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How Fort Worth’s Will Lourcey Is Ending Hunger and Raising Awareness
Between studying for five AP exams and trying to live a normal teenage lifestyle, the now 16-year-old Will Lourcey helps…
How Wesley Prep Students Are Bringing The Community Together
These kids are making a difference while learning fundamental life lessons.
How Lovepacs is Feeding Kids During School Breaks
It costs around $234,000 to raise a child from birth to age 17, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s…
How 14-Year-Old Truman Wilson Built His Own Chocolate Factory
Step aside Charlie—there’s a new chocolatier in town. Walk into several stores in Dallas and you may come across a…
Life in a Dallas-Fort Worth Food Desert
Families who live in local food deserts travel hours to get fresh, healthy food for their kids.
Richland Collegiate High School Senior Divya Lal is Educating Kids About Pet Care
Moved by the alarming number of stray animals in Dallas, local teen Divya Lal created a pet education program for kids in hopes of inspiring the next generation to take care and speak up for our furry friends.
This Plano Dad Is Helping Kids—and Adults—Be More Grateful
John Israel founded the Mr. Thank You Project to add a little more gratitude to the world, and it’s easy to get involved.
How Plano’s Agape Resource and Assistance Center is Fighting Homelessness
Not every Collin County woman has a white picket fence and the American dream. There’s the single mother to young…
How SMU Professor Candice Bledsoe Is Equipping Minority Students To Succeed in College
A month ago the Dallas Morning News reported that in 2016, only one college in Texas graduated more than 100 black men…
McKinney ISD’s Live Kind Initiative is Designed to Improve School Culture
McKinney ISD Superintendent Rick McDaniel launched the McKinney ISD Lives Kind Initiative (“Live Kind” for short) to make sure his students experience—and extend—kindness daily. The initiative aims to promote compassion throughout the district, from students to faculty members.
Howdy Homemade Ice Cream Serves Up Employment for Adults with Special Needs
Walk into Howdy Homemade on Lovers Lane, and you’ll immediately be greeted by a friendly employee with special needs who is ready to…
Stomping Ground Comedy Theater Launches Improv for Autism Scholarship Program
Now through January 6, the Dallas-based Stomping Ground Comedy Theater is accepting scholarship applications to provide teens on the spectrum in financial need with the therapeutic benefits of humor.
TCU Professor Vanessa Bouché Talks Advocating For Human Rights and Raising Two Girls
A self-proclaimed “activator,” Vanessa Bouché, Ph.D., is not content to sit idly by while injustice ensues. She is a doer…
The “Mistlecrew” Kids of Dallas Are Raising Money to End Hunger
Stella Wrubel is proof that even the youngest of people can have the biggest of hearts. After feeling compelled to…
Young Men’s Service League Inspires Leadership Throughout the Nation
Plano moms and sister-in-laws Pam Rosener and Julie Rosener started a movement in Collin County when they created The Young Men’s Service League 17 years ago. The Roseners…
How Children’s Health is Celebrating Their Patients
Local hospitals in North Texas are providing capes for our real-life superheroes
10 Ways to Help Veterans
Here are ten simple ways to support military families in honor of Veterans Day.
Volunteer Opportunities For Kids in Dallas-Fort Worth
Teach kids that giving is always important—whether it’s giving time, talent or goods—with these 10 local volunteer opportunities.
These Lovejoy High School Seniors Are Running for a Good Cause
Lovejoy is a fitting name for the 5A Collin County high school where three seniors are raising awareness on an…