History of CareerDFW

August 2008 - Five career management groups split from a larger career group. Each group was now out on their own. In order to promote each other, flyers were created to promote each others career group.

September 2008 - Jeff Morris looked at other ways to promote the groups and found that www.CareerDFW.org was available and purchased the website name. Having never built a website, Jeff used his career network to find someone to show him how to build a website. Jeff created a word document that mocked up what he envisioned the website to look like.

October 2008- After a few false starts, Jeff found Rick Arroyave (thru networking) to help Jeff get this website started. Rick has helped several nonprofits build their websites and he helped by pointing to the right program to structure, manage, and publish the information. Jeff started attending (and still does attend) a monthly website users group meeting and learned from experienced and very helpful website designers...people just like you.

November 17, 2008- www.CareerDFW.org is officially launched.

November 17, 2008- A CareerDFW Linkedin group is created.

March 2009 - Jeff Morris attended two seminars called "To be or not to be a 501(c)(3)" at the Dallas Center for Nonprofit Management.

March 21, 2009 - CareerDFW is a feature story written by Cheryl Hall in the Dallas Morning News Business Section.

March 23-24, 2009 - Highest visitor count to the website so far, over 1100 visitors in a 24 hour period.

April 23, 2009 - The CareerDFW Linkedin Group reaches its 500th member.

May 2009 - Jeff Morris asked Dennis O'Hagan and Dr. Glen Earl to form a Board of Directors for CareerDFW.

July 1, 2009 - Articles of Incorporation of CareerDFW were filed with the Secretary of State of Texas and a Certificate of Formation for a Nonprofit Corporation was issued.

July 7, 2009 - CareerDFW applies for an Employer Identification Number which was issued by the Department of The Treasury, Internal Revenue Service.

August 14, 2009 - CareerDFW files paperwork with the Department of The Treasury, Internal Revenue Service for 501c3 non-profit status.

September 10, 2009 - The CareerDFW Linkedin Group reaches its 1000th member.

October 6, 2009 - CareerDFW receives a letter of determination from the Internal Revenue Service stating that as of July 1, 2009 CareerDFW is"exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. Contributions to you are deductible under section 170 of the Code. You are also qualified to receive tax deductible bequest, devises, transfers of gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the code."  "We have determined that you are a public charity under the Code..."

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October 21, 2009 - CareerDFW receives it first donation from the Southlake Focus Group.

November 17, 2009 - The CareerDFW website celebrates its 1st birthday. In the past year:

• We have had over 52,000 visitors
• Visitors from all 50 states in the US
• Visitors from 74 countries around the globe
• Became a 501(c)(3) Public Charity Non Profit as of July 1, 2009.
• Now averaging 1200-1500 visitors a week.
• The site list over 140 events a week
• The site list 80 networking groups a week (most free)
• The site has a list of over 100 different professional organizations in the DFW area
• CareerDFW is listed as the source for Job Fairs in the Dallas Morning News on Sundays in the A Section.

December 29, 2009- CareerDFW receives from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts exemptions for Texas Franchise Tax and Texas Sales and Use Tax.

January 26, 2010 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has it 1500th member.

February 1, 2010 - CareerDFW releases to the public a FREE NEW Jobs Board. Free to post, Free to view. Jobs only stay posted for 21 days.

February 7, 2010 - CareerDFW is now on Twitter. Many thanks to David Swinney for setting up programs to allow up to 5 new jobs each 30 minutes to be posted on Twitter from the CareerDFW NEW Jobs board. Follow the job postings at www.Twitter.com/CareerDFWJobs.

March 16, 2010 - A user posts the 500th job on the Free CareerDFW NEW Jobs Board.

March 30, 2010 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has it 2000th member.

April 12, 2010 - 500,000 pages have been veiwed on the CareerDFW website since the site started November 17, 2008.

April 21, 2010 - A user posts the 1000th job on the FREE CareerDFW NEW Jobs Board.

May 25, 2010 - The CareerDFW website has its 100,000 visitor. Since 11/17/08 visitors from over 101 countries have visited CareerDFW.

June 17, 2010 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 2500th member.

July 6, 2010 - A user post the 2000th job on the FREE CareerDFW NEW Jobs Board.

September 3, 2010 - A user post the 3000th job on the FREE CareerDFW NEW Jobs Board.

October 4, 2010 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 3000th member.

October 4, 2010 - 1,000,000 (1 million) pages have been veiwed on the CareerDFW website since the site started November 17, 2008.

November 17, 2010 - CareerDFW celebrates it's two year anniversary. In the past two years:

• People have gone to the website over 160,000 times.
• Over 1,100,000 pages have been viewed on the website.
• Visitors from all 50 states in the US and 122 countries around the globe.
• The website now averaging 3000-3500 visitors a week.
• The CareerDFW New Jobs board has posted over 3990 jobs since it started February 1, 2010. ALL for FREE! Free to the company posting the opening and Free for you to view.
• The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has grown to over 3200 people. Are you part of the group?
• CareerDFW is listed as the source for Job Fairs in the Dallas Morning News when listed on Sundays in the A Section.

November 17, 2010 - A user post the 4,000th job on the FREE CareerDFW NEW Jobs Board.

December 31, 2010 - A few facts from the past year

• Participated in 20 Job / Career Fairs in the DFW area
• Passed out over 6500 flyers at the career events
• Passed out over 9500 CareerDFW business cards
• Gave 11 speeches about CareerDFW to groups in the DFW area
• Posted 4,602 jobs on the NEW Jobs board
• Have 3360 members in the CareerDFW LinkedIn Group
• Had 115,176 visitors to the CareerDFW website in 2010 (87% from Texas and 97% from US.)
• Visitors from 125 countries and all 50 states in the US

January 26, 2011 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 3,500th member.

February 1, 2011 - The CareerDFW NEW Jobs Board celebrates its 1st Birthday. 5127 jobs were posted for FREE in the first year.

March 11, 2011 - The CareerDFW website has its 200,000 visitor. Since 11/17/08 visitors from over 137 countries have visited CareerDFW.

April, 18, 2011 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 4,000th member.

May 24, 2011 - A user post the 7,000th job on the FREE CareerDFW New Jobs Board.

November 3, 2011 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 5,000th member.

November 17, 2011 - CareerDFW celebrates it's three year anniversary. In the past three years:

• People have gone to the website over 308,000 times.
• Over 2,137,000 pages have been viewed on the website.
• Visitors from all 50 states in the US and 168 countries around the globe.
• The website now averaging 3000-3500 visitors a week.
• The CareerDFW New Jobs board has posted over 9200 jobs since it started February 1, 2010. ALL for FREE! Free to the company posting the opening and Free for you to view.
• The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has grown to over 5050 people. Are you part of the group?

January 4, 2012 - A user post the 10,000th job on the FREE CareerDFW NEW Jobs Board.

January 2012 - The CareerDFW Board of Directors expands from 3 to 4 people. Richard Solomon joins Jeff Morris, Dennis O'Hagan and Dr. Glen Earl on the CareerDFW Board for 2012.

February 1, 2012 - The CareerDFW NEW Jobs board celebrates its 2nd birthday. 10,455 jobs have been posted for FREE.

September 6, 2012 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 7,000th member.

September 12, 2012 - Jeff Morris releases his first book, YOUR JOB SEARCH: What I've Learned About YOUR JOB SEARCH That You May Not Know. Click here to read more

September 20, 2012 - Jeff Morris, Founder and President of CareerDFW met U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the White House Forum on Job Clubs and Career Ministries. (Read the press release here) The event was held in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House in Washington, DC. The purpose of this forum is to bring together job club and ministry leaders, workforce development officials, and faith and nonprofit leaders from across the country with representatives from the White House, Department of Labor, and other federal agencies.  Discussions included the important role of job support groups in getting Americans back to work. In addition to the morning forum, Jeff met with representatives from federal agency Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Centers. To read Jeff's review of the day, click here.

October 2012 - CareerDFW has been selected by the Dallas GiveCamp to assist in a website makeover. Click here for more info.

October 26-28, 2012 - This is the Dallas GiveCamp weekend. The CareerDFW website is updated.  CareerDFW launches CareerUSA.org. A website to help those in other parts of the US. Several changes were made to the CareerDFW.org webiste. The following tabs were moved to CareerUSA.org: Files, Websites, Books, NEW Jobs and the Humor sections. If you click on one of these tabs on the CareerDFW site, it will take you to www.CareerUSA.org. In addition, a new templete was installed along with drop down menus and both sites are now mobile friendly and more secure with the latest software updates. Click here for more info on the Dallas GiveCamp weekend. 

November 17th, 2012 - CareerDFW celebrates its 4th birthday.

• People have gone to the website over 487,000 times.
• Over 2,871,000 pages have been viewed on the website.
• Visitors from all 50 states in the US and 182 countries around the globe.
• The website now averaging 4000-4400 visitors a week.
• The CareerDFW New Jobs board has posted over 12,900 jobs since it started February 1, 2010. ALL for FREE! Free to the company posting the opening and Free for you to view.
• The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has grown to over 7350 people. Are you part of the group?

December 9, 2012 - Jeff Morris' book, "What I've Learned About YOUR JOB SEARCH That You May Not Know" is reviewed in the Sunday Business section of the Dallas Morning News by Jim Pawlak. Jim reviews 2 business books each week for 22 papers around the US. Click here to read the review.

December 30, 2012 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 7,500th member.

September 25, 2013 - CareerDFW puts on career seminars at the Putting Texans Back to Work Job Fair sponsored by the Cumulus DFW Radio stations. Two thousand people attended the job fair and over 300 people attended the 4 topics that rotated thru the day. A total of 11 seminars were conducted by Locke Alderson and Jeff Morris. 

October 7th, 2013 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 9,000th member. 

October 22, 2013 - CareerDFW reviews resumes at the Dallas Morning News / Expo Experts job fair in Irving. Three volunteers, Maxine Walker, Sue Wolfson and Jeff Morris reviewed almost 100 resumes from job seekers at the event.

October 28th, 2013 - The CareerUSA.org website celebrates its 1st birthday.

November 17th, 2013 - CareerDFW celebrates its 5th birthday.

• People have gone to the websites (CareerDFW.org & CareerUSA.org) over 577,000 times.
• Over 3,190,000 pages have been viewed on the website.
• Visitors from all 50 states in the US and 184 countries around the globe.
• The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has grown to over 9200 people. Are you part of the group?

November 2013 - CareerDFW and CareerUSA turns off the New Job board after almost 4 years due to techinical issues. Over 18,000 jobs were posted. Users can still post jobs on the CareerDFW Linked Group Job tab. A new job baord program is being researched.

March 26, 2014 - CareerDFW puts on career seminars at the Putting Texans Back to Work Job Fair sponsored by the Cumulus DFW Radio stations. Over two thousand people attended the job fair and over 410 people attended the 4 topics that rotated thru the day. A total of 11 seminars were conducted by Locke Alderson and Jeff Morris. 

June 5th, 2014 - The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has its 10,000th member. 

October 2014 - CareerDFW and CareerUSA.org were selected by the Dallas Give Camp for a website makeover. On October 17-19 several volunteers gave their weekend to help CareerDFW and CareerUSA.org update the website to the most current software and gave both sites a makeover. In addition we were able to restart the job board on CareerUSA.org website. Job stay posted for 21 days only. 

November 17, 2014 - CareerDFW celebrates its 6th birthday. 

• People have gone to the websites (CareerDFW.org & CareerUSA.org) over 676,000 times.
• Over 3,410,000 pages have been viewed on the website.
• Visitors from all 50 states in the US and 185 countries around the globe.
• The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has grown to over 10,625 people. Are you part of the group?

 November 17, 2015- CareerDFW celebrates its 7th birthday. 

• People have gone to the websites (CareerDFW.org & CareerUSA.org) over 989,000 times.
• Over 3,780,000 pages have been viewed on the website.
• Visitors from all 50 states in the US and 188 countries around the globe.
• In the past year, over 700 jobs have been posted on the FREE New Jobs Board on www.CareerUSA.org.
• The CareerDFW LinkedIn group has grown to over 10,980 people. Are you part of the group?

January 1, 2016 - Do you buy anything from Amazon? Please use the link at the bottom of any page of our website. Thanks for those of you who helped.

• 532 items were ordered in 2015
• total sales of $12,055.19 in 2015

September 2016 - CareerDFW and CareerUSA.org were selected by the Dallas Give Camp for a website help with several technical issues.

September 30 - October 2, 2016 - Dallas Give Camp weekend. Several items were fixed and updated

• Websites updated to the latest and most secure versions
• Both websites updated from http: to https - this provides a more secure way to view the websites
• Using a program www.wave.webaim.org checked the websites to allow those visually impaired to use reader software
• Updated componets and plugins
• Modified the FREE Jobs Board with new features

November 8, 2016 - CareerDFW celebrates its 8th birthday

January 1, 2017 - Do you buy anything from Amazon? Please use the link at the bottom of any page of our website. Thanks for those of you who helped.

• 555 items were ordered in 2016
• total sales of $9,724.69 in 2016

September 14, 2017 - CareerDFW participates for the first time in the Communities Foundation of Texas' 9th annual North Texas Giving Day.

• $39 million was raised from 136,000 donations for 2,700 organizations.
• CareerDFW received 7 gifts for a total of $248.00 - Many thanks to the 7 donors who supported CareerDFW.

November 17, 2017 - CareerDFW celebrates its 9th birthday.

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