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Dallas-Fort Worth shows up for Weidner Cares 2025!
For this year’s Weidner Cares event, our Dallas-Fort Worth associates partnered with the Community Enrichment Center (CEC Hope), a nonprofit serving families across 13 counties who are navigating poverty, family violence, and housing insecurity.
Weidner Cares is an annual series of philanthropic events held in each of Weidner’s regions, where our teams volunteer their time and resources of an entire workday to support non-profit organizations making an impact in the local community. This program is one way we give back to the regions where we do business.
The day began with an unforgettable poverty simulation led by the CEC team, which offered a realistic look at the financial challenges many North Texas families face. Associates were asked to imagine life as a single parent with two children, juggling bills, childcare, and rent. The exercise ended with a sobering takeaway: for many in our community, poverty isn’t about poor decisions, it’s about impossible math and unpredictable circumstances.
With that in mind, volunteers divided into teams, ready to deliver their best work. HVAC crews performed preventative maintenance to improve safety and comfort for residents, painting teams refreshed railings throughout the community, and pantry volunteers at the main CEC food distribution center helped organize and prepare resources for families in crisis.
The impact was immediate and measurable: We gave back $100,000 in volunteer hours and service, supporting more than 1,200 families and nearly 3,600 Texans through food and essential resources.
CEC’s Property Manager summed up the emotion of the day perfectly: “The outside will finally match the inside, the spirit of this place. People are so excited.”
For CEC, partnerships like this mean more than a day of service; they mean sustainability. As one CEC leader wrote, “Every time a partner like Weidner comes alongside us, it makes a very real difference.”
We’re honored to have been part of that difference, and we thank all our DFW associates who made this day so special! We’re so proud of team Weidner!