Girl Scouts Of Northeast Texas’ Cookie Power Sale-Athon Kicks Off Friday
Girl Scout Cookies* Put the diets on hold because the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas are kicking off their annual cookie-thon. Starting Friday, January 12, the GSNETX Cookie Sale will have Thin Mints,...
View ArticleA Passing: Rita Crocker Bass Clements
Rita Clements (File photo) Whenever Rita Crocker Bass Clements took on a task, she surpassed the rule of the day. Whether it was cutting cattle on a ranch, raising four children, chairing North Texas’...
View ArticleFamily Gateway’s New Board Of Directors And Chairman Announced
Stephen Hipp* Family Gateway has seven new folks joining its board of directors, as well as a new chairman of the board. Serving in the leadership role for the organization will be Goldman Sachs...
View ArticlePhilanthropists Lisa And Kenny Troutt To Serve As Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
Lisa and Kenny Troutt (File photo) Dallas Symphony Orchestra League’s Presentation Ball Chair Lori Routh has announced that philanthropists Lisa and Kenny Troutt will serve as the honorary co-chairs...
View ArticleNorth Texas Food Bank’s Empty Bowls Is Moving To New Digs In March
Change is afoot at the North Texas Food Bank. In the past NTFB’s Empty Bowls had shivering souls heading to the Meyerson for the annual soup-athon. Empty Bowls (File photo) The NTFB-ers have waved...
View ArticleA Passing: Peter Pauls Stewart
The early ’60s were a turning point in Dallas. While many may immediately think of the death of President John F. Kennedy, there were other developments taking place around that time that made the...
View ArticleAware Affair Co-Chairs Jolie Humphrey And Josey Kennington Held The Launch...
Leading up to the Aware Affair on Friday, April 13, at The Statler, Co-Chairs Jolie Humphrey and Josey Kennington are setting quite a standard. Just for their launch party on Monday, December 4, they...
View ArticleJUST IN: Double Academy Award Winner/Clothing Designer Hilary Swank To...
DFW International Airport is going to be celebrity filled this spring thanks to the area nonprofits with a dazzling array of speakers. Genesis Women’s Shelter and Support is celebrating its 25th Annual...
View ArticleJUST IN: 12th Annual Chick Lit Luncheon Details Including “Chick Flick”...
Perhaps those Chick Lit-ters should be renamed Tricky Chick Lits. For the past couple of years, they’ve moved their annual Community Partners of Dallas fundraising luncheon from the tried-and-true...
View ArticleJUST IN: Nancy And Richard Rogers And Melody And Rick Rogers Join St. V-Day...
St. Valentine’s Day Luncheon and Fashion Show Co-Chairs Roz Colombo and Nancy Gopez and their Advisory Chair Heather Randall impressed a lot of folks with their plans and people for the Leukemia and...
View ArticleJUST IN: 2018 Dallas Symphony Gala Plans Announced Including A Diminutive...
Bob and Lisa Segert* And the news keeps rolling in! Despite the chilly weather, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra staff has been in overdrive. In addition to getting ready for new Dallas Symphony...
View ArticleKatie Harris Robbins To Head Up Hoblitzelle Foundation, Gary Holland Joins...
Heading up the prestigious Hoblitzelle Foundation has become a generational responsibility for the late Lynn Harris family. For 30 years, Lynn was philanthropist Karl Hoblitzelle’s secretary and...
View ArticleJUST IN: LaunchAbility And My Possibilities Merge Thanks To Assistance From...
There’s been a lot of chatter about groups with similar goals and programs partnering up. As a result, the Better Together Fund was created on June 7, 2017, to assist in nonprofits coming together. My...
View ArticleJUST IN: Jeff Smith To Chair Texas Scottish Rite Hospital For Children’s...
Shelby Wagner and Niven Morgan Jeff Smith* Spring isn’t even here and already fall plans are being announced. On the hooves of Niven Morgan’s and Shelby Wagner’s co-chairing the 2017 Treasure Street...
View ArticleRetired Texas Instruments Executive VP David Martin To Head Up Jubilee Park...
With the newest year underway, the announcements of events and leaderships just keep streaming in. The latest is from Jubilee Park And Community Center. David Martin* Heading up the 2018 board of...
View ArticleBaylor Health Care System Foundation Meeting Gets To The Heart Of The Matter
You might say the Tuesday, December 12, meeting of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation was an affair of the heart. That’s because the featured speakers were Dr. Shelley A. Hall—chief of transplant...
View ArticleJUST IN: Gail And Gerald Turner To Serve As Park Cities Historic And...
More news has been reported about the upcoming Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society’s Taste • Tour • Explore series that will include PCHPS Distinguished Speaker Luncheon featuring Jenna Bush...
View ArticleJUST IN: Dallas Women’s Foundation’s Leadership Forum And Awards Dinner...
Plans for Dallas Women’s Foundation‘s 2018 Maura Women Helping Women and Young Leadership Forum And Awards Dinner have just been announced. Co-Chairing the annual dinner on Thursday, April 19, at the...
View ArticleMySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: Harold C. Simmons Memorial Highway...
Morgan Meyer, Don Huffines, Kent Hance and Greg Abbott In these parts the importance of events can’t be judged by the number of guests. Such was the case on the afternoon of Friday, January 12, at...
View ArticleFamily, Friends And Officials Celebrate The Harold C. Simmons Memorial...
There was a chill in the air and the forecast of light snow in the days ahead. But neither that nor Annette Simmons‘ in-recovery cough was going to prevent a special announcement from being made...
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