The ripple effect of the pandemic created food challenges not seen in a lifetime. As grocery stores scrambled to stock shelves, countless numbers of residents found themselves for the first time seeking help from area food banks. To support the food banks like North Texas Food Bank, Tarrant Area Food Bank, East Texas Food Bank, The Food Bank of Central Louisiana and The Food … [Read more...] about Kroger Served Up A Feast Of Support For Area Food Banks With $2,397,890 For 1.2M Lbs. of Food
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How To “Stimulate” Your Favorite Nonprofit
If you’ve received or are about to receive your stimulus check, why not put it to good use? Sure, you could tuck it away under your Tempur-breeze, sign up for SMU’s Fast Track MBA program for one term or make down payment on a Louboutin red sole pump clutch bag, but what about stimulating your favorite nonprofits? After what they've been through this past year, they could use a … [Read more...] about How To “Stimulate” Your Favorite Nonprofit
Dallas Animal Services Top Dog Ed Jamison To Become Operation Kindness CEO On March 29
When Ed Jamison arrived at Dallas Animal Services a little over three years ago, he found an operation with a dismal history at best. From a cat trapped in the wall starving to death over days to the fatal attack of Antoinette Brown by a group of loose dogs in May 2016, DAS made more headlines for bad news than good. Changes were needed to stop the packs of dogs freely roaming … [Read more...] about Dallas Animal Services Top Dog Ed Jamison To Become Operation Kindness CEO On March 29
JUST IN: The Salvation Army Dallas Women’s Auxiliary’s Fashion Show And Luncheon Canceled
Despite the best of intentions and herculean efforts, The Salvation Army Dallas Women’s Auxiliary’s annual Fashion Show And Luncheon is canceled. The mega-fundraiser had gone from its 2020 spring, in-person event at the Meyerson, then a rescheduling to the fall, next to spring 2021 and finally to a virtual one scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 6. Throughout … [Read more...] about JUST IN: The Salvation Army Dallas Women’s Auxiliary’s Fashion Show And Luncheon Canceled
JUST IN: 2021 Cherish The Children Virtual Luncheon Honorees And Keynote Speaker Revealed
Leave it to Dallas CASA to be timely in recognizing people and causes. It has just been revealed that the annual Caroline Rose Hunt Cherish the Children Award will be presented to the North Texas Cares Funders Collaborative. It you’ll recall when the pandemic started, it was pretty harum-scarum. Nonprofits were seeing their fundraising efforts being canceled and the … [Read more...] about JUST IN: 2021 Cherish The Children Virtual Luncheon Honorees And Keynote Speaker Revealed
CPD’s 2021 Change Is Good Top Coin Collectors And Winning T-Shirt Designers Revealed
With Community Partners of Dallas’ 2021 Change Is Good going virtual yesterday, on monitors and TV screens, the top teams of coin collectors and T-shirt designers were officially announced. However, the coin-collecting winners were surprised the week before just like the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, when CPD President/CEO Paige McDaniel and CPD Development and … [Read more...] about CPD’s 2021 Change Is Good Top Coin Collectors And Winning T-Shirt Designers Revealed
JUST IN: Hamon Charitable Foundation Donates $1M To Support Parkland’s eMCAP Program
Once again the Hamon Charitable Foundation has proved that the legacy of the late philanthropists Nancy and Jake Hamon lives on. It was just announced that the Foundation has donated $1M to support Parkland Health and Hospital System’s Extending Maternal Care After Pregnancy (eMCAP). Launched last October, eMCAP “addresses and reframes the focus of maternal and fetal … [Read more...] about JUST IN: Hamon Charitable Foundation Donates $1M To Support Parkland’s eMCAP Program
Dallas CASA Breaks Past Records With The Highest Of Number Of New Volunteers In 2020
With North Texas thawing out, the good news keeps rolling in. This time it’s from Dallas CASA. Despite the state of the past year’s COVID-19 slam with all its social distancing, masks and virtual relationships, Dallas CASA “recruited the highest number of volunteers to advocate for children in foster care in our 40-year history.” The number of new volunteers was a … [Read more...] about Dallas CASA Breaks Past Records With The Highest Of Number Of New Volunteers In 2020
Dallas Historical Society’s Recently Renovated Hall Of State Sustains Major Water Damage Due To 2021 Blizzard
In recent weeks Dallas Historical Society Board Chair Veletta Lill and Executive Director Karl Chaio have been anticipating the official debut of the $14.4M restoration of the organization’s home base at Fair Park's Hall of State. But last Wednesday afternoon when Texas was deep freezing it, those plans took a turn when “staff was notified by our monitoring company … [Read more...] about Dallas Historical Society’s Recently Renovated Hall Of State Sustains Major Water Damage Due To 2021 Blizzard
I Took On The Texas Grid Wizard In A Heated Battle During The Arctic Blizzard Of 2021
Allow me to tell you a story about how I took on the 2021 Texas Grid Wizard during the blizzard of 2021. It's gonna be a long one, but so was the journey. First let’s lay out the pre-battle setup, when weather predictors were claiming a doom-and-gloom “storm of the century” was headed our way starting Wednesday, February 10. They weren’t kidding. Why, even before the pre- and … [Read more...] about I Took On The Texas Grid Wizard In A Heated Battle During The Arctic Blizzard Of 2021
There Have Been Some Definite Changes To Routines Thanks To The 2021 Snovid
There have definitely been some changes to the normal routine ... wait, North Texans haven't had a normal routine since the pandemic messed things up a year ago. But thanks to the addition of this week's blizzard tagged "snovid" in honor of the merger of COVID-19 and the polar vortex, even pandemic routines are requiring adjustments, including the following: Many … [Read more...] about There Have Been Some Definite Changes To Routines Thanks To The 2021 Snovid