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The Dallas Foundation President and CEO Julie Diaz [Photo:Kim Leeson/The Dallas Foundation]
The Dallas Foundation Promotes Interim Leader to President and CEO
by Lance Murray | Mar 22, 2024
With a nonprofit career spanning 35 years, Julie Diaz had served as interim president and CEO since May 2023 upon the departure of former CEO Matthew Randazzo.
by Lance Murray |
May 11, 2023
Julie Diaz, who most recently served as the foundation's executive vice president and COO, will take the reins from Matthew Randazzo as he departs to take the helm of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 28, 2023
The Dallas Foundation announced that a new chair and vice chair have been appointed for its board of governors.
The first community foundation in Texas, the Dallas Foundation, said that Lydia B....
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 13, 2022
Four local organizations have received 2022 grants from the foundation's Mary M. Jalonick Women’s Philanthropy Institute. New Friends New Life—which helps women and their children overcome backgrounds of abuse, addiction, and poverty—received the lead grant of $150,000.
$50,000 grants went to Braswell Child Development Center, Community Basket Mobile Farmers Market, and Mosaic Family Services.
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Matthew Randazzo [Photo: The Dallas Foundation]
The Last Word: Matthew Randazzo on The Dallas Foundation Crossing the $1B Mark in Giving
by David Seeley | Nov 4, 2022
For nearly a century, The Dallas Foundation—Texas’ first community foundation—has impacted causes that have helped communities thrive across North Texas. On Thursday, the foundation announced it has awarded more than $1 billion to Dallas-area nonprofit organizations that work to improve the lives of North Texans. That eye-popping total reflects almost a century of philanthropic partnerships and grantmaking.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 4, 2022
On Thursday, the foundation announced it has awarded more than $1 billion to Dallas-area nonprofit organizations that work to improve the lives of North Texans. It crossed that historic mark after nearly a century of philanthropic partnerships and grantmaking.
“Although the impact to date has been significant, we are truly just getting started," said the foundation's president and CEO, Matthew Randazzo.
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![POETIC is one of the Community Impact grant recipients, with a mission of "equipping girls who have experienced child maltreatment, commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking to find their voices, reclaim their narratives and persist forward." [Image: POETIC]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/POETIC-image-from-Dallas-organization-website-360x203.jpeg)
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 20, 2022
From POETIC—which helps girls who've experienced maltreatment, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trafficking to find their voices—to Parks for Downtown Dallas, Café Momentum, Family Gateway and more, the 27 nonprofits share one ultimate goal, The Dallas Foundation says:
They all provide "children and families with a brighter and more equitable community to live in.”
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 30, 2022
From a literacy organization to a farm and neighbor space to a nonprofit startup accelerator, the 25 first-ever recipients of The Dallas Foundation's Racial Equity Fund grants are working to make Dallas a more equitable and thriving city. The fund, launched in late 2021, seeks to address the ongoing disparities that directly impact Dallas’ Black and Hispanic residents.
The Dallas Foundation's president and CEO says he's confident the investments "will propel true, tangible change in the community."
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Jason Wang, founder and CEO of FreeWorld [Photo: Peter Prato]
2021 Pegasus Prize Winner FreeWorld Gives ‘Legit Second Chances’ to the Formerly Incarcerated
by David Seeley | Dec 9, 2021
The Dallas Foundation awarded the $50,000 prize for FreeWorld's efforts to end generational poverty and recidivism by "accelerating economic mobility for returning citizens."
The nonprofit literally drives its graduates to new lives by training them to become truck drivers with stable, high-paying careers. Its founder and CEO has been in their shoes—he was convicted at age 15 for aggravated robbery in Dallas.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Jan 28, 2021
After8toEducate received the largest award of $50,000, which will support its mission to help homeless Dallas youth.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 1, 2018
The grand-prize winner will receive a $10,000 donation to a charity of the winner’s choice. The next four finalists will get grant checks for their respective organizations.
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