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Your donation helps us bring the Pros in to work with the students.  Thank you for your support of 29 Pieces Education.  $25 or more will earn us bonus funds and also your $$ will double with our $10,000 challenge grant.  Donate here:  https://northtexasgivingday.org/npo/29-pieces
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Your support today during #NTxGivingDay will give 29 Pieces more opportunities to impact the lives of children through art with lessons about peace, respect, compassion and non-violence.  Donate now:  https://northtexasgivingday.org/npo/29-pieces

Wonderful testimonial from our friend, Sibyl Dana Reynolds. Help us continue our mission to change hearts and lives and create genuine, positive social change. Give: https://northtexasgivingday.org/npo/29-pieces
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This guy!!! Jeff is a 29 Pieces rock star! The last two days he's been running all over DFW volunteering his time and gas for our Pulitzer Centennial event, then worked the evening receptions for us AND THEN donated today during #NTxGivingDay. Yaozah! You're awesome Jeff. Thank you so much for all your time, talent and treasure to forward the 29 Pieces mission. #rockstar #weloveourdonors 

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What works?  Art works!  Support 29 Pieces today during #NTxGivingDay!  We are using art to awaken, uplift and give voice to the creative human spirit to make genuine, positive social change.  Donate here:  https://northtexasgivingday.org/npo/29-pieces

Learning from the Masters! 40,000 kids reached and we're going for another 40K. Help us teach the lessons of peace, respect and non-violence through art. Give today: https://northtexasgivingday.org/npo/29-pieces #NTxGivingDay #29PiecesEducation

Today, I Grieve 5:16 PM

 For such a time as this...we challenge you to SIGN THE PLEDGE!  #respectproject #29pieces

Social and Emotional Learning 1:27 PM

"Social and emotional learning (SEL) involves the processes through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

Since 1994, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has been the world’s leading organization to advance the science and evidence-based practice of SEL. CASEL has identified five interrelated sets of cognitive, affective, and behavioral competencies (see graphic).

SEL is a proven strategy that is endorsed by teachers across the country. Yet too few schools and far fewer school systems are adopting explicit evidence-based SEL strategies or integrating evidence- based SEL approaches — both of which are needed.  SEL has been underutilized for too long. Our lack of action inhibits students across the country from fully realizing their potential as knowledgeable, caring, responsible, and contributing individuals.

The time has passed to debate whether schools should make SEL a central focus. Now we must act to ensure our students and teachers are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in school, work, and life." *

For years 29 Pieces has trained facilitators and taught students of all ages in our 29 Pieces Education, Artists Making a Kinder World. This is an innovative art-based, hands-on curriculum that teaches social and emotional learning and essential social values like kindness and compassion, and important life skills such as conflict resolution and analytical thinking. More than 45,000 students have participated in 29 Pieces Education (formally known as MasterPEACE).

* From The Missing Piece: http://static1.squarespace.com/…/1382…/the-missing-piece.pdf

Karina Muniz, one of 29 Pieces' scholarship students wrote this video about her experience in the Piece 24 Project. Wheeler Sparks filmed and directed it. ‪#‎29Pieces‬ ‪#‎Piece24‬

Come Celebrate with us! It's our 10th Anniversary! 5:48 PM

We're Changing the World Piece by Piece

Give generously today during North Texas Giving Day and your donation will double with our $10,000 dollar-for-dollar matching challenge grant.

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Our Mission

29 Pieces uses art to awaken, uplift and give voice 

to the creative human spirit to make genuine, positive social change. 

North Texas Giving Day - Bishop Arts Theatre Event 4:14 PM

Save the Date 1:17 PM

Sheraton Downtown Hosts Magnificent LOVE Art Exhibit 1:00 PM

The Sheraton Downtown Dallas Hotel on North Olive is hosting a fantastic Dallas LOVE Project exhibit.  Stop by sometime to view this beautiful display of LOVE art.  

Located at 400 North Olive Street, Dallas 75201, the exhibit includes artwork from Richardson ISD, Boys and Girls Clubs, Dallas Community Lighthouse, DeSoto ISD, Karnutas Artcamp, among others.

For a full list of Dallas LOVE art venues, check out our map on the Dallas LOVE Project website.

Comerica Bank Tower / Dallas Chop House a Showcase for Dallas LOVE Art 1:08 PM

The Comerica Bank Tower and Dallas Chop House is a beautiful venue for a large display of the Dallas LOVE Project artwork. 

Artists from the following locations among many others are represented at Comerica Bank Tower:  DeSoto ISD, Richardson ISD, Keller ISD, Parish Episcopal, Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School, J Erik Jonsson School, and DISD schools.  

In addition, artwork from the Boys and Girls Clubs, Dallas Community Lighthouse, Dallas Museum of Art, First Presbyterian, New Friends New Life, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church Youth, SMU Meadows, The Stew Pot and many others are represented.

THANK YOU Comerica Bank Tower and Dallas Chop House!  

THANK YOU to our volunteers who worked several days 

to install this grand exhibition of LOVE art!

Comerica Bank Tower is located at 1717 Main Street, Dallas 75201.

Dallas LOVE Project Home Covered in LOVE Art 11:31 AM

Today we honor our In-Kind Donor, Matthews Southwest and South Side on Lamar, for the perfect home for the Dallas LOVE Project.  When we realized we would be curating over 10,000 pieces of LOVE art, we knew our little office on North Peak would not "hold all the LOVE!"

Matthews Southwest and South Side on Lamar's generous donation of 7,000 sq feet of space allowed us to work in a perfect facility big enough to hold all the LOVE and train and coordinate the hundreds of Dallas LOVE Project volunteers.

We installed hundreds of pieces at South Side on Lamar in and around our offices...stop by and see all the LOVE!

THANK YOU Matthews Southwest and South Side on Lamar!

One of our wonderful venues for the Dallas LOVE Project artwork is Dallas Love Field.  Take some time this month to stop by and see one of our larger LOVE art exhibits.  For a list/map of all the Dallas LOVE Project venues, visit www.dallasloveproject.is

We’d also like to acknowledge and say a big THANK YOU to our in-kind donor, THIRD Interactive.  Our neighbors on N Peak Street, THIRD Interactive, is an interactive services firm who helped us create our Dallas LOVE Project website.