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Dallas Strong Benefit Concert Set
for Memorial Weekend 2018
by Mallory Houser | Jul 17, 2017
Zak Chaouki was inspired to create the Dallas Strong Music Festival after watching the news about the law enforcement deaths unfold last year.
by Heather Noel |
Jul 17, 2017
The official two-year pilot of the West Dallas Middle-Skills Pathways Initiative, backed partially by a $375,000 service agreement from the city of Dallas, will begin Wednesday with 14 participants.
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by Chloe Bennett |
Jul 13, 2017
By tightening their grip around a chip-implanted teddy bear, a signal travels and connects to a screen, allowing users to reminisce about personal memories of places they've been via Google Earth technology.
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by Jonathan Blum |
Jul 12, 2017
Dallas is in the midst of an innovation renaissance. With incubators and accelerators seemingly in almost every neighborhood, the market is flooded with investment opportunities.
sponsored by Polsinelli
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[Photo via For Oak Cliff Freedom School Facebook ]
Program Teaches South Dallas Kids Value of Literacy
by Chloe Bennett | Jul 11, 2017
The Pease Freedom School is part of a national program working to engage young people of color to instill confidence and close the achievement gap.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 11, 2017
Selected teams are challenged to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with AI technologies to take on the world's great challenges.
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by Dave Moore |
Jul 11, 2017
A video starring Cuban is the first in a series of testimonials featuring local business leaders and entrepreneurs speaking about the advantages of moving to and living in Dallas.
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by Chloe Bennett |
Jul 7, 2017
On Thursday, Toyota and United Way of Metropolitan Dallas awarded a $1 million Impact Grant to four area shelters who are pooling together their efforts to help homeless women and children.
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Hood puppet designers Stefano Brancato and James Ortiz [Photo: Karen Almond via DTC]
Popcorn and Politics: DTC’s ‘Hood’ Gives Puppets Life Through Repurposed Items
by Sabrina Scott | Jul 7, 2017
Puppeteers James Ortiz and Stefano Brancato craft puppets from newspaper, underwear, cutlery, and other everyday materials for their playful tale of young people standing up to injustice.
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by Mallory Houser |
Jul 6, 2017
At the end of the four-week camp, students will perform their own recorded music live at For Oak Cliff's back-to-school festival on Aug. 12.
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by Amy Wolff Sorter |
Jul 5, 2017
Radio play-by-play sports voices Brad Sham, Eric Nadel, Chuck Cooperstein, and Dave Strader will tell stories and take questions from the audience to benefit four children's charity organizations and Rays of Light for the third annual Talk of the Town event.
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by Amy Wolff Sorter |
Jul 5, 2017
The free, 90-day “transformation program” is providing assistance to returning citizens from jail or prison or recovering addicts by training them how to be entrepreneurs.
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[Image: Dallas Innovates; monkeybusinessimages via istockphoto]
Children’s Health to Provide Virtual Mental Health Counseling in Area Schools
by Mallory Houser | Jun 29, 2017
The pilot program beginning this fall will deliver telemedicine therapy visits to students in select Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD schools.
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by Chloe Bennett |
Jun 28, 2017
ParkIT and Brass Tacks Collective received $72,000 each for their early stage businesses.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 28, 2017
The Dallas-based foundation will use the grant to support the new Gulf Coast Conservation Loan Fund aimed at bolstering Deepwater Horizon mitigation funding for the Texas Gulf Coast.
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by Heather Noel |
Jun 27, 2017
Impact House will open Saturday as a space for freelancers and entrepreneurs to work on their ventures and where the community can come together to drive social change.
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