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Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center Appoints New Executive Director

by | Aug 9, 2024
Chris Smith is a former Friends board president and longtime board member and brings a wealth of experience in nonprofit leadership, marketing, and strategic planning to the organization, Friends said.
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Plan Your Week: The Ultimate Guide to Dallas Startup Week 2024

The DEC Network, organizers of Dallas Startup Week, are calling DSW24 “the second largest startup week in the USA” — and it kicks off this Sunday!...

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The Last Word: Why Fort Worth’s Alcon Foundation Is Sponsoring Orbis’ ‘Flying Eye Hospital’ Mission to Mongolia
by | Aug 8, 2024
The Alcon Foundation has supported Orbis International for more than 40 years, providing monetary donations for the Flying Eye Hospital and its mission to prevent and treat avoidable blindness around the world. The latest mission is in Mongolia through August 22.
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The Last Word: The Mission Behind The Jensen Project’s $6M‑Plus New Grants To Fight Sex Trafficking

by | Aug 1, 2024
The Jensen Project, an Irving-based nonprofit that fuels strategic partnerships in the fight against sexual violence, has announced its 2024 GrantTank recipients, who will cumulatively receive more than $6 million for this application cycle. Founder Janet Jensen began GrantTank to address the isolation and lack of collaboration among nonprofits in the movement to fight sex trafficking.
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Dallas-Based RIP-IT Sports Names Former American Airlines Exec as First CMO Amid Launch of Female-Exclusive Athletic Shoes
Gauge Capital-backed RIP-IT, driven by a "built by women, for women" philosophy, has appointed Amy Craven as CMO to spearhead the launch of its innovative volleyball and softball shoes. Under the leadership of new CEO Janelle Anderson, the company is riding the global momentum around investment in women’s sports.
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Dallas’ Nonprofit Impact Ventures Announces New Dates for Inclusive Capital Summit, Celebrates Cohort 8 Graduates, Adds Board Members

by | Jul 19, 2024
Amid planning disruptions and system outages, Impact Ventures also got a fresh look for its HQ and a "generous grant" from the Meadows Foundation. The nonprofit unveiled initiatives to expand its support for "underestimated" entrepreneurs.
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Experts Envision Dallas as ‘Where Brain Science Meets Climate Action’
by | Jul 19, 2024
Dallas' climate plan, deemed a national leader by the Brookings Institution in 2022, is coming up on its five-year mark. Integration architect Julie Hiromoto and globe-trotting brain health policy expert Dr. Harris A. Eyre are exploring how the city's Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan (CECAP) could benefit from a "Brain Capital" boost. Now, they believe, is the time to “formally incorporate this lever for transformative systems change.”

Their work could reshape how cities approach sustainability, starting in Dallas. 
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The Last Word: Cornbread Hustle CEO on Giving ‘Second Chances’ via Jobs to People in Transition
Garcia's Cornbread Hustle is a staffing agency that helps people with criminal records and those in recovery find meaningful employment, by working with "forward-thinking companies" that value second-chance hiring.
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Sheraton Dallas To Host Exhibition of Work from Stewpot Art Program

by | Jul 11, 2024
The Stewpot Art Program serves those experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Dallas. It provides a safe environment and outlet for people to express themselves via art—with 90% of sales going to the artists and 10% benefitting the art program for supplies and field trips for artists.
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The Last Word: The Loop’s Executive Director on Opening the Hi Line Connector
by | Jul 11, 2024
Dallas is inching, walking, jogging, and pedaling its way toward completion of The Loop, a 50-mile, $135 million hike-and-bike trail that aims to connect people, neighborhoods, green spaces, and much more via a sweeping loop from White Rock Lake to the northeast to Oak Cliff and downtown Dallas and down south through the Trinity Forest before circling back northward again.
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TACA Selects Six Arts Groups for Its Second Arts Accelerator Program
Following up on its inaugural 2023-2024 program, The Arts Community Alliance has named six Dallas County arts organizations as members of its second Arts Accelerator cohort—ranging from kNOwBOX dance to Lone Star Winds to The Writer's Garret and more.
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