Photo Courtesy Jim LonerganJim Lonergan of Grapevine said he has always been involved in giving back to community through the years, and had wanted to start a foundation for some time.
The idea, the right friends and the need all came together last year. Dallas and Fort Worth both have their big, longstanding community foundations, but none representing the mid-cities area really existed.
"It's not that we've been underserved, it's just where we sit geographically," Lonergan said. "[Now] we have people and companies that have established roots here."
He started talking about his idea informally and then with a group that got down to specifics: They wanted a foundation that would target youth in the Northeast Texas area.
