

Excellence by Design Education Receives $10,000 from Kimberly Smith, Atmos Energy representative. This generous donation will help us ensure that families in North Texas – Dallas metroplex have a holiday meal for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. “Giving is not just about donating, it’s about MAKING A DIFFERENCE”! We can’t do this without you. Your donation helps us to continue the important lifesaving work we do. Again, thank you for your contribution to our organization. Our work is essential, and donations are how our work is made possible. THANK YOU ATMOS ENERGY!

Excellence by Design Education Center (EDEC), a leading educational non-profit organization in the field of Education, received a $15,00.00 grant from Communities Foundation OF Texas in July. The endowed grant will help fund EDEC’s Creative Comic Studio “Art With An Academic Twist” program
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Dallas, Texas, July 10, 2023– Excellence by Design Education Center (EDEC), a leading educational non-profit organization in the field of Education, received a $15,00.00 grant from Community Foundation Of Texas in July. The endowed grant will help fund EDEC’s Creative Comic Studio “Art With An Academic Twist” program
The Comics Art studio allows youth to go from aspiring artists to published cartoon artists, comic book writers, webtoons artists/animators, and graphic novelists. are guided by local professional artists, cartoonists, animators, and webtoon developers.
Excellence by Design Education Center is an organization that provides needed educational, life skills, and social development benefits that impact the lives of disadvantaged and underserved youths in our communities. B. Howard
About Communities Foundation of Texas
With the goal of building thriving communities for all, Communities Foundation of Texas (CFT) works locally and across the state through a variety of charitable funds and strategic initiatives. The public foundation professionally manages 1,000 charitable funds for individuals, families, companies and nonprofits in addition to powering several key initiatives such as W. W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at CFT, Educate Texas at CFT and CFT’s North Texas Giving Day. CFT has awarded more than $1.9 billion in grants since its founding in 1953. Learn more at cftexas.org. Follow us on Facebook (facebook.com/CFTexas), Twitter (twitter.com/GiveWisely) or Instagram (instagram.com/communitiesfoundationoftexas
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Dallas, Texas, March 2021 – Excellence by Design Education Center, a leading educational non-profit organization} in the field of Education, received a $5,500.00 grant on March 7, 2023. The Community Foundation of Texas (CFT) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies endowed the grant for the purpose of building our capacity to fundraise, which will help us continue fulfilling our mission and to enhance our ability to impact the communities we serve positively.
“Building capacity will help us continue to meet our mission by providing more wraparound services to meet our client’s educational, social, cultural, and economic needs so that we can make an even bigger impact in closing equity and opportunity gaps in under-championed communities”.
We extend our gratitude and thanks to Communities Foundation of Texas and Lyda Hill Philanthropies for helping us to transform minds and change lives and communities.
