Key Programs
Social Services
Community Kitchen
The Cornerstone Community Kitchen uses food as a tool to strengthen bodies and minds, resulting in a healthier, more sustainable Community. Cornerstone provides meals at a 9,600 square-foot facility, dedicated to serving others. About 13,000 meals are served to our homeless neighbors monthly, five days every week.
Community Kitchen
Days We Serve
Sunday – Breakfast
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – Lunch/Dinner
Wednesday - Dinner
Thursday – Lunch
Friday – Closed
Saturday – Lunch
Clothing Closet & Shower Facility
The Cornerstone Clothing Closet and Shower Facility serves approximately 1,000 homeless people monthly. Individuals receive a hot shower and clean clothing while having their basic needs met in a caring environment. Services are provided three times a week.
Clothing & Shower Facility
Hours We Serve:
Tuesday - 8:00am - 11:00am (Showers)
Thursday - 8:00am - 11:00am (Showers)
Saturday - 9:00am - 12:00pm (Clothing)
Cornerstone Laundromat
The Cornerstone Laundromat provides a safe gathering place for community members to have access to affordable laundry care. The laundromat incorporates a coin-less kiosk for users to wash and dry loads of clothes in a clean environment with access to computers, games, and television while they wait. The Cornerstone Community Laundromat has expanded its outreach via a Mobile Laundry Unit to serve needs in the community and beyond.
Cornerstone Laundromat
Hours We Serve:
Monday - Saturday 9:00am - 6:00pm
Community Development
Real Estate Acquisition
Cornerstone Community Development Corporation serves the South Dallas and Fair Park community by addressing social needs with the goal of assisting individuals to break out of poverty and become contributing members of the community. Real estate acquisition and real estate development are essential for the Cornerstone Community Development Corporation to accomplish this task. As a result, CCDC is building partnerships to implement a three-pronged real estate strategy – acquisition, stabilization, and redevelopment.
Vacant land throughout Cornerstone's focus area presents opportunities for strategic acquisition and redevelopment aimed at achieving community impact. Cornerstone owns 13% of its target area (51 properties). Fifty-three additional properties are targeted for acquisition, representing 511,000 square feet of residential, commercial, and vacant land.
Affordable Housing
CCDC is focused on creating desirable and affordable places where people want to live, work, and play. The desire is to create affordable neighborhoods that provide sufficient incentives to existing residents and businesses, allowing them to remain in the community while attracting new residents and business. The master plan hopes to produce affordable housing, multi-use buildings, retail downstairs, residential upstairs, mix income complex, single-family dwellings and perhaps a senior complex.
Shalom Builders of Texas
Shalom Builders of Texas (SBOT) is a ministry of the Cornerstone Community Development Corporation. The marginalized Senior population is often overlooked and falls through the cracks. This segment is the last to be served, which is why SBOT is compelled to assist Seniors with minor home repairs. Currently, SBOT is focused on assisting Seniors in the Forest District of Dallas and the South Dallas Community.
The Need
Shalom Builders of Texas seeks to bring God’s Shalom (wholeness) to Seniors needing minor home repairs particularly to the uninsured, under-insured, disabled or elderly families in the South Dallas area. The needs of this identified group are tremendous due to their lack of financial support and resources.
Our Goals
Be an avenue of support for Seniors needing home repairs by mobilizing volunteers to assist homeowners with minor home repairs.
- Provide quality work in accordance with the local building codes where the repairs are done.
- Glorify God throughout the process of assisting Senior homeowners by being the presence of Christ and making Him known.
Southpoint Community Market
Opened on June 19, 2021, Cornerstone officially opened the Southpoint Community Market. The market is a community-centered grocery store dedicated to providing residents with access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and essential items at affordable prices. We believe that everyone deserves access to quality groceries, and our mission is to make that a reality in our neighborhood.
At Southpoint, you'll find a wide selection of fresh produce, including seasonal fruits and vegetables sourced from the Cornerstone Garden whenever possible. In addition to fresh produce, we also offer other essential grocery items to meet your everyday needs.
Why Shop with Us
- Freshness Guaranteed: We prioritize quality and freshness in all our products.
- Affordable Prices: We believe in offering affordable options without compromising on quality.
- Convenient Location: Located right in our neighborhood, shopping at Southpoint Community Market, you're supporting our community and helping us fulfill our mission of providing access to essential groceries for all residents.
South Dallas Cloud Kitchen
The South Dallas Cloud Kitchen is an incubator where small South Dallas businesses without a store front can have access to a professional kitchen and provide fresh and healthy food options. This facility allows Cornerstone to work with entrepreneurs to expand their business models by providing food items prepared in a certified kitchen space. It also provides job opportunities, cooking classes for local residents, and Community Market Days several times during the year.
Education
After School Enrichment Program
The Cornerstone Afterschool Program provides an educational and enrichment program to help low achievers and disadvantaged students fulfill their academic potential and play a part in efforts to reduce educational gaps. Our enrichment program provides activities that increase participants’ interest in a variety of programs, seek to improve their self-confidence, and help develop new skills and abilities.
Monday – Thursday 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (During School Year)
Click Here to enroll in the Cornerstone After School Enrichment Program
Summer Plus Program
The Cornerstone Summer Plus Day Camp is an eight-week program that provides services to children in the South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhoods by conducting a Vacation Bible School-style camp and a Summer Learning Enrichment Program. The camp allows us to connect with children and families in the community by providing learning activities to broaden their minds, knowledge, and experience through learning career path opportunities during the summer months.
Camp is held Monday – Friday from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM and is free for the students. Daily lunch and snacks are provided.
Click Here to enroll in the Cornerstone Summer Plus Day Camp 2024
Cornerstone Career Center
In a groundbreaking partnership with Dallas College - North Campus and Construction Education Foundation (CEF), Cornerstone Career Center (CCC) has emerged as a beacon of hope in the Dallas/Fort Worth (D/FW) area, addressing the issues of joblessness and under-employment within minority communities. The mission and purpose of the CCC is to be the bridge that spans the gap between employers seeking skilled professionals and individuals yearning for quality job opportunities.
Training Programs: At the heart of CCC's impact is its intensive, eight-week career training programs designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge needed to secure competitive wages, thrive in the workforce, and advance in their chosen fields. Courses cover a spectrum of industries, including electrical, plumbing, HVAC, construction, forklift operations, and OSHA compliance.
Job Placement and Wraparound Services: CCC goes beyond training by ensuring a seamless transition from education to employment. Upon completing the program, participants benefit from job placement assistance and a range of wraparound services, enabling graduates to step into their new careers with confidence. These services address potential barriers to success, providing support for transportation, food, and minor emergencies.
Workforce Development
At CCDC, our workforce development program offers participants access to a range of services, including job training and job placement from our Prison Aftercare Program and onsite community programs. We understand that transitioning into the workforce can be challenging, which is why our training programs are designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge needed to secure competitive wages, thrive in the workforce, and advance in their chosen fields.
In collaboration with the Cornerstone Career Center's curriculum, participants have access to a diverse range of opportunities across various industries.
Health & Wellness
Cornerstone Medical Clinic
The Cornerstone Medical Clinic has proved to be a welcome and much needed entity that meets the needs of the South Dallas community. The medical clinic offers the homeless population and the local community a chance to visit a medical doctor once a week. The clinic also allows the patient to remain informed of their medication. Pastor Chris Simmons says we have seen more people since the COVID-19 crisis. “People are now more worried about going to the hospital and getting sick.”
Group Lifestyle Balance Program
The Group Lifestyle Balance (GLB) Program is designed to help individuals make lifestyle changes, lose weight through healthy eating and being more physically active. These lifestyle changes have been shown to help reduce risk factors for diabetes and heart disease. The GLB program focuses on three components: nutrition, physical activity, and mental health. Our participants work towards achieving two main goals: increase physical activity to a minimum of 150 minutes a week and lose a minimum of 5 to 7% of their body weight. The GLB program provides 16 weeks of education sessions and continues for an additional 8 months of group support to help in reaching their goals. The Cornerstone GLB Program has been partnered with Baylor Scott and White Health and Wellness Center since 2019. This program is a part of a national program from the University of Pittsburgh, Diabetes Prevention Program and the Center for Disease Control, Prevent Type 2 Diabetes.
Collaborative Partnerships
A “Maternity House,” that provides temporary housing and support services to expectant teenage mothers aged 18-21 in the Dallas area.
Viola’s House utilizes a holistic approach in order to help teen expectant mothers make enduring, positive changes in their lives.
The Cornerstone Center for Economic Opportunity helps start and grow small businesses that serve unmet needs in the South Dallas community, as well as provide opportunities for entrepreneurship and employment.
Trinity Restoration Ministries is a prison mentoring and aftercare ministry. The dual emphasis involves meeting with and mentoring inmates prior to their release from prison, counseling them, and working to help them make connections with churches and other ministries on the outside. TRM ministers not only to inmates, but also to their children and families.
The King’s Academy partners with families to provide children with an exemplary Kingdom education by investing in the whole child; spiritually, academically, and emotionally. The King’s Academy believes that children were created in God’s image and therefore have great value and purpose. TKA teachers create and maintain a learning environment where students are treated with dignity, respect, and love. Every child is unique with his or her individual rate of physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development.
Hope Farm is a long-term leadership development program that guides at-risk boys, without the benefit of a positive male role model in their homes, from the time they are 5-7 years old until high school graduation and beyond.
Bike Friendly South DallasTM is a 501(c)(3) organization with the goal of helping the community learn about, earn, repair, and become familiar with bicycles and safe cycling. We advocate for cycling as a viable method of transportation, cycling safety, and awareness in the south Dallas community and beyond. We believe bicycles are beautiful and our mission is to get more butts on bikes!
Cornerstone Crossroads Academy is a second-chance high school helping students ages 17-25 earn a diploma, discover their purpose, and find pathways to success through rigorous academics, holistic case management and supportive vocational training.
The Well is an extension of the Trinity Restoration Ministries prison mentoring and aftercare ministry for women.