Permian Basin Area Foundation, Midland, Texas
Creating legacies for good...forever

Permian Basin Area Foundation is a community foundation serving a broad range of needs of the communities and individuals in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico.

Permian Basin Area Foundation facilitates the creation of permanent charitable funds, in partnership with many donors, and provides grants to address changing community needs and enrich the quality of life in the Permian Basin.

The Spring 2008 edition of Foundation News is now online.
We invite you to join the Permian Basin Legacy Society.
News (2/4/08):

Permanent scholarship fund honors J. Alex and Ruby Henson Haggard

TRIAD Fund - Texas Resources for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment

Foundation Features

We are pleased to highlight some of the stories about donors to the Foundation and grants from our various charitable funds. Other stories are featured in our Annual Reports and Foundation News articles. We invite you to be added to our mailing list by contacting Sarah Marler at smarler@pbaf.org.
Nancy Jo Mims Geers was a young “Pink Lady” volunteer at Midland Memorial Hospital, when she Photo - Nancy Jo Mims Geersconfirmed her youthful interest in the medical field and decided that helping people overcome physical challenges would be her life’s work. Eventually focusing on the specialty of occupational therapy, she earned her degree from Texas Women’s University, which included internships at Parkland and Scottish Rite Children’s Hospitals. She practiced at children’s hospitals in San Antonio and Oklahoma City and became a Certified Hand Therapist.

Declining health complicated by a near fatal automobile accident brought Nancy back to her hometown of Midland. Nancy died in 2000. In memory of their beloved daughter, James and Mary Mims established the Nancy Jo Mims Geers Scholarship Fund in 2006 to support scholarships for students of occupational therapy and other medical services.