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Science & Discovery · The Big Story

North Texas Still Has a Use for Your Old Ham Radio

If you have old ham gear in North Texas, the best move is not dropping it at a thrift store and hoping for the best. McKinney Amateur Radio Club is the rare local organization where dusty radios can feed license training, technical workshops, repeater infrastructure, and real emergency-readiness practice.

Community Development

Your Work Clothes Still Have 1 More Job in Dallas

Your old blazer can do better than a generic donation bin. Dress for Success Dallas turns professional clothing into something much more useful: a volunteer-powered path through suiting, career support, and job training.

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Health & Medical

Narcan Got the Attention in Dallas. CARE Handles the Rest.

CARE-Dallas distributed 3,252 Narcan doses in 2025, but the sharper story starts after the handoff. This Dallas nonprofit pairs harm reduction with student outreach, SoberU, and plain-language substance-use education that actually sticks.

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Justice & Equity

Dallas Sexual Violence Hotline Served 2,289 Clients

The impressive thing about Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center is not that it has a hotline. It’s that the hotline opens into an actual chain of care—walk-in advocacy, hospital accompaniment, counseling, legal support, and prevention work across Dallas County and North Texas.

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Dallas Has 4 Smarter Places to Donate Humanitarian Aid

A notebook in Peru, a hygiene kit in a conflict zone, a Palestine relief fund, a vetted crisis-giving platform: they all count as humanitarian aid, but they do very different jobs. These four Dallas-area nonprofits are worth your attention because each occupies a distinct lane—and that makes giving smarter.

Deep Dive

Rent Help Runs Out. Dallas County Has Eviction Court Backup.

Most housing donors picture rent relief first. Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center makes the sharper case: when an eviction filing lands, the intervention that can actually keep a family housed is often a lawyer—and in 2024 the group provided full representation to 5,175 clients.