New DFW Non-Profit Hopes To Make A Difference In People's Lives Through Crowdfunding
True to the meaning of the season, one man started the non-profit Many Strands to help improve people's lives.
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True to the meaning of the season, one man started the non-profit Many Strands to help improve people's lives.
Program manager Kamel Wesley said after speaking with the fire marshal, it appears the fire was intentionally set.
Whether coming from the battlefield or the football field, the struggles are similar. MVP gives both athletes and veterans back that sense of team.
Soldiers' Angels Holiday Adopt-A-Family program matches businesses, organizations, and individuals with qualified military and veteran families who could use some help.
Helping Hands Ministry Health is preparing to help Afghan refugees who will be arriving in Dallas' Vickery Meadows neighborhood.
SeMarion Humphrey went through the unimaginable last school year as the brave middle school student that came forward after his classmates bullied him.
The nonprofit founded by HEB Chairman Charles Butt is an educational leadership institute that supports student achievement, by first helping districts grow great leaders-- from central staff to principals.
Just like businesses, non-profits have also been struggling amid the pandemic. But the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center is finding hope in an unusual place… longhorns in couture.
Ronald McDonald House Dallas is celebrating 40 years of providing a home away from home for families of children who are hospitalized.
"The plan can be summed up quite simply: We are DUMPING New York, and we are pursuing plans to reincorporate the NRA in Texas," said the NRA's Wayne LaPierre.
The numbers show people in 75211, which covers Cockrell Hill and parts of Oak Cliff, are the most vulnerable to the virus.
The Kindness Warriors decided since no visitors are allowed into the senior living facilities this year, they would make sure every resident would get a gift of new pajamas.
Harmony CDC has received funding from the CARES Act and has the capability of helping Dallas renters by covering up to two months of rent.
When COVID-19 prevented a North Texas nonprofit for abused children, Jonathan's Place, from receiving their normal Christmas celebrations, a Fort Worth man stepped in.
The North Texas Community Table in North Richland Hills needs a new space by the end of the month as the church they're based inside is closing in part due to COVID-19.
One week after the city of Arlington was hit by an EF-2 tornado, nonprofit Arlington Charities finally got their power back on.
Last year, the Careity Foundation supported 7,600 people in Tarrant, Johnson and Parker counties as they battled cancer.
"She's passionate, spunky, brilliant," said Sally Atiyeh as she described her daughter, Atiyeh Chatmon. "She has always been mommy's mini twin and daddy's little girl."
"The breadth of this is like nothing we've seen before," said Suzanne Malone, the Clinical Director at My Health My Resources of Tarrant County.
For the first time ever, the shelter's live release rate is over 90%.
A small fundraiser started by a pair of Dallas educators with a passion for sneakers has grown into a nonprofit now preparing to provide hundreds of Dallas area students with new shoes.
"We realize there's a huge, hidden crisis," said Hailly Korman, a senior associate partner at Bellwether Education Partners, the nonprofit organization that published the report.
North Texas Giving Day is underway, giving the public another opportunity to give back to non-profits hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
"We're having to quarantine and social distance and so you have that time to sit there and just think and remember triggers and have urges to go use," said a former heroin addict.
The Arlington Life Shelter has received a technological boost for the thousands of homeless men, women and children they assist thanks to the Dallas Mavericks.
