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How Bank of America’s Disability-Inclusive Workforce Drives Business Success
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | Sep 9, 2025
The bank's Support Services team fills a critical role in BOA—acting as an in-house consulting firm for every line of business.
by Lance Murray |
Jul 16, 2025
The two nonprofits have shared missions, complementary programs, and decades of compassionate service between them. Their merger—with each brand continuing under its respective name—"reflects a bold, community-first vision and an unwavering commitment to the people and families they serve," the nonprofits said.
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Jan 16, 2024
According to the CDC, up to one in four adults in the United States has a disability. That’s 61 million people, and roughly 13% of that number have cognitive and/or learning disabilities that affect concentrating, remembering, or making decisions....
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Sep 27, 2023
A first-of-its-kind in North Texas—and possibly the country—My Possibilities in Plano is growing in size and scope to train its "Hugely Important People" for roles in sectors from retail to hospitality. It’s not a moment too soon as the disability community continues to grow, and the workforce gets stretched.
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My Possibilities is one of BCBSTX's 2024-2025 Blue Impact grant recipients. [Photo: My Possibilities]
Over $6.5M in Texas Workforce Grants Announced, Including Several for North Texas
by Lance Murray | Jul 12, 2023
Four organizations working to help build a skilled, diverse, and growing workforce in North Texas are recipients of the new Texas Talent Connection Grants. See who they are—and how they're making a difference.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 28, 2023
Shelley Crowder is the newly appointed chief program officer at My Possibilities, a Plano-based nonprofit organization dedicated to elevating how the community serves adults with Intellectual and/or developmental disabilities....
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 9, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Ribbon Communications, Texas Brand Bank, Evolve Biologics, and COMSoverign Holding Corp., Warrior Connection, T.D. Jakes Foundation, Mindzie, the City of Fort Worth, UT Arlington, Allied Electronics and Automation, KTA Media Group, My Possibilities, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 5, 2022
My Possibilities' new Career Services Building, which broke ground in May, will provide support to another 300 HIPsters (aka Hugely Important People—MP's students) on a weekly basis.
Planning for its completion, Tiffanie Douglas will bring the “expertise, passion, and energy to foster an environment where our staff and HIPsters can thrive," says Karen Wald, My Possibilities' chair of the board.
Planning for its completion, Tiffanie Douglas will bring the “expertise, passion, and energy to foster an environment where our staff and HIPsters can thrive," says Karen Wald, My Possibilities' chair of the board.
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My Possibilities integrates health and fitness activities into daily practice for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. [Photo: Hunter Folsom Lacey/My Possibilities]
My Possibilities Gets $40K Grant to Help Adults with Disabilities to Lead Healthier Lives
by David Seeley | Jan 25, 2022
The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant was awarded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. Plano-based My Possibilities will use the funding to support its Healthy Lifestyles curriculum, integrating health and fitness activities into daily practice for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 17, 2021
You'll also read about the FC Dallas Foundation opening a soccer field for My Possibilities, Hari Mari partnering with St. Jude's, North Texas Food Bank Starts Its New $500M Campaign, and more organizations making a difference in Dallas-Fort Worth right now.
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by Capital One |
Feb 24, 2021
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, My Possibilities and Capital One are creating a more vibrant future for North Texas’ most vulnerable.
sponsored by Capital One
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Oct 21, 2020
Soap Hope wants to attract more people with disabilities to participate in the academy's internships to learn the inner workings of employment in a fulfillment center. Take a look inside the new center and meet the HIPsters, a.k.a. Hugely Important People, working there.
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How Will 2020 Ultimately Reshape Society? Dallas’ Social Impact Leaders Weigh In
by Alex Edwards | Sep 1, 2020
The combination of two pandemics—one centered on a virus and the other on race—has led to a pivotal point in history. Dallas Startup Week's Social Impact Track tackles the question of how this year's events could lead to meaningful and lasting change.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Apr 15, 2020
As part of the MPact initiative, Soap Hope will work as a curriculum, employ people with disabilities, and help fund the nonprofit's work.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Aug 26, 2019
From higher education projects (UT Dallas, TSU) to K-12 initiatives (Frisco ISD, Dallas ISD), here's your briefing on what's going on in education in North Texas.
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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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![Erica Kosemund, Chief Brand Officer, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Gillian Breidenbach, Chief Partnership Officer, North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; Chief Gary Batton, Chief of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Monica Paul, Executive Director of Dallas Sports Commission and President of North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; John Hobbs, Senior Executive Officer of Communications, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; and Heidi Grant, Senior Executive Officer of Commerce Administration, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, celebrate Choctaw Casinos & Resorts becoming an Official Dallas World Cup 2026 Host City Supporter. [Photo: North Texas FWC Organizing Committee/Choctaw Casinos & Resorts]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FIFA-Choctaw-dec-2025.jpg)
