Impact

8 Trends Kanarys CEO Mandy Price Sees For Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in 2022

by | Dec 15, 2021
At the close of a landmark year—one that made her one of 25 Black female founders to have raised at least $4.6 million in venture capital—Mandy Price is looking ahead to what 2022 will bring for the DEI space.
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Plano-Based iDonate Raises $15M Series B to Grow Its Digital Giving Platform
by | Dec 14, 2021
iDonate wants to innovate generosity. The company's all-in-one digital fundraising platform is built to boost the impact of nonprofits. Its new funding to scale operations globally follows last year's raise of $8.7 million to expand its tech.
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Dallas-Based Common Dwelling Offers Investment Opportunities in Single-Family-Home Rentals
With an initial target raise of $20 million, Ty Lee's Common Dwelling online platform offers everyday Americans a chance to invest in—and profit from—single-family home rentals.

"I wanted to create a platform where people can invest with however much money they have available to them," Lee said. Even if that's as little as $100 or $1,000.
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Ruffing It: Bark + Build Competition Winners at NorthPark Center

by | Dec 8, 2021
On display now through December 23 at NorthPark Center, the 7th annual Bark + Build Luxury Dog House and Cat Condo Design/Build Competition is presented by SPCA of Texas. Here's a look at the winning entries—all created by AIA Dallas architects and member firms of TEXO, The Construction Association.
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Dallas Fintech Zirtue Opens Its Platform to Businesses as a New Alternative Payment Solution
by | Dec 7, 2021
Zirtue's Alternative Payment Solution—operating in stealth mode to Fortune 500 corporate partners since early 2021—is now open to all businesses for consumers to pay their bills. It's a "new level of convenience," CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Cail says: The product gives those who are struggling a way to lean on friends, family, and loved ones to make payments, while providing accountability and trust to the lender.
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Dallas Education Foundation Created an ‘Educational Metaverse’ for DISD. It’s a Finalist for a $1M STOP Award
by | Dec 7, 2021
The Dallas Education Foundation is being recognized for driving the creation of an “educational metaverse” for DISD. Developed by Dallas-based STEMuli Technology, the metaverse is currently being piloted at Dallas Hybrid Prep, the district’s first permanently hybrid school. The STOP Awards, funded by Philadelphia benefactor Janine Yass, will provide a total of $3.5 million in prizes for exceptional educational responses during the COVID pandemic.
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EarthX Ramps Up Its TV Streaming Service with New Co-CEO and Execs from TLC, Discovery, and Animal Planet

by | Nov 30, 2021
After 10 years of working toward a more sustainable future worldwide, EarthX is doubling down on its move into television. The Dallas-based environmental organization is ramping up its EarthxTV streaming service with a new leadership team of TV veterans—with plans to eventually announce traditional and digital 24x7 linear distribution deals.
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High-Tech High Heels North Texas has partnered will get a $500K grant from Toyota's US foundation.
Toyota Grants $500K to High‑Tech High Heels for STEM Pipeline Program
by | Nov 23, 2021
The North Texas nonprofit will receive a half-million dollars from the Toyota USA Foundation to help increase the number of girls entering into a college-level STEM degree program.
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The Village Giving Circle Grants $260K to 16 Orgs Supporting the Black Community

by | Nov 23, 2021
The Village Giving Circle at Texas Women's Foundation funds organizations and initiatives that positively impact the Black community in North Texas.
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GSNETX Will Launch Girl Scout Leadership Experience in Nine DISD schools With $5.4M Grant
by | Nov 22, 2021
The Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Community Partner Program will serve students in five Dallas-area ZIP codes.
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I-35 Deck Park by Dallas Zoo Will Have Major Wow Factor—and a Driving Mission
by | Nov 22, 2021
"It's not an idea—it's happening," says April Allen, president of the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation. 

Southern Gateway Park will be an engineering marvel over I-35E, with five acres of wooded slopes, water features, rocky escarpments, a restaurant/retail complex hidden under a hilltop, and one of the most awesome kids' playgrounds in North Texas. But its greatest achievement may be to make Oak Cliff whole again—and to bring all of Dallas together.
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Capital One Awards $500K in Grant Funding to Dallas-Area Nonprofits
by | Nov 22, 2021
Two nonprofits will each receive $250,000 in grant funding. The Capital One grants are part of a $3.5 million commitment to 12 nonprofit organizations.
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