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Café Momentum founder and executive chef Chad Houser launched the Momentum Advisory Collective, a new 501(c)3 created to scale the successful Café Momentum restaurant and program. [Photo: ChadWindham]
Can Restaurants Revolutionize the Juvenile Justice System? This Dallas Chef Turned Nonprofit Leader Is Betting On It
by Sandra Engelland | Mar 11, 2021
Over the next ten years, Café Momentum's leader plans to add ten new nonprofit restaurant markets. By offering job opportunities and culinary training, Chad Houser serves up much-needed hope to keep young people out of the cycle of incarceration.
by Bella Pinera |
Mar 3, 2021
Suzanne Smith, the CEO of Social Impact Architects, collaborated with other nonprofit experts to offer suggestions to the problems affecting the social sector as well as educated and encouraged other organizations.
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by Bella Pinera |
Feb 26, 2021
Joe D’Cruz, the Catalyze Dallas founder and managing director, has been named to the Board of Directors for The Center for Advanced Defense Studies’ (C4ADS), a nonprofit organization providing data-driven analysis on transnational security issues with plans to develop innovative solutions to complex challenges.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 25, 2021
Providing cell service in all the ERs in a city and helping the FCC track down and stop robocallers are top recent accomplishments from Kate Hopkins' telecom tech team.
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Building a Better Tomorrow: United Way Dallas, Social Impact Firm Name 11 Nonprofits to Collaborative Cohort
by Bella Pinera | Feb 23, 2021
The group will develop innovative solutions to remove barriers to obtaining living-wage jobs for Black and Latinx adults.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Feb 23, 2021
To Rastogi, a high speed rail and the Texas Hyperloop aren’t the only exciting transportation technologies on the horizon. The VP at AECOM is part of gamechanging ideas—like electrifying roadways and automated/connected vehicles—that could soon transform our day-to-day lives.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 22, 2021
Last year, VolunteerNow's users gave 1.6 million hours to 3,500 local nonprofits. As its recruitment and reporting platform expands across the country, the Dallas-based nonprofit needed an on-demand solution that would broaden its reach.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 19, 2021
Alliance members are opening their homes to people who need shelter during the winter storm emergency.
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Daniel Powell, CEO of Spark Biomedical
Dallas-Based Spark Biomedical Gets FDA Clearance for its Drug‑Free Solution to Opioid Withdrawal
by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland | Feb 18, 2021
The medical device startup developed the Sparrow Therapy System, a wearable neurostimulation device that provides drug-free opioid withdrawal relief. What's next? Spark also has another device in clinical trials to help the youngest victims of addiction—babies. Meet CEO Daniel Powell in our Q+A.
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This Fort Worth Logistics and Moving Startup Delivered Free Firewood in DFW During the Winter Storms
by Alex Edwards |
Feb 17, 2021
Now, Gozova has teamed with two other local businesses to help those close to home. On Saturday, Feb. 20, the trio will supply firewood at Tulips Fort Worth from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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by Michaela Markels |
Feb 16, 2021
The late Fort Worth billionaire’s foundation is making new strides in neurodegenerative brain disease research with its announcement of a partnership with CurePSP. Together they aim to facilitate researcher access to brain tissue and data and help advance the world towards treatments of these currently deadly diseases.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 12, 2021
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from Stack Sports, Perkins Coie, Duane Morris, INTRUSION, Plutus21, and more.
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Women Helping Women: Texas Women’s Foundation Honors Seven Trailblazing “Agents of Positive Change”
by Alexa Vickaryous | Feb 8, 2021
Meet the influential women who will be honored by the Texas Women's Foundation for their work in catalyzing change and new opportunities for other women and girls. The virtual event will be next level, says TWF CEO Roslyn Dawson Thompson.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 5, 2021
Price and her team at Kanarys, a platform that fosters collaboration between companies and employees on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), had a landmark year in 2020.
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by Alexa Vickaryous |
Feb 2, 2021
Dallas-based education and robotics company RoboKind has transformed its social-emotional education program to assist students with autism in learning more efficiently in remote settings.
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by Michaela Markels |
Feb 2, 2021
This year’s AHA Business Accelerator program winners received funding for their innovative business solutions to health inequities. Both aim to prevent unnecessary deaths caused by lack of funding, training, or resources in medical emergencies with their products.
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