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North Texas Giving Day Provides A Touching Case Of Irony For Two...
This Thursday’s North Texas Giving Day is tinged with a poignant bit of philanthropic irony. It was in 2015 on North Texas Giving Day that the memorial service for the late Ebby Halliday Acers took...
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Prepare Your Email Box! 2019 North Texas Giving Day Is Here
2019 North Texas Giving Day* Starting at 6 a.m. your email box is gonna be slammed with all types of reminders that it’s North Texas Giving Day. Sure, it’s sorta a pain to get all those emails...
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North Texas Giving Day Noontime Update
North Texas Giving Day Overall Growth* North Texas Giving Day is one third of the way through its marathon march to break its previous record of $48M. At noontime more than 79,000 donations have hauled...
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Robert S. Folsom Leadership Award Patron Party Lauds Mike Rawlings, ‘The Best...
On the evening of Wednesday, September 4, Methodist Health System Foundation President Jim Johnston was talking with former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings at a patron party in the middle of The Library of...
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North Texas Giving Day 6 P.M. Update
2019 North Texas Giving Day* Just six hours are left for 2019 North Texas Giving Day numbers to surge. More than 2,900 organizations are collectively holding their nonprofit breaths that the funds will...
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JUST IN: Fundraiser For Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum Coming To...
Many North Texans have toured the famed Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville over the years. Outside of Tennesseans, after all, Texans comprise the biggest group of visitors to the...
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2019 North Texas Giving Day Final Results
2019 North Texas Giving Day* Susan Swan Smith* Once again North Texas rose to the occasion and showed the world that nonprofits are a priority in these parts. At 11:10 p.m., the North Texas Giving Day...
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Cattle Baron’s Gals Hit The Jackpot With Inaugural Poker Night And NFL...
The Texas Hold ‘Em games wouldn’t be starting until 7:30 p.m. But NFL Hall of Famer Charles Haley was on-site earlier than that for the first-ever Poker Night and NFL Kickoff Game Watch Party at...
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2019 Crystal Charity Ball Platinum Circle Dinner Provided A Feast Of Catching Up
For the first time since temperatures hit the century mark, gents were having to pull out their best ties for an evening event on Thursday, September 5. The occasion was the 2019 Crystal Charity Ball...
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The Talk Was Heartfelt At The Quarterly Meeting Of The Baylor Scott and White...
Attendees at the Tuesday, September 10 quarterly meeting of the Baylor Scott and White Dallas Foundation Advisory Board had some interesting art to look at before the luncheon began. As the likes of...
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Junior League Of Dallas Presents More Than $92K To Benefit DISD Educators And...
For 50 Dallas Independent School District educators, Christmas came early on Tuesday, September 10, at the Junior League of Dallas (JLD) headquarters. As part of JLD’s Grants for Innovative Teaching...
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Crystal Charity Ball Cocktail Party Had Herrera’s Wes Gordon, New NM...
Houston may have been all fired up with the Democrats’ debate, but North Texas was burning with preparations for North Texas Giving Day a week away. And on Thursday, September 12, with a near-full moon...
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JUST IN: Philanthropist Annette Simmons Gives $1M To Help 2019 Crystal...
Is it snowing outside? Must be, because Christmas has come early with legendary philanthropist Annette Simmons’ gifting $1M for the 2019 Crystal Charity Ball’s fundraising for Dallas children’s...
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It Was All Hands On Deck For Hyundai’s Hope On Wheels At Children’s Medical...
It was a coming together of the ages on Monday, September 23, in the Butterfly Atrium of Children’s Medical Center Dallas. There were nine-year-old Bennett Williams with his mom Kirsa Williams on the...
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Daymond John Talks Up Family Gateway — And His Pal Mark Cuban — At The...
Tiffany Cuban was there, while her husband Mark Cuban was said to be unavoidably detained elsewhere. But Mark was in attendance in spirit at least on Tuesday, September 26, when Family Gateway...
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Guests Including Annie Anticipated A Landmark Luncheon At Each Moment Matters...
About 75 guests showed up for the Each Moment Matters Luncheon patron party on the evening of Wednesday, October 2, at the home of Kay and Gene Lunceford. But it’s doubtful that any enjoyed themselves...
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The Magdalen House’s “Leave A Legacy Dinner” Had Laura Bush And A Big...
It was no wonder that The Magdalen House‘s 2019 “Leave A Legacy Dinner” on Thursday, October 3, at The Hall on Dragon was the biggest one in the organization’s history. With former First Lady Laura...
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Dallas Fed Leader Talks Up Education At 10th Annual Aberg Center For Literacy...
Robert S. Kaplan* Lagging literacy rates are a drag on economic productivity, crimping growth in a nation’s GDP, or gross domestic product. That was a main message from Robert S. Kaplan, president and...
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Children’s Super Heroes And Dream Team Are Joined By ER Reimagination...
Children’s Health has had more fantastic superheroes/heroines than a convention of Marvel Comic characters lately. Just last month the Children’s Dream Team (Troy Aikman, Clayton Kershaw, Dirk Nowitzki...
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Les Femmes Du Monde Annual Woman Of The Year Gala Fetes Texas First Lady...
The annual Woman of the Year Gala presented by Les Femmes du Monde usually attracts a pretty decent crowd. Back in 2014, for example, more than 120 guests showed up for the Gala at Harlan Crow‘s...
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