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COVID-19 Relief: Communities Foundation Receives $1M From Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas for PPE, Child Care, and Seniors
by Quincy Preston | Apr 22, 2020
The $1 million donation will be provided through BCBSTX's newly created COVID-19 Collaborative Grant Fund. The donation grant will help provide personal protective equipment to first responders as well as help them with child care costs across the state and assist seniors.
by Quincy Preston |
Apr 8, 2020
The Salesforce Care Small Business Grants were announced during a virtual event featuring Mark Cuban earlier today.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 31, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out about DART receiving a federal grant to help in the fight against human trafficking.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 24, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out about a collaboration between the University of North Texas Health Science Center and Quest Diagnostics to address preventable diseases.
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Discovery: UTA Tracks Property Values Near Transit-Oriented Developments, Grant Backs UTD Floating Turbine Design
by Lance Murray | Dec 20, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out about a conference on innovation that's coming to Dallas in January.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 31, 2019
The funding backs the expansion of Southern Dallas Thrives, which provides healthy meals, quality childcare, career opportunities, and college preparation.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 18, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find out how UTA is using water fleas to study infertility.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 20, 2019
Dallas was the first city in Texas where the Uber app was available in 2012. Now, the city will host the second largest Uber hub outside of its headquarters in San Francisco.
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TWU Receives Nearly $1M Grant to Bolster Education in STEM Fields
by Lance Murray | Jul 31, 2019
The National Science Foundation grant will back the Scholarships, Teams and Research (TWU STAR) project aimed at increasing undergraduate engagement, retention, and graduation in STEM-related fields.
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![From left: Roger Taylor, manager of probation services for the Dallas County Juvenile Services Department; Byron Sanders, Big Thought President and CEO; U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, (D)-Dallas; and Ty Bledsoe, assistant vice president for external affairs at AT&T; Erin Offord, senior director of programs at Big Thought. [Photo: Rachel Walters]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/15-2Walters_BigThought-34BigThought_ATT-CreativeSolution-970-360x203.jpg)
by Lance Murray |
Jul 3, 2019
Creative Solutions works with young people who come to the nonprofit through the Dallas County juvenile system with the aim of bettering their lives and the community. The nonprofit has posted a new position—Opportunity Advisor—someone who will be a part of the young people’s future so they can “live their best, truest, most authentic life.”
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 14, 2019
You’ll also find out about a McKinney-based scientist who’s been invited to join the Scientific Advisory Council by the Evidence-Based Toxicology Collaborative in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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by Natalie Le |
Jun 3, 2019
Dallas is one of five cities selected to receive the two-year grant, which was awarded to United Way of Metropolitan Dallas by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions.
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Sunfinity designed and installed a 471-panel, 160 kW solar system on the Fischer Family School of Life Skills on the Dallas-based My Possibilities campus. (Photo Courtesy Sunfinity]
My Possibilities Uses $200K Grant to Fund Solar Power for Campus
by Lance Murray | Apr 26, 2019
My Possibilities will install a 471-panel, 160 kW solar system on the Fischer Family School of Life Skills at the Campus for Higher Learning in Plano, putting the nonprofit on the 'cutting edge.'
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 12, 2019
You’ll also discover more about how a UT Southwestern researcher’s insights into alternative medicines and practices adopted by cancer patients and how Kanarys is partnering with UT Austin to research workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Mar 21, 2019
VideoFest calls itself the oldest and largest video festival in the U.S. Its AltFiction Fest celebrates filmmakers who create movies, television shows, and web content.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 8, 2019
You'll also find out about how UT Southwestern researchers are studying magnetic fields as an alternative treatment for patients with severe depression in this roundup of research and development activities in North Texas.
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