One in six households in Texas faces hunger. The Vernon Wells Perfect 10 Charity wants to make sure Arlington children do not. With help from the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation, Perfect 10 will provide backpacks full of healthy snacks this year to students at Peach Elementary School in Arlington.“Our mission is to feed…
James Mihills has noticed a shift in the city’s homeless population. During the six years he has served on the Board of Directors for the Arlington Life Shelter, he has watched as more families sought help. Today, about half of the shelter’s clients are families.“The face of homelessness has changed. Many…
A unique partnership is taking root in Arlington. The Arlington school district and Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington will build an innovative after-school center in the new Peach Elementary School, slated to open in August 2016 on Baird Farm Road with help from the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation. The Arlington Tomorrow Foundation…
When her husband died of esophageal cancer at age 38, Renea Garcia wanted to help her young sons grieve. But her oldest boy, Angel, then 5, would shrug his shoulders or get quiet when he felt sad or lonely. Just 2 years old, Andre was still too young to understand. A hospital…
Levitt Pavilion is getting a sleek upgrade, courtesy of the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation. The much-loved Arlington concert venue recently received a $300,000 grant from the foundation to purchase and install a jumbo screen and camera equipment. Similar to what it seen in ballparks and sports stadiums, the high-resolution screen will broadcast concerts,…
More than a thousand people celebrated North Texas Giving Day in the American Dream City at the Arlington Gives! Rally held on September 17 at the Levitt Pavilion, where the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation awarded $31,000 in bonus grants to qualified Arlington-based nonprofits in attendance. The Foundation awarded of $50,000 to organizations before…
It will feel like summer in Paris when Arlington Museum of Art blooms with the “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Post Impressionists,” an exhibit featuring nearly 200 prints, drawings and posters from avant-garde Post-Impressionist artists. The exhibit runs May 16-August 16, 2015. Visit the Arlington Museum of Art website for hours, tickets prices, and other…
Mansfield Independent School District (MISD) students Briana Yancy and Crystal Chambliss are dedicated to making a difference in the American Dream City. Between school, studying and active lifestyles, both of these young ladies provide six hours of service to the Animal Services Center (ASC) each week through a new internship…
More than 150 dancers from across North Texas and beyond gathered in Arlington to learn from some of the country’s top choreographers and instructors. Dance Theatre of Arlington, a nonprofit organization created by Miss Persis Studio, offered the workshop, Dance!Texas, in February at the University of Texas at Arlington. Students beginning…
A robot guides a patient down a hallway, while another fills a bathtub with water. A third robot climbs a set of stairs to deliver medicine to a bedridden patient. Thanks to the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation, school-aged children of Arlington are learning to build and program robots capable of completing those…
