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Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge Executive Director Chris Smith [Composite photo; original: Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge Inc.]
Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center Appoints New Executive Director
by Lance Murray | 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.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 9, 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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by Lance Murray |
Aug 8, 2024
Texans Can Academies helps at-risk students earn their high school diplomas. It said it will use this donation to enhance student services, including counseling, tutoring, and career readiness programs.
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by Lance Murray |
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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Janet Jensen, founder of The Jensen Project, winning the Sparking Transformation Award at the June 2024 World Without Exploitation Conference. [Photo: LinkedIn]
The Last Word: The Mission Behind The Jensen Project’s $6M‑Plus New Grants To Fight Sex Trafficking
by Lance Murray | 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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by Lance Murray |
Jul 30, 2024
National Hire a Veteran Day happened last week on July 25. But that mission happens every day all year long for NextOp, a nonprofit that recently launched operations in North Texas. Now it's gotten a grant from The PenFed Foundation to expand its program.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Jul 26, 2024
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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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Awards Nearly $3M in Community Grants to 101 Texas Organizations
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 25, 2024
BCBSTX said $2.9 million in Blue Impact grants have been awarded to 101 community-based organizations across the Lone Star State, including many in North Texas. President Jim Springfield said the organizations will "leverage their knowledge, experience, and talents on the local level to help create healthier communities."
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Impact Ventures' refreshed headquarters space. [Photo: Impact Ventures]
Dallas’ Nonprofit Impact Ventures Announces New Dates for Inclusive Capital Summit, Celebrates Cohort 8 Graduates, Adds Board Members
by Quincy Preston | 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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by Lance Murray |
Jul 19, 2024
Tiffany Tate brings a wealth of experience and dedication, the agency said. She takes on the new role a decade after joining The Family Place as vice president of non-residential services in 2014. Most recently, she was chief operating officer and interim CEO.
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by Quincy Preston |
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.
Their work could reshape how cities approach sustainability, starting in Dallas.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 15, 2024
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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Stewpot Art Program [Photo: Sheraton Dallas]
Sheraton Dallas To Host Exhibition of Work from Stewpot Art Program
by Lance Murray | 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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by David Seeley |
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 11, 2024
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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by Lance Murray |
Jul 10, 2024
The grants came out of a workshop for researchers with a focus on Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Frontotemporal Dementias (FTDs), part of a class of debilitating neurodegenerative diseases that may shorten a person's lifespan, and for which no current treatments exist.
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