TREC Community Investors News

TRECcast: Community Driven Growth, Part I — bcWorkshop
On today’s episode, we chat with Lisa Neergaard and Lizzie MacWillie from bcWorkshop, a Dallas-based nonprofit community design center that was one of the partners on Community Driven Growth: A Roadmap for Dallas’ Equitable Development. Learn more about Community...

Despite Coronavirus, the Dallas Catalyst Project Continues
As uncertainty from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues in our daily lives, project teams from The Real Estate Council Foundation have been hard at work furthering the Dallas Catalyst Project (DCP) effort with our community partners in the Forest District. We...

TRECcast: We Creation Innovation Center (A Dallas Catalyst Project Breakdown)
On this episode, we break down the 2020 Young Guns Foundation Project to construct the We Creation Innovation Center as part of the Dallas Catalyst Project! We chat with our project managers Tara Harandi of GFF and Patrick Henning of Brasfield & Gorrie about the...

Read the Full Community Driven Growth Report
In October 2018, The Real Estate Council Community Fund was awarded a $400,000 investment from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Partnerships for Raising Opportunity (PRO) in Neighborhoods initiative to help design a pilot program for igniting equitable development...

TREC Community Investors Announces $314K in Grants Toward Ongoing Dallas Catalyst Project
The Real Estate Council (TREC) Community Investors has pledged more than $300,000 in grants to further expand its investment in the three-year, community-driven Dallas Catalyst Project partnership to revitalize the Forest District neighborhood in South Dallas...

TRECcast: Eliza Solender on 10 Years of Real Estate 101
On today’s episode, we reminisce about the 10-year anniversary of TREC’s Real Estate 101 program with instructor Eliza Solender of Solender/Hall, Inc.! In the last decade, Real Estate 101 has helped teach the real estate acquisition process to more than 250 nonprofit...