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...
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), speaking April 1 at the annual member meeting of the National Council of Nonprofits, made his clearest statement of support for charitable giving tax incentives and for the work of charitable...
San Angelo, Texas - Last week, the San Angelo Health Foundation announced grant Awards totaling $1,269,788. Six area non-profit organizations were selected to receive project funding:
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council for the Concho Valley $1...
Denver, CO – The Conference of Southwest Foundations, the oldest membership association for grantmakers in the U.S., today announced the organization is now Philanthropy Southwest. The 65-year-old association is made up of more than 200 member...
The Texas Bar Foundation has announced that Brian Shannon, the Charles B. “Tex” Thornton Professor of Law at the Texas Tech School of Law, along with Dr. Victor R. Scarano, a psychiatrist and attorney in Houston, will receive the 2014 Outstanding...
April 04, 2014
Video
From the Gridiron to Granting Wishes: 2014 Mid-year Plenary Speaker Jeremy Bloom
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...
April 16, 2014
Presentation
Toward a Common Good: Maximizing Economic Opportunity, Access to Education, and the Contributions of New Americans in Texas
The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing last week to discuss the perennial issue of the tax extenders, the temporary tax provisions that expire year after year and are usually renewed. However, dozens of provisions that expired at the...
Tax reform has been a hot topic in Congress over the past year, and seemingly everything is on the table, including nonprofits' activities. Even with the recent release of a formal legislative proposal, real progress on a bill seems unlikely in...
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,...
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...
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...
July 02, 2014
Guide
Cracking the Network Code: Impact through Empowerment
The Kronkosky Charitable Foundation announced today that J. Tullos Wells has been named managing director of the Foundation. Wells succeeds Palmer Moe who retired in May.
September 30, 2014
Inside Outside Storytelling: Strong Leaders, Strong Teams