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By Natalie Posgate
(March 2) – Members of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers gathered on Tuesday at the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity’s headquarters to present a $44,434 check that will benefit Habitat and Economic Partners Investing in Communities (EPIC).
The group raised the money at its annual DAYL Charity Ball – Another EPIC Night on Nov. 14, 2015 at Trinity Groves.
“Forty-four thousand dollars is not an insignificant amount,” said McGuire, Craddock & Strother associate Jennifer Larson Ryback, who is DAYL’s vice president and the co-chair of the DAYL Charity Ball Committee that organized the gala. “We’re hopeful that Habitat will be able to use the funds to build another house and make another Dallas-area resident a homeowner.”
The area’s Habitat is currently focusing on building houses in West Dallas and the South Dallas neighborhood, Joppa.
EPIC, the entity the check benefitted, commits itself to improving Dallas’s public safety, adding quality homeownership options, sparking economic development and transforming all parts of the city. In addition to teaming up with Habitat, EPIC accomplishes this mission by partnering with the Dallas Police Department, Mayor Mike Rawlings’ GrowSouth initiative and Safer Dallas, Better Dallas.
Ethan Minshull, the other chair of the DAYL Charity Ball Committee, said the money DAYL raised is significant for addressing the need to convert local blighted houses – which make up 60 percent of all the houses in the Dallas area – into livable homes for the community.
“As lawyers, we’re in a unique position to cut down some of the red tape,” said Minshull, an associate at Wick Phillips.
Ryback said this year’s DAYL Charity Ball is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 12 and will benefit the DAYL Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides funding for law-related matters to local non-profit organizations and some of DAYL’s philanthropic endeavors. The foundation also provides scholarships for law students who have demonstrated a passion for community service.
DAYL has also added NTTA General Counsel Dena DeNooyer Stroh as the honorary chair of this year’s charity ball committee, whom Ryback said will be a great tool for getting more of the whole Dallas area bar to get involved.
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