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A grant to help non-profits access more grants: Houston Endowment awards $3 million to United Way.
Funds will support United Way's Government Funding Initiative which will launch in 2025.
Harris County approves $800K for the construction of Houston’s first Latino Museum
The Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex, or ALMAAHH for short, plans to build a 181,000-square-foot campus on 5.5 acres of land in east Houston by 2030.
Texas schools are hiring more teachers without traditional training. They hope the state will pay to prepare them.
Schools are hiring instructors with different types of backgrounds to deal with critical staff shortages.
Houston’s largest-ever naturalization ceremony swears in more than 3,300 new citizens
3,360 people were sworn in as U.S. citizens during Houston’s largest-ever naturalization ceremony, led by a coalition of county and community organizations.
Houston Endowment Announces 2024 Jones Artist Award Recipients
Nine local artists were selected out of 100 submissions to receive recognition for their work exhibiting themes of time and memory.
How Jesse H. Jones Shaped Houston. And the U.S. Economy.
“Mr. Houston,” was arguably the savior of the American economy. In celebration of his 150th birthday, we reflect on Jones’ life, his legacy and the lessons he has left those of us working to solve the problems of Houston today.
Curating Change: How BIPOC-Led Arts Organizations are Reshaping the Future of Art
Ford Foundation shares insights from grantee BANF, as well as other organizations, about creating a more equitable future for art.
$1.5M Granted To United Way of Greater Houston To Bolster Local Nonprofit Initiative
The grant will help support United Way’s Coffee & Quality, an initiative that began in 2019 as a way to help nonprofits understand how to use data evaluation for continuous quality improvement.
Here’s How Houston Is Fighting Homelessness — and Winning
Homelessness is one of those topics that leaves Americans despairing, but Houston offers hope. Delegations from around the country now troop to Houston to seek lessons, with the mayors of Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver traipsing through this summer.