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Stemuli Co-Founder and CEO Taylor Shead [Photo: Michael Samples]
Stemuli’s Taylor Shead Wins Pitch at U.N.‑Sponsored ‘AI for Good’ Competition
by David Seeley | Apr 19, 2024
Dallas-based Stemuli's Founder and CEO Taylor Shead will now represent North America at the Innovation Factory World Competition in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 30. She also snagged a $200,000 prize package for her startup—a generative gaming platform that redefines continuous learning through immersive experiences and personalized pathways.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 17, 2024
Dallas-based HundredX, a mission-based data and customer insights provider, partnered with Forbes to create the newly released 2024 Best Brands for Social Impact list. Powered by HundredX data, the list recognizes the top 300 brands for social impact based on over four million pieces of consumer feedback on more than 3,000 businesses during the past year.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 17, 2024
Illinois' Univar Solutions said it will help provide ClearShift with a channel to market its "high-grade, carbon-neutral specialty chemicals" that are slated to come online in 2027 from a forthcoming ClearShift facility in Louisiana.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 16, 2024
The Dallas Public Library's J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in downtown Dallas—one of America's largest—was built in 1982 across from Dallas City Hall, and many agree it could use an overhaul. That especially includes library officials and consultants they brought in for a report on the building's future, among other needed investments in the city's library system.
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The Dallas Cowboys partnered on the construction of Cedar Crest Community Center's football field, one of many sports and social services offerings at the Southern Dallas center. [Video still: Behind Every Door]
Behind Every Door Opens Cedar Crest Community Center in Southern Dallas, and a New Bank Is Part of the Plan
by David Seeley | Apr 11, 2024
Dallas nonprofit Behind Every Door Ministries purchased a faded, 50-year-old community center from the Salvation Army in partnership with Veritex Community Bank, the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL Foundation, local pro golfers Jordan Spieth and Scottie Scheffler, and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw. A $15 million capital campaign has led to a revitalized community hub for Southern Dallas.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 5, 2024
The iconic 1949 theater has been a vacant presence in South Dallas for 15 years. But it's about to get a vibrant new life as an arts and community cultural hub though a $75 million renovation and expansion, led by the nonprofit Forest Forward.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 4, 2024
AT&T said its additional $3 billion commitment—on top of $2 billion committed in 2021—will address affordability and adoption, the main barriers to broadband Internet connectivity for those who need it most. “Connectivity is critical for success and prosperity in America today," CEO John Stankey says.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 3, 2024
The New York-based nonprofit NPower has launched Path2TECH, which it calls "the first data-driven tech training course designed to help 2.7M women from under-resourced communities across the U.S. transfer existing skills from current tech-enabled jobs into pure tech positions." Classes for the program began in March in Dallas and other cities.
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Dr. Emmanuel Manny Ayanjoke, owner and lead pharmacist at Altev Community Pharmacy in Avondale, Ohio. [Video still: McKesson]
Irving-Based McKesson Launches Project To Address ‘Pharmacy Deserts’ in Underserved U.S. Communities
by David Seeley | Apr 2, 2024
Low-income residents without access to vehicles often find themselves more than a mile from much-needed medicines and prescription drugs. Project Oasis, a new McKesson initiative, aims to help address that.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 1, 2024
Last week, WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes and the Impractical Jokers, who've both helped grant wishes, teamed with Make-A-Wish America President and CEO Leslie Motter to launch “WishMakers Wanted." The global campaign aims to recruit 1 million people worldwide to sign up as “WishMakers” by the end of April's World Wish Month.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 29, 2024
Long's Austin-based Re:wild and Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences have announced a new partnership to accelerate global efforts "to save species on the brink of extinction, search for lost species, and restore key habitats for species recovery and rewilding."
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 27, 2024
Moral injury is the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when a person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct, the city noted.
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Clockwise from upper left: Alena McQuarter, Betty Hill Stewart, Jessica Shepherd, Teresa Coleman Wash, Sherrika Sanders, Nikki Delk, and Kathy Hubbard.
7 Trailblazing Women in STEAM To Be Honored for Shattering Barriers and Inspiring the Next Generation
by Quincy Preston | Mar 26, 2024
The Dallas Chapter of The Links announces the 2024 Women Who STEAM Awards Luncheon honorees, recognizing outstanding achievements in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
The April 4 event also marks the inaugural year of the Eddie Bernice Johnson STEAM Academy Scholarships, established in honor of the late Congresswoman's dedication to STEAM education.
The April 4 event also marks the inaugural year of the Eddie Bernice Johnson STEAM Academy Scholarships, established in honor of the late Congresswoman's dedication to STEAM education.
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Mar 25, 2024
Dallas-based tax experts have tips for both corporations and startups.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 22, 2024
With a nonprofit career spanning 35 years, Julie Diaz had served as interim president and CEO since May 2023 upon the departure of former CEO Matthew Randazzo.
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