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Left: Givelify Co-Founder and CEO Wale Mafolasire. Right: Mafolasire and his team at the Stevie Awards. [Photos: Givelify]

Led by Dallas Entrepreneur, Givelify Reports $300 Million in North Texas Giving, $6 Billion Globally

by | Oct 1, 2025

Could passing the offering basket become a thing of the past in places of worship? Can nonprofits rely on a third-party app to handle fundraising with one click?

Givelify, a leading online and mobile giving platform, is doing its best to realize both. And it says that Dallas-Fort Worth alone has now surpassed $300 million in donations by using its services....

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ABC 20/20 co-anchor Deborah Roberts (left) in conversation with moderator Sara Madsen Miller at the "Leading the Lone Star State: Texas Women in Public Service Summit." Roberts shared hard-earned wisdom with the audience: "Be self-assured. Know your story. Don't doubt who you are." [Photo: Leo Gonzalez/TWU]
The Last Word: ABC’s Deborah Roberts on Barbara Walters’ Advice—and Outlasting Your Critics—at TWU’s Public Service Summit
by | Oct 1, 2025
Roberts and NY Times best-selling author Jen Hatmaker headlined the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership summit in Denton on Sept. 19. The conference brought together women in public service and featured an award for retired Texas Rep. Myra Crownover.
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Dallas Innovation Alliance Brings Tech Festival to Oak Cliff Saturday
by | Sep 30, 2025
The third annual Get Connected Dallas event pairs on-the-spot job interviews and emerging tech demos—from robotics to VR—at a free community festival.
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TCU Student Uncovers Fashion’s Hidden Costs—And Designs for the Moon
by | Sep 26, 2025
In a published study, Adelaide Lovett traced how synthetic fibers shed microplastics that can end up in human organs. She also co-designed astronaut gear to guard against lunar dust—a project that earned a NASA innovation award.
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North Texas Food Bank Perot Family Campus [Photo: North Texas Food Bank/LinkedIn]

North Texas Food Bank Awards $1.3 Million in 2025 Grants to Partners Across Region

by | Sep 25, 2025
The nonprofit said the annual grants are an important part of its effort to strengthen its partner network, which helps provide food to hundreds of thousands of North Texans each year.
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2025 Time Kid of the Year Tejasvi Manoj. [Image: TIME]

TIME’s Kid of the Year Is a 17‑Year-Old Tech Whiz From North Texas

by | Sep 11, 2025
Tejasvi Manoj, a senior at Frisco's Lebanon Trail High School, made the cover of TIME for building a website that protects senior citizens from online scams. But wait, there's more: The Mark Cuban AI Bootcamp alumni is also an Eagle Scout, a violinist, and an active volunteer for nonprofits around the world.
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Davos in Dallas? At Tomorrow Summit, Speakers See a Robust DFW Economy Today—and in 2035
by | Sep 11, 2025
LinkedIn's chief economist and representatives of the Texas Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, and Nasdaq explained why the Dallas-Fort Worth economy keeps 'cruising ahead' at the Dallas Regional Chamber's inaugural Tomorrow Summit. Plus: Why AI skills are becoming 'table stakes' for job seekers and what it takes to make Dallas a global financial center.
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UTSW Molecular Biologist Wins Prestigious Columbia Prize for Work on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
by | Sep 9, 2025
Eric Olson has spent decades dedicated to what he calls “the biggest prize of all”: a cure for the devastating disease. Nearly half of the scientists awarded Columbia’s Horwitz Prize over the past 58 years went on to win a Nobel, UTSW said.
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How Bank of America’s Disability-Inclusive Workforce Drives Business Success
by | Sep 9, 2025
The bank's Support Services team fills a critical role in BOA—acting as an in-house consulting firm for every line of business.
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L to R: Tommy Martin, CEO of The Tebow Group, with Eagle Freedom Fund general partners Tim Tebow and Wes Lyons. [Photo: Eagle Venture Fund]

With Tim Tebow as a General Partner, Fort Worth Firm Launches $50M Fund to Invest in Tech Solutions to Human Trafficking

by | Sep 3, 2025
The fund builds on the success of the $18 million Eagle Freedom Fund I, which has invested in 20 high-growth companies delivering measurable impact across healthcare, law enforcement, technology, and frontline response, the firm said.
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Hunger-Fighting CANstruction Dallas Competition Is Up at NorthPark Through Sept. 14
by | Sep 3, 2025
Sprinkled all around NorthPark, the 29th annual CANstruction Dallas design-and-build exhibit features 26 science-fiction-themed canned-food sculptures. The public decides on the winners by voting for their favorite and kicking in $5 for the North Texas Food Bank.
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