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The DEC Network Marks a Decade of Driving Innovation in North Texas with 2023 Impact Report

by | Dec 18, 2023
“The currency of our mission is still job creation in parts of the city that really need jobs," Bill Chinn, CEO of DEC Network, told Dallas Innovates.
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Comerica Bank Surpasses Three-Year, $5B Small Business Lending Commitment
by | Dec 14, 2023
"Our lending commitment over the past three years has reached thousands of businesses to help them thrive and succeed," said Omar Salah, Comerica Bank EVP and director of Small Business Banking.
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CDFI Friendly Fort Worth Hires Finance Pro as Executive Director
by | Mar 13, 2023

The city of Fort Worth announced that finance and community development professional Glenn Forbes has been hired as executive director of CDFI Friendly Fort Worth, launched just over a year ago....

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Metroplex Civic & Business Association, Building Partnerships Today for A Better DFW Tomorrow
The MCBA helps businesses and their employees become more connected to their communities, so both they and the region continue to thrive.
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Greater Good: Dallas Business Community Unites To Revamp CitySquare’s Food Pantry

by | Nov 18, 2020
Leadership Dallas chooses a community project supporting a local nonprofit each year, with CitySquare being chosen for 2020. Although this is a year like no other, as Gillea Allison puts it, "When Dallas sets its mind on something, it gets it done—and this project was no different."
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TWU Ranks Top in Texas and Fifth Nationally for Ethnic Diversity, According to U.S. News
by | Sep 15, 2020
TWU's chancellor says diversity and lived experience are drivers for innovation.
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Anurag Jain and Patrick Brandt Share How They Started Nonprofit Get Shift Done Amidst a Pandemic
by | Sep 2, 2020
What started as an idea with backing from community organizers and restaurant owners, Get Shift Done has rallied support to give meals and livelihoods to at-risk groups in 11 cities.
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To Common Desk, COVID-19 Wasn’t the Death of Coworking. It Was the Start of Something New
by | Sep 2, 2020
Trey Bowles and Delanie Majors from The DEC Network hosted Founder and CEO of Common Desk Nick Clark to discuss how his company is innovating to help entrepreneurs get back into shared office spaces.
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Dallas’ Hoblitzelle Foundation Adds Mike Rawlings and Lizzie Horchow Routman to its Board of Directors

by | Aug 5, 2020
Coinciding with the election of former Mayor Mike Rawlings and Lizzie Horchow Routman, a member of the legacy Horchow Family, the Hoblitzelle Foundation has elected a new slate of officers that includes its first female Chair.
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PSA Management Founder Patrick Aliu on the Firm’s Projects with DFW International Airport, DART, and Others
by | Aug 3, 2020
Since expanding to the Dallas market in 2000, PSA Management has gone on to manage projects across the country and launch a scholarship foundation with Dallas College.
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Dallas Mavs, Stars, and Zoo Team With Dallas County Health for #NTXDoesItRight
by | Jul 31, 2020
The new full-fledged, mask-wearing campaign “could not be more needed in our community,” says creative partner Jackson Spalding.
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How Vista Bank and the Main Street Lending Program Help Small Businesses Recover From COVID-19
by | Jul 29, 2020
John Steinmetz, CEO of the Dallas-based community bank, wants businesses to know there's an alternative to the PPP. Main Street Lending Program loans range from $250,000 to $300 million and are meant to help businesses that were profitable pre-COVID survive.
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Dallas-Based Comerica Invests $2M For Small Businesses and Small Farm Operators to ‘Weather These Challenging Times’

by | Jul 22, 2020
Investments to Lendistry and California FarmLink will target businesses in underserved areas as well as small-scale farms and ranches providing fresh food to their communities.
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Q+A: DART’s Chief Innovation Officer on Putting the Agency’s Capacity to Work During COVID‑19
by | Jul 20, 2020
CIO Grergory Elsborg, who has been dealing with fallout from the pandemic for about a quarter of his year-long tenure, talks about his role and how it has shifted to help the community. The Dallas Area Rapid Transit system has helped school districts deliver meals to kids, completed grocery deliveries for paratransit riders, and has multiple partnerships in development—all in the midst of a pandemic.
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Q+A: PepsiCo Foods North America’s Joan Cetera on Frito-Lay’s Local Community Efforts
by | Jul 16, 2020
Through Southern Dallas Thrives and Frito-Lay's collaboration with Volunteers of America, the Plano-based company continues to support causes in the Dallas region and beyond.
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