Heart House receives $35,000 Texas Educational Grant from The Liberty Mutual Foundation
Heart House today announces a grant award from The Liberty Mutual Foundation as part of their Texas Educational Grant initiative, for the agency’s year-long afterschool and summer program serving 240 refugee children of the Vickery Meadow neighborhood of Dallas. “I’m so encouraged by […]
Heart House Announces Partnership with CLOZTALK
Heart House is now a nonprofit partner of CLOZTALK, a company that designs and sells cause-based apparel to raise awareness and funds for positive causes that matter. Their mission is to get people talking to each other, face-to-face, about important issues that affect our […]
Heart House CEO Finalist in 2019 D CEO’s Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards
Heart House CEO, Lenita Dunlap, selected as a finalist in D CEO’s Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards 2019 in the category of Leadership Excellence. Each year D CEO and Communities Foundation of Texas honor professionals and organizations in the nonprofit sector that push to […]
Dallas Afterschool Certifies Heart House Sites
As of July 2019 all of the Heart House sites are Dallas Afterschool Certified. Dallas Afterschool (DAS) is the pre-eminent leader and change agent for the after-school movement within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. All Heart House sites that have been submitted for Dallas Afterschool […]
Heart House and Matchfire partnership is featured in Dallas Innovates of DMagazine
Heart House and Matchfire were recently featured in DMagazine following the two partnering to rebrand the organization in an effort to amplify Heart House’s mission of “empowering refugee children to thrive in their new home country.” The organization’s new image is as colorful and […]
Young Entrepreneurs from Heart House Participate in DFW Lemonade Day
Each year Heart House students participate in an experimental learning program called Lemonade Day. The program teaches kids how to start, own and operated their own business. “The foremost objective of Lemonade Day is to empower youth to take ownership of their lives and […]
Heart House First-Ever VIP Fundraiser
Heart House gathers its closest supporters for its first-ever VIP fundraiser complete with world-class cocktails, global DJ, and silent auction. June 20, 2019 By day, Heart House supporters are finance executives, business owners, counselors, marketing directors, artists, teachers, and powerful soccer moms. By night, […]
You don’t need to be a therapist to support a child’s mental health
Can just anyone support a child’s mental health? This is a common question that comes up around Heart House, an afterschool program serving the mental health needs of refugee children in Dallas. As a licensed counselor, these interactions with volunteer staff are not unexpected […]
Heart House sits down with DFW Child Magazine
This May, Heart House sat down with DFW Child Magazine to shine a spotlight on our work in Vickery Meadow. Dallas Mom Soudary Kittivong-Greenbaum sat with DFW Child to discuss the importance of being successful as a kid and how Heart House prepares refugee […]
