NEW REPORT SHOWS NONPROFIT SECTOR A MAJOR FORCE FOR ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NORTH TEXAS Number of Nonprofits in North Texas Up Almost 9,000 in 2011 from 2009
DALLAS, TX (December 18, 2012) – The Center for...
Beaumont, TX — The Beaumont Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Excellence in Education Awards as part of its ongoing commitment to support education. The Awards were created to celebrate and recognize superior contributions...
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More Texas children with severe mental health needs receive mental health care in a juvenile detention facility, a school special education program, foster care, or when a parent relinquishes custody to the Texas...
Fort Smith, Ark. —On Monday, The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith breaks ground on a brand new $15.5 million facility for the visual arts program. The new facility will house graphic design laboratories, space for photography, painting,...
The 2014 Mid-year Meeting session focused on the legalization of marijuana is the topic of this Grantmakers in Health blog, authored by Philanthropy Southwest Consultant Christie McElhinney.
The Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy is now accepting applications for the 2014 cohort. The Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy is a long-term initiative to expand the number of Arizonans who are committed to state-level public service and...
A severe storm system swept across the Midwest and South on April 27-29, 2014, with heavy rains, hail and tornadoes, causing damage in at least 10 states. At least 31 people were killed by tornadoes in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Tennessee,...
The Boettcher Foundation Board of Trustees released the names of the seven early-career scientists selected for the fifth class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program. The announcement was made by April Giles,...
Several San Antonio-area organizations are joining forces to tackle childhood obesity.
The Children's Hospital of San Antonio, H-E-B, The Culinary Institute of America San Antonio and Goldsbury Foundation announced their initiative this...
On April 30, the Mary E. Bivins Foundation awarded $145,000 in scholarships to 21 area students. The scholarships are granted to students who meet the program criteria and are seeking a degree that prepares them to preach the Christian religion....
Twenty-eight organizations have received $714,000 in the last eighteen months from the Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation of Dallas to provide critical services in Arkansas communities. The King Foundation provides grants in the areas of...
Through a more than $1.3 million donation, ORIX Foundation (Dallas) has given money to 82 North Texas nonprofits in an effort to help children at risk, families in poverty and veterans.
Inasmuch Foundation (Oklahoma CIty, OK) recently awarded $5.79 million in grants to 28 organizations, all serving Oklahoma communities. The grants include more than $1 million to KIPP Reach to expand and grow a five-school model serving over 2,500 students per year. Another $500,000 was awarded to the Kiwanis Special Activities Fund to replace the old Carver Mark Twain Head Start building with a birth-to-school continuum campus next door to the newly renovated Mark Twain Elementary.