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JUST IN: Katy And Kyle Miller Gift $5M To Create Courtyard For SMU Cox School
If it’s Friday, it must be SMU good news day. The latest Mustang blast is a $5M gift to the university’s Edwin L. Cox School of Business from Katy A. and Kyle D. Miller. The monies will be used to...
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DSA Board Salutes DSO CEO President/CEO Kim Noltemy’s Leadership With A $7.5M...
Kim Noltemy (File photo) When Kim Noltemy arrived in North Texas to head up the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in January 2018, the DSO had had a rough few years beforehand. Bill Lively had resigned as CEO...
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Dallas Mavericks’ Mavs Foundation Scores A $1M Commitment For Area Non-Profits
Mavs Foundation* The Dallas Mavericks’ Mavs Foundation is kicking off the season of giving with a big commitment to area non-profits. According to Mavs Foundation President Katie Edwards, “We are...
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Lyda Hill Celebrates VolunteerNow’s 50th Anniversary With A $250K Challenge...
It was in 1971 that four prominent community volunteers — Annette Strauss, Mitch Jericho, Jan Sanders and Helen Boothman — recognized the power of and need for volunteers and started a grassroots...
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Dallas Arboretum Honors Presidential Daughter Luci Baines Johnson With Its...
Luci Baines Johnson If a person’s character can be glimpsed in an instant with the smallest of gestures, some attendees at a Dallas Arboretum event recognizing Luci Baines Johnson were treated to a...
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MySweetToyDrive: United To Learn
Namratha and Marisol Rodriquez* According to United To Learn Literacy Director Marisol Rodriquez, “As United to Learn’s Director of Literacy, I know that fostering a love of reading through literacy...
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Park Place Dealerships’“Season Of Giving” Rewards 24 Area Non-Profits With...
Park Place Dealerships’ “Season Of Giving”* Beating Santa to the gift-giving, Park Place Dealerships announced the area non-profits that were selected to receive $100,000 in grants for its Season Of...
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JUST IN: ExxonMobil Chairman’s Gift Of $50,000 Is Presented To Dallas CASA To...
This morning Ryan Shultz revealed what some might describe as a double life. Since 2015 she has been with ExxonMobil as its manager of corporate digital communications and content strategy. But before...
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A Christmas Message For Celebration And Consideration
MySweetCharity* Hopefully, you’re up before the household’s munchkins discover that Santa and his flighty reindeer did a hit and run. As gift wrap and ribbons are spewed around the tree that had been...
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The Passings Of 2021 North Texas Inspirations
As the new year approaches, this post is the one that conjures up unique senses of grief for whom has been lost and gratitude for their being a part of North Texas. Some people were those that we’ve...
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JUST IN: Multi-Award Winning Singer/Songwriter Michael Bolton To Keynote 2022...
Michael Bolton* Michael Bolton is known for many things — award-winning singer/songwriter/collaborator, actor, producer and tabloid fodder due to his relationship with “Desperate Housewives” star...
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2021 Crystal Charity Ball Brought “Peace, Love, London” Across The Pond For...
When the 2020 Crystal Charity Ball’s “Majestic Britannia” had to be canceled due to COVID three months out, 2021 CCB Chair Leslie Diers did the pandemic pivot. With her love of music, and realizing...
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Bum Bright Family’s Legacy Of Giving Continues With A $7.5M Gift For...
Bum Bright* When the late Bum Bright’s name comes up in conversation, most folks immediately think of his tenure as “owner” of the Dallas Cowboys (1984 to 1989). But for those who remember the days...
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JUST IN: Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott Gifts Three Area Communities In...
Despite the very cold shoulder that Winter Storm Landon has provided North Texas, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has warmed three Communities In Schools affiliates (Dallas, North Texas and Tarrant...
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From “Tiniest Texans” To Jim Hinton’s Closing Remarks Filled Baylor Scott And...
Some may have thought the Baylor Scott and White Dallas Foundation went a little overboard by going ahead and offering three choices its winter quarterly meeting on Tuesday, December 7. But with the...
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JUST IN: Klyde Warren Park Will Have Perot Power Chairing Its 2022...
After gifting Klyde Warren Park with $5M in December to name its children’s park after Park Co-Founders Sheila and Jody Grant, the Perot Family has stepped up again to support the Park. Nancy Perot and...
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Susie And John Adams Gift $1M For Children’s Christopher J. Durovich...
Too often it’s the people behind the scenes who are taken for granted. For instance, when one thinks of the folks in hospitals and healthcare systems, the first faces that come to mind are the doctors,...
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BSW Dallas Foundation Quarterly Meeting Was A Triple-Header With Pete...
The Baylor Scott And White Dallas Foundation’s first quarterly meeting of 2022 was a virtual triple header on Tuesday, February 8. In addition to a get-to-know-you chat with former Baylor Scott And...
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JUST IN: Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott Gifts Unrestricted $9M To Dallas Area...
Newlywed MacKenzie Scott has been on a spending spree. As Forbes put it, she “is giving away her $46 billion fortune faster than anyone in history.” Why last year she donated $2.74 billion to 286...
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JUST IN: Children’s Health To Launch $27M Initiative To Deal With Pediatric...
Scientists and medical experts worldwide rallied together to come up with a vaccination — or two or three — to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The result was a dramatic reduction in cases and deaths over...
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