Parks for Downtown Dallas

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]

The Dallas Foundation Awards More Than $1.4M to 27 Impact-Focused Organizations

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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Dallas Has Opened Its Newest—and Largest—Downtown Park
by | May 9, 2022
Carpenter Park, a 5.7-acre space that runs along I-345 near Deep Ellum on the eastern edge of downtown "will distinguish our center city for decades to come," said the chairman of Parks for Downtown Dallas when construction kicked off in 2020. The vision is now a reality.

See inside the park with our first-look photo tour.
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West End Downtown Dallas
DDI Foundation Donates $300K for West End Park Water Feature That Changes With the Weather
by | Aug 18, 2020
The interactive water table will bubble, mist, or be still as it reacts to Dallas weather. West End Square is slated for completion in early 2021.
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West End Square
Construction Kicks Off on High-Tech West End Square in Downtown Dallas
by | Jan 9, 2020
The new park is designed to incorporate evolving technologies in the West End, and is the second of four new parks planned for the city's urban center.
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