belongs inside our schools.

These photos show TXFPF bringing supplies to E. W. Cullen Middle School. Every box represents a practical commitment to students’ dignity and families’ everyday needs.

Students need soap, deodorant, toothpaste, and menstrual supplies. They also need adults who teach self-care, money management, communication, and peaceful conflict resolution. Hygiene supplies support confidence. Life skills build independence and character.

Through Omilicha Girl Harmony Hub and Ụmụ D**e, Men of Valor, we invite our community to support both.

• Help students access hygiene essentials without embarrassment.
• Sponsor life skills workshops and mentorship.
• Support parents with basic necessities so household dollars stretch further.

When a family receives needed supplies, money previously spent on those items stays available for groceries, rent, transportation, and utilities. Those savings matter to parents working to keep their households stable.

Public safety deserves this kind of investment. Young people need trusted adults, safe places to learn, and practice resolving conflict. Supporting families and schools strengthens our community’s prevention efforts.

Businesses and corporations: put your resources to work locally. Organize an employee supply drive, sponsor recurring deliveries, fund a workshop, or bring your team’s skills into a mentoring partnership.

Contact Texas Federation of the People Foundation to get involved.

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://txfpf.org

10/01/2026

Invest in our youth before they face their hardest decisions alone.

A young person’s self-esteem grows when adults listen, respect their voice, and give them opportunities to succeed. Character develops through guidance, responsibility, and practice making choices.

Through Omilicha Girl Harmony Hub and Ụmụ D**e (pronounced approximately “oo-moo dee-keh”), Men of Valor, Texas Federation of the People Foundation places girls’ and boys’ growth at the center of our work.

• Omilicha Girl supports girls’ dignity, wellness, confidence, and leadership. Access to menstrual health supplies and honest conversations helps girls participate without shame.

• Ụmụ D**e encourages boys to build self-respect, express their emotions, respect others, and take responsibility for their actions.

• Both initiatives emphasize character development: honesty, empathy, accountability, and following through on commitments.

Your investment means more than a financial contribution. It means showing up, mentoring, sharing a skill, providing supplies, or supporting a safe space where young people feel heard.

Help us give our youth consistent support and room to grow. To donate, volunteer, or discuss a partnership, contact [email protected].

09/18/2026

Omilicha Girl Harmony Hub, powered by the Texas Federation of the People Foundation, proudly delivered hygiene products for boys and girls at Cullen Middle School.

Every student deserves access to essential personal-care items without shame or embarrassment. These supplies help students feel clean, confident, prepared, and ready to focus on learning.

We thank Cullen Middle School for welcoming us and supporting the health and well-being of its students.

This is community care in action.

Rebuilding Lives, Restoring Hope: Together We Thrive.

09/17/2026

HARRIS COUNTY AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES, YOUR CITY NEEDS YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION.

This is a direct call to every elected official, state representative, senator, clergy member, social worker, professor, employer, corporation, and community leader.

Show up for the Texas Restore Act Symposium.

A nonviolent criminal record should have an end date.

Too many Texans continue to lose jobs, housing, education, and stability years after completing their sentences. Their families carry the cost. Their communities feel the impact. Texas loses trained workers, taxpayers, and business growth.

Leadership requires your presence.

Join this Community Conversation and help advance a responsible path toward record relief, employment, housing access, stronger families, and safer communities.

Monday, September 28, 2026

Doors open: 4:30 PM
Program begins: 6:00 PM

Texas Southern University
Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs Auditorium
3100 Cleburne Street
Houston, Texas 77004

Parking:
TSU Parking Garage
3690 Sampson Street
Parking fees may apply.

Reserve your seat:
https://bit.ly/RestoreActRSVP

Do not send a representative in your place. Bring your voice, your authority, your resources, and your commitment to the people you serve.

Texas is watching. Harris County is ready. We need you in the room.

07/04/2026

A Conviction Ends. Reputation does not.

That is the part nobody talks about when we discuss reentry. A person can serve every day of their sentence, complete every requirement, and still carry a label that never gets updated. Not in the eyes of an employer. Not in the eyes of a landlord. Not in the eyes of a neighbor who only knows one fact about them.

Here is what that does to a human brain.

The body cannot tell the difference between a threat happening right now and the constant, quiet fear of being found out, passed over, or judged again. Both trigger the same stress response. Held long enough, that response stops being occasional and becomes the baseline. Researchers call this allostatic load, the wear and tear a body takes on from carrying stress it was never built to hold for years at a time. It shows up as high blood pressure, disrupted sleep, and a nervous system stuck in high alert long after the actual danger has passed.

Now add a permanent public record sitting on top of that. A person is not just managing their own recovery. They are managing everyone else's assumptions about who they are, every single day, for the rest of their life. That is not a light weight. That is a second sentence, served on the mind instead of behind a wall, and it is served with no release date.

This is why record relief matters. Not because someone's past should be erased or forgotten, but because a person should get to be judged by who they are now, not frozen in place by who they were on their worst day. A reputation that never gets to change is not accountability. It is a life sentence with extra steps.

We can build a state that asks people to be responsible and gives them an actual path to prove it. Texas can be that state. That is the work.

07/04/2026

"I Thought It Was Corrections"

We call it the Department of Corrections. But ask anyone who has walked out of those gates what actually got corrected, and you will hear a very different story.

Prison does not prepare most people for freedom. It prepares them for prison. Years spent under constant surveillance, stripped of decision making, conditioned to react rather than think, do not build a person ready to hold a job, lead a family, or trust a neighbor again. They build a person wired for survival in a world that no longer exists once the gate opens behind them.

This is not an excuse. It is a fact we have to face head on. When a system removes agency for years and then expects full, responsible citizenship on day one, it is not correcting anything. It is manufacturing the very outcomes it claims to prevent. The isolation alters how people see the world. The hypervigilance never fully turns off. The absence of real rehabilitation, real job training, real mental health care, leaves people more equipped to survive incarceration than to survive freedom.

Texas has a choice. We can keep calling it Corrections while the outcomes tell a different story, or we can build a system that actually does what its name promises.

The Texas Restore Act is part of that answer. It does not erase accountability. It removes the permanent barriers that make it nearly impossible for someone who has served their time to ever fully return home, to their families, their communities, and their own future.

A person should not spend the rest of their life paying for a debt the law itself says is settled.

Restoring rights. Rebuilding lives. Restoring Texas.