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Overview
Thanks-Giving Square is a restorative and transformative downtown Dallas landmark as well as a purposeful organization that reaches out into the community to bring people together. Thanks-Giving Square seeks to inspire and activate an engaged community that works in harmony by offering events, programs, convenings, engagements and peaceful space that educate, celebrate and inspire the ideals and virtues that we strive for as a city.
The beautiful and architecturally significant Square offers visitors a contemplation garden, inspiring artwork, meeting space and an interfaith chapel. People of all backgrounds and beliefs - whether cultural, political, spiritual, generational, sexual or otherwise - are welcome to visit this safe, inclusive and restorative space to gather, reflect, celebrate and grow both personally and collectively.
Thanks-Giving Square programs focus on bridging gaps between the most divided communities among us. Thanks-Giving Square believes that by finding common ground, we can achieve a greater sense of community and gratitude to reach higher ground.
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More About Thanks-Giving Square
Thanks-Giving Square was created by four businessmen in 1964, a time of polarization paired with a yearning to create a better future for the city. Today, Dallas also faces a time of divisiveness, preventing our city from solving pressing issues such as poverty, violence, hunger, education and social disparity. Thanks-Giving Square strives to transform the city at both an individual and community-wide level, bringing people together to choose love over hate, practice gratitude daily and involve the broader community to solve the problems we cannot solve alone.
Since its inception, Thanks-Giving Square has been an aspirational expression of what Dallas could be: a diverse community brought together around a shared commitment to be the City of Thanks-Giving, a city defined by connection, inclusion, goodwill and gratitude; a city that chooses love over hate.
At Thanks-Giving Square, we gather; we connect; we heal. We come to Thanks-Giving Square to be transformed so we can go out and transform Dallas into the City of Thanks-Giving.
The Plan for Profound Community Impact
- Renovate and enhance Thanks-Giving Square
- Create a Thanks-Giving District in the center of the city that communicates Dallas' commitment to a resurgent downtown
- Transformative visitor experience that challenges visitors to open their hearts to change, and leave more aware, enlightened, engaged, connected, caring, inclusive, committed and grateful.
- Robust program for children including sponsored field trips
- Local area resident attraction
- Tourist attraction
- Continue to feature Thanks-Giving Square as the physical location for public healing and thankfulness
We are dedicated to the community through programming - a proactive convening initiative that incubates, coordinates, facilitates, educates and advocates for kindness, civility, goodwill, connection, community, engagement, equity, diversity, inclusion, gratitude, appreciation, optimism and positivity!
Mission: Coming together on Common Ground, moving together to Higher Ground
Core Focus: Elevate Dallas as the City of Thanks-Giving, a community of diverse people that take action to express gratitude and replace hate with love. This community creates the change they want in the world.
Core Values: We are guided by our commitment to the values of:
Connection, Community and Engagement
Inclusion, Equity and Engagement
Goodwill, Kindness and Civility
Gratitude, Mindfulness and Intentionality
Beliefs: We believe in the power of three simple ideas to elevate Dallas:
Choose LOVE over HATE
Get Involved, Make a Difference
Practice Gratitude
The Work: Our work can be described as an undertaking of two important goals:
First, Coming Together on Common Ground - a convening of the community to negotiate differences and create understanding and appreciation of the diversity present among us.
Second, Moving Together to Higher Ground - an initiative to lead, inspire and elevate the community to a more morally and ethically perfected state of being.
Differentiation: The important work we do involves changing hearts, minds and souls to prepare and enable the community to come together in goodwill to take action to solve the problems we can't solve alone.
Short Definer: Thanks-Giving Square‚ a destination and movement where we come together to solve the problems we can't solve alone.
Brand Promise: Thanks-Giving Square transforms people through gratitude, love and action.
Beyond being a place, Thanks-Giving Square sits at the center of Dallas’ cultural life and Advocates for a Purposeful Approach to Civic Culture and a Profoundly Caring Community.
Becoming a Profoundly Caring Community…a new journey we can take together
1) Broaden the circle of care – We need to extend our care beyond family and friends to embrace the entire community and take an interest in improving the quality of life of all those therein.
2) Connect with civility – We need to know each other and build relationships based on mutual respect so that we are able to transcend disagreement with civility.
3) Embrace differences – We need to embrace a pluralistic culture rather than a dominant or blended culture and empower all among us to express his or her individuality.
4) Champion socioeconomic mobility – We need to heal the class and economic divide and adopt an ethos whereby every person within our community has a genuine opportunity and a viable pathway to thrive and flourish.
5) Celebrate virtue and goodwill – We need to nourish our shared moral and spiritual hunger and awaken a resurgence of goodness for our personal wellbeing and that of the community.
Organization name
The Thanks-Giving Foundation
Causes
Community Improvement
Operating Budget
$500,000 - $999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American, Other
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
1627 Pacific Ave