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![POETIC is one of the Community Impact grant recipients, with a mission of "equipping girls who have experienced child maltreatment, commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking to find their voices, reclaim their narratives and persist forward." [Image: POETIC]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/POETIC-image-from-Dallas-organization-website-940x436.jpeg)
POETIC is one of The Dallas Foundation's Community Impact grant recipients, with a mission of "equipping girls who have experienced child maltreatment, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trafficking to find their voices, reclaim their narratives, and persist forward." [Image: POETIC]
The Dallas Foundation Awards More Than $1.4M to 27 Impact-Focused Organizations
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 20, 2022
From POETIC—which helps girls who've experienced maltreatment, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trafficking to find their voices—to Parks for Downtown Dallas, Café Momentum, Family Gateway and more, the 27 nonprofits share one ultimate goal, The Dallas Foundation says:
They all provide "children and families with a brighter and more equitable community to live in.”
by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 18, 2022
New features to the donor engagement platform GivingDNA allow nonprofits to predict which potential new donors to approach—while unlocking access to a “new generation” of donors using cryptocurrency.
“Crypto cannot be ignored anymore, and we want to make it easier for marketers to target and serve those with this asset,” says Rebecca Gregory Segovia, GM of GivingDNA.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 17, 2022
Today is the first day that over-the-counter hearing aids can be sold without a prescription. It’s a moment that Fort Worth-based Lucid Hearing has been eyeing for years.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 17, 2022
At the 37th annual Texas Women’s Foundation luncheon, Olympic track and field legend Allyson Felix was a key voice, showing that speed is of the essence when it comes to advancing opportunities for girls and women. With a theme of "Transforming Texas," the event also featured Dallas Mavericks President and CEO Cynt Marshall, the award-winning Garland High School step team, and a live-streaming room next door where 200 local students took it all in.
"Strive to live bravely," Felix told the audience and the students watching next door.
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James Harding of Google speaking at HackDFW. [Photo: HackDFW]
The Last Word: Google’s James Harding on the Promise Shown at the HackDFW Marathon
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 14, 2022
The eighth annual HackDFW, powered by Say Yes to Dallas and presented by Google, connected hundreds of aspiring technologists to several Fortune 100 companies. It was a unique 48-hour marathon that challenged more than 550 people from 80 universities. Tech teams created ways to innovatively tackle waste management, climate change, better understand decisions from the Supreme Court, and much more.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 12, 2022
After launching in August for Sky and Freeview viewers in the U.K., EarthxTV's eco-focused entertainment is now available to millions of Spectrum subscribers across the U.S. The network is slated to reach viewers in Europe by the end of this year.
"EarthxTV programming not only highlights the issues facing us but also accentuates the beauty of this planet we all share," says Rajan Singh, the network's head of distribution.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 3, 2022
Extending an FBI national media campaign to fight hate crimes, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson proclaimed October 3 as "FBI Dallas Hate Crimes Awareness Day." Wrap ads on DART buses and trains will help spread the word, and newly painted murals in two Dallas communities aim to help, too.
"Through this proclamation, we are acknowledging that hate is real. But so is love," Mayor Johnson said.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 3, 2022
The funding from the National Institutes of Health will help UNT HSC at Fort Worth advance its ongoing research on how Alzheimer's disease affects different racial and ethnic groups. Sid O'Bryant, executive director of UNT HSC's Institute for Translational Research, said there's never been a large-scale study like this before.
“This award and project are nothing short of a bio behavioral ‘moonshot’ program," adds Brian Gladue, HSC executive VP for research and innovation.
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Drex Owusu, Chief Impact Officer, The Dallas Foundation; Nicole Small, CEO, Lyda Hill Philanthropies; Matthew Randazzo, President and CEO, The Dallas Foundation; and Dave Scullin, President and CEO, Communities Foundation of Texas, at Pegusus Park.
Water Cooler at Pegasus Park Tenants Get North Texas Giving Day Surprise
by Lance Murray | Sep 26, 2022
Last Thursday, Water Cooler tenant leadership teams and boards gathered together at Pegasus Park and were surprised with more than $200,000 in prizes to support the missions of their nonprofit organizations.
Water Cooler is the community of nonprofit and social impact tenants at Pegasus Park in Dallas. Its members receive subsidized rent offering(s), access to philanthropic funds for furniture and infrastructure, and free or low-cost amenities and services designed to accelerate their respective missions, according to its website....
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 26, 2022
After a rigorous process, the top six applications to the Tech Transfer Office Showcase at BioNTX's iC3 life science summit were invited to pitch live at BioNTX's life science summit. Industry experts rated, graded, and discussed the technologies prior to the pitches
"We want to cultivate technologies that are coming out of the university ecosystem here—and we want them to stay here," said Chad Ronholdt, managing director at NVB Ventures.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 22, 2022
Kids that have cancer are sometimes seen as victims. But Salood gives them a chance to be heroes, by becoming "ambassadors" who help create and design products—with proceeds helping the families of pediatric cancer patients in need.
"These kids are very aspirational," says co-founder Kenny Freeland. " I think sometimes when the public looks at a kid with an illness, they forget that there's still a kid deep down there who has dreams and wants to do big things."
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 21, 2022
Dallas-based financial services giant Comerica Bank has named Trent Sampson, Jerry Collazo, and Adriana Najera to its newly formed South Dallas Business Banking Team that is led by Group Manager Derric Hicks.
“As the leading bank for business, it is imperative that we raise expectations in all the communities where we live and serve,” Comerica Bank Dallas Market President Amanda Mahaney said in a statement....
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From left: Bonton Farms Founder and CEO Daron Babcock, Harmony CDC Executive Director Mark Porter, and The Real Estate Council President and CEO Linda McMahon [Photos courtesy of the organizations]
How 3 Nonprofit Leaders Are Closing Equity Gaps in Southern Dallas
by Capital One | Sep 20, 2022
Capital One is partnering with Bonton Farms, Harmony CDC, The Real Estate Council (TREC) and TREC Community Investors to close gaps in equity and opportunity in some of Southern Dallas’ most impoverished zip codes.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 16, 2022
Slated to be built in Fort Worth's Historic Southside neighborhood, the planned $70 million museum will get the city funding once the balance for the project has been raised. Designed by the New York office of Denmark-based Bjarke Ingels Group, the building will house the museum on its second level, with a business incubator, restaurant, 250-seat amphitheater, and storefronts at ground level.
“Literally and figuratively, it was designed to be a beacon of light in an area that has been dark for a very long time,” says Jarred Howard, principal of the project's developer.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 15, 2022
La La Land Kind Cafe—the coffee shop chain that's been "normalizing kindness" since it opened its first cafe in 2017 on Lower Greenville in Dallas—will debut its first drive-thru location in Richardson Saturday. Offering internship programs for youths who've aged out of foster care, the brand has a goal of spreading both opportunity and joy.
That's won nice rewards for its founder, former SMU Cox School of Business student François Reihani, who made the cover of Entrepreneur's "Young Millionaires" issue and landed on Forbes' 30 Under 30 Social Impact list.
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by Communities Foundation of Texas |
Sep 15, 2022
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