Dallas ISD’s annual employee giving campaign, in collaboration with the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and benefiting the Dallas Education Foundation, started this week with a goal of raising $150,000. The district’s charity of choice, the Dallas Education Foundation, is the philanthropic arm of Dallas ISD, and in 2020 provided over $3 million in funding that supported grants for teachers, campus needs, programming, technology, and project Dream Big—use code E108456 to give to the DEF. If every employee gives at least $10, Dallas ISD will reach the $150,000 giving goal by the Dec. 17 deadline. You can also wear jeans…

Isabelle and Katherine Adams are not your average high school students. These sisters, a senior and a sophomore, respectively, at School for the Talented and Gifted, are co-CEOs of their own nonprofit, co-authors of their own book, and now co-recipients–the first teenagers ever–of the Presidential Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award.  Isabelle and Katherine started their nonprofit, Paper for Water, in 2011 at just eight and five years old when they learned that girls in developing countries often did not go to school because they hauled water all day and that a child died every 15 seconds from unclean water. Wanting…