non-profit organizations

Nonprofits across the country have been grappling with changes in federal spending and the cuts to departments and grants. As coordinator with other local organizations, Lubbock Area United Way has been updating partners on developments at the state and national level, and advocating for policies suited to West Texas.

Oklahoma nonprofit Parent Promise has become the first group outside the State Department of Health to provide Children First Program services.

As dangerously cold temperatures grip much of the state, hundreds of people are lining up at warming shelters in Dallas. The city is working with local nonprofits to temporarily house the city’s unsheltered population.

Gambling wasn’t viewed as a moral issue in need of prohibition under the state constitution when Kansas joined the union in 1861. It wasn’t until the…