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From entrepreneurs and investors to educators and athletes, the Global Mission Summit in Dallas brings together leaders rethinking how business can be a force for good. [Photos: Global Mission Summit]
Business Meets Purpose: Inaugural Global Summit Puts the ‘Mission Movement’ in Dallas
by Quincy Preston | Oct 7, 2025
At the Global Mission Summit on Oct. 8–10, leaders and innovators are rethinking business—where purpose is infrastructure, profit fuels impact, and legacy means leaving more than returns behind. Behind it are investor Michael Moe and Dallas developer Mike Hoque, and their newly formed Global Mission Institute.
Black Founder Weekend 2025 to Drive $100K+ in Economic Impact for Black Entrepreneurs in North Texas
by Lance Murray |
Jun 22, 2025
The inaugural three-day event lands in Dallas June 27–29 at Paul Quinn College, bringing together more than 40 speakers, curated activations, and a bold agenda built to move capital, spark deals, and support Black founders.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 15, 2025
The foundation said that building on an initial $9 million philanthropic investment announced last year, which funded 16 organizations, this new cycle reaffirms its commitment to "economic empowerment through innovative solutions."
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Jan 21, 2025
D CEO and Dallas Innovates' Innovation Award winners are working to resurrect extinct species, launching autonomous trucks, reinventing military aircraft, and bringing AI into the physical world—and that's just the beginning. The 2025 awards showcase game-changing achievements—including Texas' first newly minted decacorn—across 17 categories of innovation. Here’s a look at the innovators leading the way.
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Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell takes a selfie with graduating students. [Photo: Courtesy Capital One]
The Last Word: Paul Quinn College President on a $20M Gift, the Largest in School’s 152‑Year History
by Lance Murray | Jul 25, 2024
Dallas' Paul Quinn College has received a $20 million gift from an anonymous donor, the largest in the institution's 152-year history. The gift will help fuel investments in a variety of programs for the college, which is credited as the creator of the Urban Work College model and is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in America.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 7, 2024
The Dallas-based foundation said the funding supports the creation of financial wellness and innovation centers, helps organizations convert underutilized land into affordable homes, and drives impactful change for college students across the U.S.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 8, 2023
Dallas' Paul Quinn College is "rebooting" its technology systems for the future with Ellucian Colleague SaaS. The comprehensive, "holistic" modernization aims to support the HBCU's innovative mission to take aim at intergenerational poverty and "smash it."
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by David Seeley |
Jul 25, 2023
Awarded to 101 community-based organizations across the state—including many in North Texas—the Blue Impact grants focus on health care access and target impacts of socio-economic and social determinants of health.
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Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell speaks at the 2022 CCBA annual luncheon. [Photo: Grant Miller Photography]
Innovative Educator and CCBA Leadership Award Winner Michael Sorrell Has a Simple Request: ‘Please Say Yes’
by Lance Murray | Dec 9, 2022
Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell has a vision for a global network of Urban Work Colleges that take aim at intergenerational poverty and "smash it." The first one opened in Plano in 2018.
Accepting a leadership award from the Collin County Business Alliance, Sorrell asked his staff and students to stand up. Why? Because "they're going to come see you and talk to you about hiring students to work at your companies," Sorrell told the audience filled with local business leaders. "And I want everyone to practice this with me: 'Yes.'
Accepting a leadership award from the Collin County Business Alliance, Sorrell asked his staff and students to stand up. Why? Because "they're going to come see you and talk to you about hiring students to work at your companies," Sorrell told the audience filled with local business leaders. "And I want everyone to practice this with me: 'Yes.'
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by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 28, 2022
HBCU HUB, a startup focused on connecting students to recruiters at historically Black colleges and universities, is moving its headquarters to McKinney with the aid of grant funding from the McKinney Economic Development Corporation’s Innovation Fund.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 24, 2022
NCTCOG's Regional Transportation Council believes autonomous vehicles are part of the solution to North Texas' future.
From autonomous parking at DFW airport to self-driving DART shuttles to medication deliveries in McKinney—along with local hubs for Kodiak Robotics, Aurora, and TuSimple—the region could prove to be the "most robust, automated, and connected vehicle ecosystem in the country," says one official.
From autonomous parking at DFW airport to self-driving DART shuttles to medication deliveries in McKinney—along with local hubs for Kodiak Robotics, Aurora, and TuSimple—the region could prove to be the "most robust, automated, and connected vehicle ecosystem in the country," says one official.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Nov 29, 2020
Local coworking firms use different approaches to deal with COVID challenges.
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Dr. Eric A. Johnson, chief of economic development and neighborhood services, city of Dallas.
A Timeline for Action: Dallas ‘Roadmap’ Points the Way To Economic and Social Progress
by Sandra Engelland | Nov 13, 2020
The Community Transformation Action Roadmap is a new holistic framework of economic development that benefits everyone in Dallas, says Eric A. Johnson, Dallas' chief of economic development and neighborhood services.
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Capital One’s $200M Impact Initiative Partners With Two Local Orgs to Advance Socioeconomic Mobility
by Alex Edwards |
Oct 7, 2020
Capital One is teaming with Impact Ventures and Paul Quinn College as part of its new nationwide initiative to close support growth in underserved communities and advance socioeconomic mobility.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jul 14, 2020
This fall, Dallas' Paul Quinn College will launch an accelerated Bachelor’s degree track that's designed to help students become "leaders and activists with a commitment to real change" in partnership with education innovator Minerva Project. The program, part of PQC's newly established Honors College, offers a double-major in Business and Public Policy that will focus on the economics and politics of societal transformation.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
May 13, 2020
The national commencement ceremony will feature former President Barack Obama, Kevin Hart, and other leaders in arts, music, sports, government, and business. The brainchild of Dr. Michael Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College, the virtual event celebrates students graduating from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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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)
