Business Impact Stories

A Passion for Caring

PGA of America is in good company with CFT for Business

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CFT has seen firsthand that companies that do good, do better. CFT for Business connects companies with resources and expertise to foster and grow cultures of good corporate citizenship.

Shields Legal Group Works for Higher

by Kathy Hoke

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When Shields Legal Group (SLG) began partnering with CFT, it was the start of a mutually beneficial relationship. CFT provided the structure that our law firm needed to start giving back to the community. As Jim Shields, SLG’s founder and CEO remarked, “Our 15 employees had the heartfelt desire to...

Engaging Employees for Good

We're growing employee engagement and volunteer programs one business at a time.

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“We value the tremendous expertise of the CFT4B team in growing our program, sharing best practices and connecting us to opportunities we didn’t even know existed. In addition to providing custom volunteer projects, they helped us create an engaging volunteer fair and a nonprofit board leadership training program for employees...”

Where Giving Serves

RHSB: CFT Business Fund Holder and Freedom Day Volunteers

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“CFT is a valuable and strategic partner that helps RHSB make a meaningful impact and contribution to the community where we live, work and raise our families.” — Doug Jones, Senior Vice President and Principal at RHSB

Make the Most of Your Membership

Leverage all the benefits your Business Impact Network membership offers!

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Over the years, the Business team has added features to our programs that only some of our members are using. We’re sharing this information with the hope that every Business Impact Network member will leverage all the benefits their membership offers!

Inspiring Giving From Generation to Generation

The Fallen Family Fund at CFT supports Freedom Day

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“It’s been the greatest gift,” said Nancy. “I feel like what granddad gave us was an opportunity – an opportunity to make a difference and to explore within ourselves something he had already figured out: lifting up the people around you is what matters most. He knew that the fund could bring good to others but also to us as we practiced generosity together.”

1st Global Remembers 9/11 through Freedom Day

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In September, 1st Global volunteers participated in community service projects for Freedom Day 2018 through Communities Foundation of Texas for Business (CFT4B).

Reflecting Your Team in Your Philanthropy

Texas Health Resources Partners with CFT4B to Find Projects That Represent Its Employees

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“We want our employees to see themselves in our community service projects,” was the vision that Felicia Williams, program director of Community Affairs at Texas Health Resources shared with CFT4B’s Sejal Desai.

A Year of Service

by Michelle Grose

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Throughout 2018, 1st Global continued to live out one of the company’s guiding principles: aspiring to servant leadership through community outreach and volunteerism. Supported by a now three-year partnership with Communities Foundation of Texas for Business, 1st Global has annually increased its social responsibility efforts in the Dallas community.

Bioworld Partners with CFT for Business

Bioworld has partnered with CFT4B to increase employee engagement through volunteerism and charitable giving since 2015

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With more than 350 employees in the U.S., Bioworld has partnered with CFT for Business (CFT4B) to increase employee engagement through volunteerism and charitable giving since 2015. “We have a charitable giving budget as a company, and partnering with CFT for Business helps us focus those dollars and really make a difference,” said Bioworld employee Dawn Hicks.

Istation Supports Educators and Empowers Kids

CFT4B Partner Spotlight

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To live its tagline, “Supporting educators. Empowering kids. Changing lives.,” Istation celebrated its 20th anniversary last November through community service on its first annual “Day of Giving"...

Freedom Day Bonds Businesses

17th annual volunteer day honors 9/11 through joint service

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Honoring the lives lost and forever changed on 9/11/01, CFT for Business presented its 17th annual Freedom Day, a community service event last September that was part of CFT’s North Texas Giving Day. In recognition of the courage and bravery of the men and women who fight for our freedom and those first responders who protect us, we dedicated this day of service to them by supporting local organizations that provide essential services to veterans, first responders and their families.

Partnering with local companies like NETSCOUT to help business philanthropy thrive

When NETSCOUT needed a partner to implement and launch their local charitable grant program, they turned to Communities Foundation of Texas.

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This past fall, NETSCOUT established a charitable fund known as a business-advised fund with CFT. Next, CFT helped NETSCOUT engage their employees in learning how nonprofits are addressing important issues in the community and choosing focus areas for the company’s grant funds.

Insite Interactive Endorses the Value Equation

by Adrienne Palmer

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Engagement in the CFT community has been a source of great value to me personally, to my company (Insite), and to the Insite team members. In our many years of membership, it has provided my team with a means to give back to the community and do philanthropic activities...

Enabling Employees Pays Off

Armanino teammates work together to give back and trust CFT to manage their charitable funds

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The team of independent accountants, advisors, and administrators at Armanino would rather spend their time working together to help others than vetting the many nonprofit organizations they support and managing the company’s charitable fund.