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For more than 30 years, Dallas’ Big Thought has been working to equip youth in marginalized communities to imagine and create their best lives, for themselves and for the world. The organization is now a national model for arts education, after...

Big Thought’s president and CEO, Byron Sanders, was recently interviewed by the Comprehensive Center Network about our over 30-year history of innovation and education in the Dallas area. In the interview, he spoke about Big Thought’s...

Wallace Brings More Than 17 Years of Experience In Development, Equity and Advocacy to the Post DALLAS, TX, November 3, 2021 — Big Thought, an impact nonprofit, announced today that it has appointed Akilah Wallace as vice president of development...

A life of service well lived. Big Thought mourns the loss of our friend and supporter Peter O’Donnell, Jr. who passed away at the age of 97 on October 10, 2021. O’Donnell is survived by his daughters: Ann O’Donnell, Carol Kradolfer (Lyle),...

At Big Thought, we firmly believe that greatness is inherent inside all youth. And if we as nonprofit leaders in the education space want to give that greatness its space to breathe in youth across all spectrums, then we must make the changes that...

Big Thought is pleased to announce it has received $2.5 million in donations — $1 million from the Rainwater Charitable Foundation based in Fort Worth, Texas, and $1.5 million from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett. Scott and Jewett...