In addition to our traditional annual awards, this year’s event also included a celebration of the close of our Unite Forever campaign, United Way’s first $100 million endowment campaign. Launched seven years ago, the goal of the campaign is to create a financial foundation that will benefit generations of North Texans in the years and decades to come. The $100 million campaign has now been met three years ahead of the 10-year goal.

As Jennifer Sampson, McDermott-Templeton President and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, explained, “On May 12, we celebrated the incredible fact that our annual campaigns over the last three years, along with the Unite Forever endowment campaign, have secured almost $300 million to drive measurable impact in education, income and health. These resources make a lasting difference in the lives of over 1.3 million North Texans every single year.”