Jennifer Bartkowski

Plus: ParkHub acquires San Francisco-based Smarking, and Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas secures a huge gift from MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

D CEO and Communities Foundation of Texas honored DFW nonprofits and the companies that support them at The Factory in Deep Ellum.

Presented in partnership with Communities Foundation of Texas, year's awards will recognize 126 North Texas nonprofit organizations and corporations.

In a year that called for extraordinary service, these organizations and leaders stood out.