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Dallas-based Bonton Farms is one of the recipients of the T.D. Jakes Foundation/Wells Fargo grants for 2025. [Photo: Samsung US]
T.D. Jakes Foundation and Wells Fargo Announce Over $9M in ‘Community-Transforming’ Grants
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."
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 25, 2024
The Innovation Awards 2025 recognizes 76 companies and trailblazers paving the way for the future of innovation in North Texas. Here's who made the finalists list.
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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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Last year, Southwest Airlines became the first airline in Paul Quinn College's corporate work program—and the school's official airline. [Photo: Southwest Airlines Co.]
Paul Quinn College Powers Up with Tech to Propel HBCU and Urban Work College Mission
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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by Lance Murray |
Jun 26, 2023
The communications firm accepted the Telly Awards for work on behalf of its clients, two of them in North Texas. The award showcases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. Here are links to all the winners.
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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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From Automated Airport Parking to On-Demand Rides, North Texas Boosts Autonomous Vehicle Capabilities
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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by Sandra Engelland |
Nov 28, 2020
The DFW multifamility market also led in the second quarter with modest gains due to government stay-at-home orders.
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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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Paul Quinn College Launches 36-Month Urban Scholars Degree Program for High-Achieving Students Who Want to Make a Difference
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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by Sandra Engelland |
Mar 2, 2020
The Mavs donated a professional-grade basketball court complete with a mural from Dallas street artist Tex Moton and Sport Court technology.
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by Payton Potter |
Apr 1, 2019
College president Michael Sorrell says justice is about ending generational poverty and offering opportunity to every student. Here's how a changing educational trajectory is growing enrollment and pushing more students toward graduation.
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