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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas’ 2024-2025 Blue Impact Grant Application Open for Nonprofits
by Lance Murray | Jan 30, 2024
Last summer, the BCBSTX program awarded nearly $3M in funds to 101 organizations across the Lone Star State—including many in North Texas. The deadline for nonprofits to apply for Blue Impact 2024-2025 grants is Feb. 9. Other impact-aligned community, business, and provider organizations are invited to request sponsorships.
by Lance Murray |
Nov 28, 2023
Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play will bring a series of startup business accelerator programs specific to Frisco's innovation ecosystem—starting with a Sportstech accelerator program focused on human potential and performance.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 18, 2023
Lone Star—a fast-growing provider of leading-edge predictive and prescriptive analytics and Evolved AI for aerospace, defense, and more—said the new office provides better access to more markets and enhanced service to an expanding overseas customer base.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 18, 2023
Integrity Marketing Group has launched the Integrity Foundation to drive what it said is meaningful and sustainable change that improves the health and wellbeing of the people it serves....
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Tamara Stephney
Abounding Prosperity Board Appoints Acting Chief Executive Officer
by Lance Murray | Apr 21, 2023
The board of directors of Abounding Prosperity Inc. has appointed Tamara Stephney as acting chief executive officer following the passing of founder and CEO Kirk D. Myers-Hill.
Abounding Prosperity, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing health, social, and economic disparities within the Black American community, with a specific focus on gay and bisexual men, cisgender women, and their families, according to the CFT website....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 30, 2023
EarthX is seeking innovators and investors to participate in its 2023 EarthX E-Capital Summit April 19-22 at Fair Park in Dallas.
At the summit, early-stage climate tech companies will be able to make pitches for a chance at a cash prize. There will also be discussions on investment and industry trends by leading industry professionals, investors, startups, and policymakers, EarthX said, along with curated and self-selected one-on-one networking meetings between investors, dealmakers, and innovators.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 4, 2022
The Boone Family Foundation dedicated $2.65 million and Lyda Hill Philanthropies committed $2.5 million to help fund the Five Mile Creek Greenbelt, a network of parks and trails the TPL is developing across Oak Cliff and southwest Dallas.
"For 80 years, Dallas has dreamed of a greenbelt along Five Mile Creek to benefit the city’s health, connectivity, and environment," the TPL's board chair said.
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by Patricia Blasquez, Director, Regional Marketing |
Nov 23, 2020
Studies show that companies with high employee engagement are 21 percent more profitable. Here's how Axxess, USAA, Hilti North America, and other companies in the region are improving employee engagement virtually.
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Nancy Flores, EVP/CIO/CTO, McKesson
When a COVID-19 Vaccine Is Ready for a Rollout, McKesson’s Tech Exec Says They’re Prepared to Distribute It
by Alex Edwards | Nov 11, 2020
Six weeks into Nancy Flores' new role at Irving-based McKesson, the pandemic hit. Overnight, she reprioritized—scaling systems, pivoting tech teams, and working in hyperdrive. Now, she's laser focused on the mass effort and investment that goes into vaccine distribution for an entire country.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 20, 2020
Five fellows from United Way of Metropolitan Dallas' Social Innovation Accelerator will present their ideas in health, income, or education for the chance at $235,000 in funding. Tickets are on sale now for the all-virtual event on Oct. 28.
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by Dave Moore |
Oct 12, 2020
"The downside of a pandemic is that it's frightening. The good thing is, sometimes it speeds up things that probably needed to happen. Like telemedicine," Nicole Small, CEO of LH Capital/Lyda Hill Philanthropies, said during the event.
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by Dave Moore |
Oct 6, 2020
Health Wildcatters CEO Hubert Zajicek, Perot Jain Principal Cindy Revol, Lyda Hill Philanthropies CEO Nicole Small, and others will be on a panel about how the health care and tech industries have been innovative during COVID-19 as part of the new Children’s Health program launch on Oct. 8.
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Mary Dickinson [Photo: Chris M. Rogers]
Q+A: Mary Dickinson is Helping Companies Make Their Workplaces Healthier
by Dave Moore | Sep 14, 2020
Perkins + Will's Mary Dickinson talks strategies for reducing COVID in the workplace, such as UV light and HEPA filtration. "We are working with facilities on cleaning protocols to avoid creating a false sense of security," she says.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Sep 14, 2020
When COVID hit, Medcillary wanted to help the medical practices they serve. Now they're offering masks and other protective gear to first-time PPE buyers like the TV and film industry.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 25, 2020
CerSci shareholders could net another $887 million in milestones and tiered royalties. The clinical-stage startup, which launched in 2015, is developing a new generation of non-opioid meds to treat acute and chronic pain.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 20, 2020
OncoNano Medicine, a spinout of University of Texas Southwestern, uses pH as a biomarker to detect metastatic cancer. Its technology, which visualizes a tumor, could be a gamechanger.
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