METROPLEX MILITARY CHARITABLE TRUST
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Mission Statement
Metroplex Military Charitable Trust (MMCT) was started in 1990 in Dallas, TX. MMCT's mission is to provide economic support to local military personnel, regular, reserve and retired, and to military support charities and volunteer organizations
About This Cause
Such assistance has been as varied as underwriting every local Toys For Tots Campaign since 1991; providing individual grants to individual returning reservists, who have lost their jobs and/or homes to; making grants to DFW USO, DFW Honor Guard, JRB Carswell Guard & Reserve Association, Texas National Cemetery Foundation, and DFW Marine Families. Its longest and largest effort has been to provide direct support to families of amputee, PTSD, and brain-injured OIF & OEF Vets as well as the Vets themselves through the North Texas VA Warrior Patient Shuttle service since September 2007. MMCT has helped underwrite and assist in the Cowtown Warriors Ball in Fort Worth since its inception in 2013. Through that endeavor over $175,000 has been donated over the last two years and is being used to provide direct assistance to Marines and Navy Corpsmen, who were members of the Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment at Quantico, Virginia. The Trust, in addition to help raise the donations, oversees the disbursement of these donations only to alums of the Regiment at Quantico, who have retired to the Metroplex, were honorably discharged and who received Purple Hearts. One current ongoing project completely underwritten by the MMCT is the Metroplex Veterans Legal Services periodic Veterans Legal Clinics. Metroplex Veterans Legal Services (MVLS) is a project of MMCT. Metroplex Veterans Legal Services offers single issue legal clinics to Veterans on a pro bono basis. Our legal clinics focus on removing the legal barriers to employment for Veterans. The goal of our clinics is to provide free legal counsel and advice to low income, unemployed, homeless, disabled, elderly, or at risk for homelessness Veterans for outstanding traffic tickets, warrants from tickets, and driver's license issues caused by tickets; child support modification; expunction of criminal arrests; and combat related special compensation. These unpaid traffic tickets, and delinquent child support can lead to suspended driver's licenses, which can lead to barriers for these Veterans to obtain employment. To date we have offered eleven Veterans legal clinics, which include three child support modification clinics, three Veterans traffic ticket legal clinics, two expunction/order of non- disclosure clinics, an employment law clinic, a consumer fraud clinic, and a combat related special compensation clinic (CRSC), which is a military benefit for retired disabled Veterans. At our first eleven legal clinics, 200 legal consultations were provided to 194 Veterans and 1 widow of a Veteran with 77 City of Dallas cases resolved, an order of non-disclosure obtained, 1 expunction of a criminal record, an award of special monthly compensation, and numerous legal consultations between the veteran client, his/her volunteer attorney and the Texas Attorney General’s office provided case specific information on child support modifications. Our first eleven clinics served Veterans that reside in sixteen counties, surrounding Dallas, Texas. For our first 11 clinics (except the CRSC clinic), 79% of the veteran clients served were unemployed, 58% were homeless or had been homeless in the last year, 55% are disabled, 35% are combat Veterans and 98% of the Veterans' income were 200% or lower than the Federal poverty guidelines. All of the Veterans served at the combat related special compensation clinic were disabled Veterans, and 93% were disabled combat Veterans. The eleven Veterans Legal Clinics were attended by 54 pro bono attorneys who have extensive knowledge and experience in the single issue area of law, i.e. traffic tickets or family law. These attorneys provided legal counsel, advice, and pro bono representation to the Veterans. We partner with law firms, solo practitioners, and Assistant Attorney General’s from the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Texas HEROES project to provide the legal assistance. The legal clinics we are providing are innovative and seem to have never been attempted before in our area. An innovative feature of our legal clinics is they are single issue legal clinics. We are the first non-profit legal clinic in the North Texas area, and it appears to be the first in Texas, to offer on-line registration for clients for our legal clinics. The on-line registration streamlines the registration process, and check-in process at the legal clinics. Also, the on-line registration allows for case research to be completed in advance of the legal clinic. Additionally, law firms can run conflict checks in advance of the legal clinic as well. Another innovative feature of our legal clinics is they are completely mobile. We have conducted our legal clinics at the Veterans Resource Center, college campuses and law firms. First of all, the space is donated for the legal clinics so there is no expense to the program. Conducting the clinics at the law firm office decreases any non-productive billable hour time for travel and allows a group of attorneys to participate from one law firm.