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AWS To Host a Gen AI ‘Digital Inclusion’ Hackathon in North Texas in September
by David Seeley | Aug 14, 2024
"Breaking Barriers: A Generative AI Hackathon for Digital Inclusion" will take place September 20-23 at the AT&T Foundry in Plano. WIth over $15,000 in prizes, the event is sponsored by Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip market, and Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the Claude AI chatbot.
by Lance Murray |
Aug 12, 2024
“We're excited about this opportunity with the National Science Foundation and cannot wait to make our prototype available to further democratize access to higher education and meet global changes in workforce demand,” Learning Bridge CEO Laura Hayes said. The Allen-based nonprofit is a fellow of United Way Dallas' 2025 Social Innovation Accelerator.
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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.
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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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Rose, 4, is screened by an Orbis-trained doctor in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, following a successful surgery. [Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee]
The Last Word: Why Fort Worth’s Alcon Foundation Is Sponsoring Orbis’ ‘Flying Eye Hospital’ Mission to Mongolia
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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by David Seeley |
Aug 2, 2024
"CatVideoFest 2024" is purring its way into Dallas this weekend, with cat video compilation screenings at Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff and Violet Crown Cinema in Dallas' West Village. A portion of ticket sales will go to help kitties in need.
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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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My Possibilities is one of BCBSTX's 2024-2025 Blue Impact grant recipients. [Photo: My Possibilities]
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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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 23, 2024
Twenty-six Dallas County organizations secured support for causes spanning animal welfare to breast cancer assistance. Now, the foundation is gearing up for its Summer Grant Cycle, targeting nonprofits focused on early childhood development, family homelessness, workforce readiness, and more.
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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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Cheri Garcia, founder and CEO of Cornbread Hustle, pitching her company at United Way of Metropolitan Dallas' The Pitch in 2021. [File photo]
The Last Word: Cornbread Hustle CEO on Giving ‘Second Chances’ via Jobs to People in Transition
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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by Lance Murray |
Jul 11, 2024
Sarah White, who pivoted from a career as a high school teacher to the world of tech startups in 2021, is taking on an expanded leadership position at TechFW to propel Fort Worth's entrepreneurial engine.
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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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