THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020

COVID-19
A Roundup of Resources for Small Businesses

Stepping up to help businesses, local organizations such as the Dallas Regional Chamber, UNT Health Science Center, the UTD Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the U.S. India Chamber of Commerce are distributing vital information.

‘WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER’
EarthX2020, the World's Largest Environmental Gathering, is Going Virtual

The show must go on. EarthX will mark the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day virtually, along with the partner National Geographic Society.

TRAFFIC PATTERNS
How We Use Our Mobile Devices Has Changed in Just a Week, AT&T Stats Show

(Spoiler: Learning is up, taxes and wedding planning, not so much).

FOLLOW THE MONEY
Predictive Fitness Nets Almost $800K, Jacobs Completes Nuclear Acquisition

In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition acitivity involving companies in North Texas, you'll also find news from StackPath, MedProperties, Naya Ventures, and Charter Health Care Group.

Editor's Note: Dallas Innovates' calendar is on hiatus with so many event cancellations due to coronavirus. We’ll continue to update readers as we learn more about virtual events being launched in the region. Have one we should know about? Let us know.

Your daily catch-up of what's new + next in Dallas-Fort Worth.

COVID-19: LOCAL RESTAURANTS STEP UP
Bowlski’s Owner Launches Delivery Website to Save Neighborhood Restaurants
Craig Spivey, the man behind the historic movie theater-turned-bowling alley, has launched saveneighborhoodrestaurants.com to support local businesses during coronavirus. There's no fees for restaurants to participate, and no delivery charge for customers. Go here to see what local restaurants are also offering takeout and delivery specials during this time.

DFW Coronavirus Tracker: Texas Restaurants Can Deliver Booze
Governor Abbott issued a new waiver that allows Texas restaurants (with mixed beverage permits) to deliver alcohol with food purchases, starting immediately. He also directed the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to waive provisions, which permits wholesalers and retailers to repurchase/sell back unopened inventory, the DBJ reports.

Oddfellows, Better Block Transform Restaurant into Outdoor Market
Adaptive urbanism nonprofit Better Block is teaming up with Oddfellows in Bishop Arts to transform the restaurant into one that makes more sense in the light of COVID-19. The makeshift pop-up outdoor market will use market stalls constructed by the Better Block crew (previously made for a now-canceled event) and fill them with Oddfellows stock, per D Magazine.

Dallas Restaurants Are Doing Good Deeds Even During COVID-19
And lastly, here’s a roundup from CultureMap of generous things the local food and beverage industry has stepped up to do. It includes VisitDallas developing a micro-website, a Gofundme to help workers on Greenvile Avenue, the Deep Ellum Bartender Relief Fund, and more.

To read more (and get our week's Top 10), head here.

Get Shift Done: New North Texas Fund Puts Hospitality Workers Hit by COVID-19 Back to Work—at Nonprofits

The initiative is the brainchild of business leaders Anurag Jain and Patrick Brandt.

DocSynk’s First Quarter Milestones Propel it Toward Series A Funding

Q+A: Here’s What an Edge Computing Startup is Doing in the Wake of Coronavirus

Look at Some Major Local Winners From AAF Dallas’ 2020 ADDY Awards

"As I often tell my team, 'If I wanted easy, I would've done what everyone else was doing, but I've never wanted the easy way out and that's why we're here and, more importantly, that’s why we’re successful.'"

Brittany Stovall
CEO and Co-founder
Assured Quality Systems
…on being a black woman in the automotive industry, via the DBJ.

After receiving mentorship in automotive manufacturing, Stovall decided to create her Grand Prairie-based company with Paulina Sandoval, per the Dallas Business Journal. Stovall founded her risk-management firm in 2013, which provides tech solutions primarily to the automotive manufacturing industry.

In the past five years, AQS has grown 400 percent and has operations in the U.S. and Mexico. Toyota, Lear, and Adient are among its partners.

"I truly feel that AQS has left a forever mark in the 'man’s world' of automotive," Stovall told the DBJ.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020

COVID-19 A Roundup of Resources for Small Businesses

‘WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER’ EarthX2020, the World's Largest Environmental Gathering, is Going Virtual