Nonprofits and NGOs

The River Wild

Art Speaks Out

DCAC hosts a life-changing art show

Little Boxes

DCAC hosts a life-changing art show

Fight Song

DCAC hosts a life-changing art show

Brownie Points

Buy some art, do some good

The Good Books

Buy some art, do some good

Fast Food Fun Run

Whataburger sponsors a mad Dash

Do The Walk Of Life

Whataburger sponsors a mad Dash

Rolling History

Take a trolley ride in black and white

Winged Wonders

Take a trolley ride in black and white

Bottled Up

Take a trolley ride in black and white

Strange Fruit

See the faces of Winona at the MAC

Magpies Wanted

See the faces of Winona at the MAC

Don't Mess With Texas

See the last frontiers of the Lone Star State

Heart Healthy

See the last frontiers of the Lone Star State

It's a Grind in Deep Ellum is more than just a coffee shop, it's a sanctuary for second chances.

See the last frontiers of the Lone Star State

At Life in Deep Ellum, Help For Iraqi Refugees Tackling Life in America

Megan Feldman Teresa Nguyen and her sister, soldier Ty Reed, are partnering with area non-profits to help Iraqi refugees in the DFW area. ​Earlier this year, Southern Methodist University graduate Teresa Nguyen and her sister, soldier Ty Reed, began importing handicrafts made by female Iraqi artis ... More >>

Why Can't a Nonprofit Do a Downtown Project Cheaper Than a For-Profit Developer?

Brandon ThibodeauxJohn Greenan, founder and executive director of nonprofit Central Dallas Community Development Corp., a subsidiary of Larry James' Central Dallas Ministries​In the paper version of Unfair Park this week I took a longer look at Re:Vision Dallas -- you know, that self-sustaining de ... More >>

Guerilla Arts in Our Midst

Jennifer Conley/www.iliveindallas.comFrom the opening of Guerilla Arts on Haskell Avenue this weekend​Over on Renegade Bus, Joshua Goode brings word of "a major opening this week that could give the Dallas arts community the extra boost it has long needed": Guerilla Arts on Haskell Avenue, in the ... More >>

Fa-La-La-La-La

Jennifer Conley/www.iliveindallas.comFrom the opening of Guerilla Arts on Haskell Avenue this weekend​Over on Renegade Bus, Joshua Goode brings word of "a major opening this week that could give the Dallas arts community the extra boost it has long needed": Guerilla Arts on Haskell Avenue, in the ... More >>

Appetite For Instruction: Tiramisu Latte

Recipe Demonstrated by Brady Cottle of Urban Dog Coffee ​The workplace can be tricky. When you're first hired on at a new job you cross your fingers hoping you won't have to share an office with a bunch of Dwight Schrute wannabes. You say a little pray before you step off the elevator wishing yo ... More >>

The City's Still Trying to Skate on Southern Skates, But HUD Will Have Last Word

​No need to recap the sad history of Southern Skates -- our October 19 item about the beleaguered roller rink on East Ledbetter Drive should bring latecomers up to speed, while old-timers know the song by heart. With that, second verse same as the first: The council's Economic Development Committe ... More >>

Take A Look, It's In A Book

​No need to recap the sad history of Southern Skates -- our October 19 item about the beleaguered roller rink on East Ledbetter Drive should bring latecomers up to speed, while old-timers know the song by heart. With that, second verse same as the first: The council's Economic Development Committe ... More >>

Musical Mercy

​No need to recap the sad history of Southern Skates -- our October 19 item about the beleaguered roller rink on East Ledbetter Drive should bring latecomers up to speed, while old-timers know the song by heart. With that, second verse same as the first: The council's Economic Development Committe ... More >>

DISD's Running Full-Speed to Reform Through New West Dallas "School Zone"

Patrick MichelsChartering a new course: Mayor Tom Leppert and DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa this morning at Dallas City Hall​This morning's mayor's breakfast at City Hall featured a parade of speakers covering the need for big-picture reforms in West Dallas education, the sort of shakeups t ... More >>

Taste The Fashion

Patrick MichelsChartering a new course: Mayor Tom Leppert and DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa this morning at Dallas City Hall​This morning's mayor's breakfast at City Hall featured a parade of speakers covering the need for big-picture reforms in West Dallas education, the sort of shakeups t ... More >>

Local Restaurants Help the Gulf Coast; Mextopia Holds Its Grand Opening This Weekend; Scardello Hosts Top Flight Wines; And More.

Blythe Beck​A few Dallas restaurants are gearing up to help out with Gulf oil spill. Executive chef Blythe Beck at Central 214 starts a new fundraiser today called "We Cook While They Clean." The restaurant will donate $1 from every purchase of the chicken-fried Kobe steak dish to the Gulf R ... More >>

Walk Of Fame

Blythe Beck​A few Dallas restaurants are gearing up to help out with Gulf oil spill. Executive chef Blythe Beck at Central 214 starts a new fundraiser today called "We Cook While They Clean." The restaurant will donate $1 from every purchase of the chicken-fried Kobe steak dish to the Gulf R ... More >>

Tuna Served in Dallas Counts as a Slow Food?

Do edible turtles count as slow food?​An upcoming Dallas fundraiser for Slow Food USA has struck some local food advocates as slightly out-of-step with Slow Food principles. The Slow Food movement, launched by industrial food-opponent Carlo Patrini in 1986, prizes the planet's biodiversity an ... More >>

Texas Folklife Wants to Know
What's on the Lone Star's Menu

​Texas Folklife, a nonprofit organization that got its start documenting folk art across Texas, has launched its first food-focused research project. The group plans to spend the next four years collecting information about eating habits statewide. "Food is the centerpiece of festivals and c ... More >>

Match Game: Tomorrow, Communities Foundation of Texas Brings Back "Giving Day"

​The Unfair Park in-box has been filling up all morning with missives from local nonprofits requesting we visit the Donor Bridge TX website tomorrow -- because yet again Communities Foundation of Texas is going to match donations made between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, otherwise known as "Get Up ... More >>

Into the Woods

​The Unfair Park in-box has been filling up all morning with missives from local nonprofits requesting we visit the Donor Bridge TX website tomorrow -- because yet again Communities Foundation of Texas is going to match donations made between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, otherwise known as "Get Up ... More >>

Dallas Interfaith Holds the Mother of All Church Potlucks

​According to Dallas Area Interfaith's website, the nonprofit's lobbied for more police officers, organized immigration reform marches and helped house evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. But the network of more than 60 faith institutions -- many of which hold regular socials and suppers -- has n ... More >>

O, Chari-tree

​According to Dallas Area Interfaith's website, the nonprofit's lobbied for more police officers, organized immigration reform marches and helped house evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. But the network of more than 60 faith institutions -- many of which hold regular socials and suppers -- has n ... More >>

A National Day of Drinking, Plus a Chili Showdown at Sharky's

The perfect outfit for National Drink Wine Day​There is one holiday that make us so giddy that it's hard for us to get any sleep the night before, and it doesn't involve a fat man in a red suit getting stuck in the chimney. Today is National Drink Wine Day, the one day we can actually claim th ... More >>

Dance Old and New

The perfect outfit for National Drink Wine Day​There is one holiday that make us so giddy that it's hard for us to get any sleep the night before, and it doesn't involve a fat man in a red suit getting stuck in the chimney. Today is National Drink Wine Day, the one day we can actually claim th ... More >>

Irving Shouts Freebirds: A New Location and A Sneak Peek

​Freebirds World Burrito, you know, the other 'FB' you love besides Facebook, is bringing its "hippie-inspired burrito concept that originated in Santa Barbara, CA" to Irving, TX. Jason Daniel, Director of Operations for Freebirds, along with his team, is working hard to bring restaurant #49 ... More >>

Mulligans for Mastiffs

​Freebirds World Burrito, you know, the other 'FB' you love besides Facebook, is bringing its "hippie-inspired burrito concept that originated in Santa Barbara, CA" to Irving, TX. Jason Daniel, Director of Operations for Freebirds, along with his team, is working hard to bring restaurant #49 ... More >>

Oates, Here We Go Magic To Play Upcoming, Three-Day United Way Benefit in Denton

Juan PatinoJohn Oates​I just spent way too much time scouring the Internet for a clip of the classic 1999 Saturday Night Live send-up of Behind The Music where Chris Kattan, playing John Oates, riffs on the fact that, yes, it was very much his idea to add in the handclap parts to Hall & Oates' ... More >>

Slow Your Roll for a $5 Meal That -- Here's the Tricky Part -- Doesn't Involve a Drive-Thru

​ Slow Food USA is a non-profit group that works to bring good, clean and fair food to everyone in the country through grassroots movements. And this Saturday, Sept 17, they're asking you to redefine the value of a meal by participating in a $5 challenge. "... Take back the value meal by ge ... More >>

Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, The Bridge Explain Their Separation to City Council

Photo by Mark GrahamDHA's Mike Faenza at The Bridge​On Friday, in a briefing sent to the city council, the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance and the downtown homeless shelter The Bridge announced they would be separating their leadership, something that became effective Saturday. The Bridge is now it ... More >>

Americans United for Separation of Church and State Wants IRS to Investigate Jeffress, FBD

From First Baptist Dallas's home page​Robert Jeffress endorsed Rick Perry Friday, but it's the gift that keeps on giving. As in: The Americans United for Separation of Church and State has sent a letter today to the Internal Revenue Service insisting that the First Baptist Dallas pastor's endorsem ... More >>

Poof! A Rundown South Dallas Building Crumbles, Making Way For a Habitat Home.

Photos by Leslie MinoraThe "after" shot, as the former Pete's Sandwich Shop on Baldwin near Fair Park bit the dust. Jump for the "just-before."​As a bulldozer chipped away at the sides of a hideously blighted cinder-block building in South Dallas this morning -- forward, reverse, forward, reverse ... More >>

The Brief and Wondrous Lives of Teach for America Teachers in DISD

Woodrow principal Kyle Richardson lost four TFA-trained teachers -- and went and hired three more.​Teach for America, the nonprofit teacher pipeline founded by Park Cities native Wendy Kopp, has made a couple of appearances in the Morning News lately, first in a news story and then an editoria ... More >>

Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston to Take the Reins at the Human Rights Initiative

Bill Holston​There's no need to introduce Bill Holston -- attorney, KERA contributor, nature-trekker -- to longtime Friends of Unfair Park; he's one of the good ones, and has been for a long, long while. But Bill's about to disappear from these virtual pages, at least for a little while; he write ... More >>

Since You Gotta Spend Money to Make It, City Looks Outside For Help Growing Small Biz

​Far as Dallas City Hall's concerned, it's hard out there for a small start-up, which is why it's spent years loaning and granting money to businesses via, say, the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund and the Southern Dallas Development Corporation, both of which have suffered their share of sputter ... More >>

Cafe Momentum, a Restaurant by At-Risk Kids, Keeps Popping Up and May Soon Settle Down

Chad Houser, Janice Provost, Abraham Salum and Al Havens at a recent pop-up.​Chad Houser and Janice Provost are gearing up again. The faces behind the non-profit organization Cafe Momentum are preparing to announce their next pop-up dinner, to be held in February at Bolsa Mercado. The event w ... More >>

Dallas City Hall Wants to Create Nonprofit to Help Uplift Education Sell Bonds for Expansion

​Speaking of Uplift Education and its planned expansion into Deep Ellum ...There's an intriguing item that just appeared on the Dallas City Council's consent addendum for next week's meeting, posted here. According to the doc, the city wants to create a nonprofit called the City of Dallas Educatio ... More >>

Mardi Gras Oak Cliff 2012 Promises a Little Workout and Lots of Gluttony

MardiGrasOakCliff.com​With the Super Bowl out of the way, our attention now turns to the next excuse to eat, drink and be gluttonous: Mardi Gras. The non-profit organization Go Oak Cliff is hosting the third annual Mardi Gras Oak Cliff February 18 and 19 with several different events planned ... More >>