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Vickery Meadow Hosts Successful Summer Reading Drive

EFNT's 12th Annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship Event was a huge success! Over 230 people gathered to see Ms. Ebby Halliday Acers inducted into the Ring of Entrepreneurs.
12th Annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship Event

True human spirit found at...
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Travis Wolff employees filled up my car with donations for tornado victims in OK City. Great job!
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Martha Stowe from Vickery Meadow Youth Development Foundation on the Bookapalooza Event - wherein EFNT Member Companies helped raise over 1100 books!
Jun 5, 2013 11:17am

EFNT Member Company, Hazel's Hot Shot, an established leader in the freight industry http://www.hazelshotshot.com/ helped transport and load/unload thousands of books for Vickery Meadow kids summer reading pleasures. What an incredible contribution - thank you to Hazel's CEO, Dustin Marshall and his team!
http://www.hazelshotshot.com/

EFNT Member Company, Synerzip CEO, Hemant Elhence awarded Entrepreneur of the Month by Silicon India. Congratulations! http://www.siliconindia.com/magazine_articles/Steering_towards_Success_WITH_AGILE_EXPERTISE_-ILGI216193349.html
Steering towards Success WITH AGILE EXPERTISE - Vignesh.A - SiliconIndia Magazine

Hello Entrepreneurs for North Texas - join us next week for a chat about radical transparency and a glass of wine. Cheers!
The Grove, Dallas

Klemchuk, Travis Wolff, The Insource Group, Ultimate Health Matters, JC Penny and Telligent - all EFNT Member Companies attended out Practitioner Roundtable and heard from Circle of Support, Hunger Busters and Attitudes and Attire, our upcoming Plug 'N Play Partners for the year! What a great session...thank you all!

We are proud to announce the winners of EFNT's North Star Awards - Optimal Solutions, Sleep Experts and The Insource Group! Congratulations to each of you!! Watch for posts in coming weeks about all the exciting initiatives coming from our EFNT Member Companies.

Oklahoma City Community Foundation

EFNT partners with Texchange to organize a custom project for some of their members. They are at the Food Bank with us. Thank you Vik Thapar President of Texchange for making it happen!
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MarketWave volunteering at North Texas Food Bank in the frozen foods section... Brrr!
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We have a few slots open at a custom volunteer project we are hosting at North Texas Food Bank. Email sdesai@efnt.org if you are available between 9-11:30am tomorrow. You will be able to serve alongside TexChange members and MarketWave employees.

Calling all EFNT Member Company Volunteers!!! We'd love some feedback as we plan the calendar for the next fiscal year! Tell us what some of your favorite Plug 'N Play experiences have been and why...

TexChange Members and one of EFNT Member Companies, MarketWave will be at the North Texas Food Bank this friday, May 17 from 9-11:30am. We have a few extra spots if you want to join them and us in a morning of service - email sdesai@efnt.org today!

Are you an EFNT Member Company that has been actively involved in community efforts? Do you have a person in your organization that you may want to recognize for their community efforts? Remember - EFNT North Star Award nominations are due on May 17 for both the company and individual categories. For more information email sdesai@efnt.org. We look forward to seeing your application soon!

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Thanks to the Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Policies that many EFNT Member Companies have in place, employees of these companies have worked with EFNT to volunteer an incredible 5,900+ hours since July 2012! If your company doesn't already have a VTO policy in place, here is a template you can use to help you get started.
Volunteer Time Off Policy Template

North Star Awards Nomination Deadline is May 17. Make sure you get your nomination to us in time! Open only to EFNT Member Companies. For more information contact Sejal at sdesai@efnt.org

EFNT Member Company Telligent doing an awesome job with the book drive benefiting Vickery Meadow Youth Development Foundation!
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1) Pledge the value of a % of shares of company stock
2) Pay an annual fee
3) Open a fund at Communities Foundation of Texas 
4) Donate now to EFNT Fund

This year's event titled, "Building the American Dream" was a night to remember as we inducted one of Dallas' first successful female entrepreneurs, Ebby Halliday Acers, into our esteemed Ring of Entrepreneurs.

More than 500 Corporate Citizens contributed over 3,600 hours of community service to provide Zumwalt Middle School with a makeover on Freedom Day 2012.