STAY IN THE LOOP

Fort Worth Avenue Development Group is one of HOC's sister organizations, and they have done a ton to make our community a better place to live. Preserving and improving the Western Heights Cemetery is at the top of their latest to-do list. 

To that end, you're invited to their 3rd annual cemetery fundraiser, Dia De Lost Muertos. Your $35 ticket / donation includes:

• Taking a cemetery tour
• Locating unmarked graves
• Learning about tombstone symbolism
• Experiencing a unique silent auction
• Enjoying light refreshments and beverages

Your support will help them build a brick memorial plaza with personalized engraved bricks, improve visitor accessibility with upgraded walkways and railings, and embrace the native ecosystem to decrease the ‘heat island’ effect.

Thanks for your support and have fun!

GET TICKETS/DONATE HERE

To all our HOC members, family and friends, thank you for making our Giving Day!

We reached 79% of our $10,000 goal – $7,866 – with the donations broken down as follows:

• 42 Individual Donors: $2,866
• Ray Scott (State Farm) Matching Funds: $2,500
• Mike Matthews (HOC) Matching Funds: $2,500

In addition to funds from our NTX Giving Day campaign, we've also received:

• $1,800 from 16 donors in April through the Communities Foundation of Texas
• $2,000 from a private family foundation

We can't thank you enough for all your support, and we look forward to future grants going towards neighborhood improvements, beautification, events and more. HOC Fundraising Chair Mike Matthews (and matching donor) was overjoyed with the results. “I thank everyone" he said, "for their charitable contributions that encourage HOC to move forward with initiatives to help Oak Cliff neighborhoods.”

The Giving Day Celebration

The Giving Day celebration at La Calle Doce Restaurante was also a success. 21 donors from Brentwood, Brettonwoods, Kiest Forest, North Cliff, Stevens Park Village and Wynnewood North celebrated the results and had a lot of fun doing so.

You Can Still Give

Although NTX Giving Day has come and gone, donations are still being accepted. So if you want to give local, you still can. Just click below to go to our page on the NTX Giving Day website.

Thank you again!

The 2024 HOC Grant Awards Celebration held on June 27th was a big success, and not only for the grant recipients. Overheard comments from some of the 37 guests (not made up by the writer of this article) include: "Wow!" "Fabulous food!" "Knocked it out of the park!" "So much positive energy and laughter!" "Truly a magical evening!" "The best HOC party I've been to in a while – or ever!"

Congratulations to all ten neighborhood association recipients, and many thanks to our VP of Grants, Cynthia Michaels (shown handing out the awards above – if you want to see more photos of the event – including the food – click here).

Curious about the results? Out of 34 grant applications submitted and reviewed, 30 were approved. All ten neighborhoods that applied will receive grant funds, totaling $24,042! Here's the neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown:

• Beckley Club Estates: $554
• Brettonwoods: $1,154
• Elmwood: $469
• El Tivoli: $1,098
• Kiestwood: $811
• Stevens Park Estates: $1,680
• Stevens Park Village: $5,787
• West Kessler: $1,177
• Winnetka Heights: $3,000
• Wynnewood North: $8,312

We look forward to seeing all the improvements and attending all the events funded by HOC grants in the coming months. We also look forward to your grant applications for 2025, so start thinking and planning now. How can we help you?

Once again, Heritage Oak Cliff participated in Oak Cliff Earth Day at Lake Cliff Park. The April 21st event gave us all another opportunity to celebrate our green spaces and the environment, as well as think about the part we play in taking care of our planet moving forward.

Thank you to Cynthia Michaels for pulling all this together. Thanks, also, to our dedicated team of HOC volunteers for manning (and womanning) the HOC booth: Barbara Macleod, Ryan Stepp, Cirzy Gonzalez, George Roberts, Janice Coffee, Terry Thomas and others. We sold a lot of cups, shirts and books. We also met and talked with lots of newer and younger neighbors, all of whom were very interested in their neighborhood and the role of HOC. Plus, one lucky booth visitor will win our raffle for a free year of membership.

We also enjoyed seeing representatives from many of the HOC neighborhoods. Happy Earth Day, everyone!

On December 11, close to 60 people attended the beautiful 2023 Heritage Oak Cliff Holiday Celebration at 445 Events. We had raffle winners and service award winners, but at this event, everyone was a winner. The room was decorated in sophisticated black and gold (including a black and gold Christmas tree), the hors d’oeuvres were d’licious, the company was fantastic and everyone enjoyed our special just-for-the-occasion beverage, The Cliff (vodka, cranberry juice and elderflower liqueur). Thank you, Trudy Newton, VP of Membership, for making this a celebration worth celebrating.

Congratulations to everyone reading this article for a successful HOC year; you make our community great. And a special congratulations to our service award winners: David Preziosi and Donovan Westover are our 2023 Neighborhood Champions, and Mike Matthews is our 2023 Fundraising Champion.

If you’d like to see more photos from the event, check out the photo album here (photos by 2nd2Nunn Photography).

What a success!!

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for the Fall Home Tour and a big thank you to all of our amazing homeowners who opened their doors to us and all of the wonderful house sponsors, advertisers, and partners of the event! The proceeds from the tour have been distributed in the form of grants to help neighborhoods across Oak Cliff!