24HourDallas

In 2022, 24HourDallas will activate our Good Neighbor Initiative, a comprehensive, community-based pilot program that aims to create safer nights out. There are six key components of this pilot initiative:

• A Safe Night Out is a comprehensive nightlife management model that provides strategies to municipal agencies, business owners, trade associations, and the community to improve safety and build mutually beneficial relationships. Safe Night’s research-based training will anchor the Good Neighbor Initiative with proven success and will change the narrative on how nightlife businesses and enforcement agencies interact. This critical program component has been made available to 24HourDallas by Responsibility.org.
• 24HourDallas volunteers will amplify the intervention role that the hospitality and restaurant sectors can have when it comes to labor trafficking and sex trafficking.
• Our volunteers invite women and girls to participate in Women U-Night on March 8, 2024, and we will advocate for nighttime operators to adopt a women’s nighttime safety charter.
• We welcome Dallas’ interfaith leaders and others of goodwill to volunteer as emissaries of peace in our nightlife districts through our Sidewalk Ambassador program.
• We will address unconscious bias toward consumers in the nightlife sector and we will help diversify nighttime entrepreneurism through a volunteer-powered training program called Every Voice.
• And 24HourDallas will recognize excellent nighttime operators in Dallas through our voluntary Copper Star Certification Program.                               

As of 2025, 24HourDallas has accredited 105 nighttime businesses in its Copper Star Certification Program, recognizing businesses24HourDallas takes pride in “deepening collaborations with local businesses, city leaders, and other nonprofit organizations to promote safety, responsible hospitality and community engagement,” as our 2025 Board President, Joshua Hunt, says. excelling in safety, operations, community relations and creating an appealing and inclusive environment. Rosie Caruth, a Board member and representative of Dallas Comedy Club, one of our proud Copper Star businesses, shares, “[Joining Copper Star] was a no-brainer! 24HourDallas’ Copper Star Certification Program helped me create an essential framework for my business…through 24HourDallas’ work I have been connected with city leaders who have been instrumental in the success of my growing business.” Another representative of a Copper Star business, Samantha R. of Henry’s Majestic, says, “One of my favorite things about the Copper Star Program is the continued education. It’s very reassuring to me to be a part of a community that shares information and tools that may save you in future situations,” referring to the multiple trainings in our program.

24HourDallas has hosted 4 annual Women U-Night events promoting the safety of female-identifying individuals at night, and held quarterly meetings and trainings with various City of Dallas departments, such as Dallas Police, Fire-Rescue, and Code Compliance, to create dialogue with nighttime business owners and promote proactive relationship-building. 24HourDallas takes pride in “deepening collaborations with local businesses, city leaders, and other nonprofit organizations to promote safety, responsible hospitality and community engagement,” as our 2025 Board President, Joshua Hunt, says.

The North Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking awarded 24HourDallas its annual Champion of Freedom Award in recognition of our work educating nighttime patrons and workers on identifying and reporting human trafficking in January 2024.

Our organization has also hosted multiple special events and trainings, reaching nearly 2,000 individuals. These community trainings include Responsible Alcohol Service, Active Bystander, Guest & Workforce Satisfaction, Anti-Human Trafficking, and De-Escalation & Door Security.

Due to years of advocacy by 24HourDallas championing the need for dedicated leadership to support nightlife businesses, workers and the community, a significant step was taken in the City of Dallas by hiring its first ever Manager of Nighttime Economy and Responsible Hospitality, Eddie Grant.

We are deeply appreciative of the support from sponsor Pernod Ricard USA, our national partners Responsibility.org and Safe Night, more than 30 local business partners, and our members for helping us advance our mission in fostering a safe, vibrant and inclusive nighttime life in Dallas.