Dana White

Personal Interests & Charitable Work

Dana maintains strong ties with her community and actively pursues harmony, kindness, and goodwill. Dana currently serves as a Board Member of the Southlake Rotary Club, formerly serving in such roles as President and Secretary. Dana volunteers her treasure, her time, and her resources in assisting various local and international service projects, including the fight to end polio worldwide, which is rapidly approaching total eradication. Rotary’s annual Department of Public Safety (DPS) Appreciation Event honoring area public servants/first responders is another project near and dear to Dana’s heart. Held annually in Southlake Town Square, Dana diligently works to raise money/gifts from area merchants awarded to Southlake’s Officer/First Responder of the Year. She works with her fellow Rotarians in serving burgers, BBQ, hotdogs, and sandwiches to no less than 400 area citizens at the DPS event. The Club was also able to award $6,000 in scholarships to children of DPS employees planning to attend college/trade schools. Other Rotary projects in which Dana is actively involved include facilitating the distribution of dictionaries to area elementary school students, clothing distribution to area homeless shelters, gift distributions to GRACE, and helping to Keep Southlake Beautiful, a quarterly trash pick-up project. Dana appreciates Rotary’s mission statement of ‘service before self’ and intends to continue working on charitable service projects, including honoring first public servants/responders, bolstering wounded warriors, and reinforcing other area service groups, including GRACE, the Community Storehouse, and Metroport Meals on Wheels, which provides support to families and individuals in crisis. She has been honored to serve as a Rotary Board Member/Secretary/ President of a club recognized as the “Rotary Club of the Year” for small clubs in Rotary District 5790. Dana also serves as a Board Officer/Secretary for the North Texas Shield Foundation, Inc. (NTSFI), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, which provides the Department of Public Safety for the police officers and firefighters of a particular community ‘Peace of Mind.’ Founded by renowned local jeweler Pieter Andries and retired police chief officer of Southlake Marlin Price, NTSFI works with families to help with any costs that the family may not afford. Specifically, NTSFI provides the Chief of Police or Fire Chief of an area community a check for $5000-$10,000 at the first request, instantly and immediately, to help with the needs of a fallen police officer’s or firefighter’s family, such as airline/travel costs to bring in family members. Dana is also a member of several area women’s professional networking groups, including Grapevine’s Women Who Wined Down on Wednesdays (WWWDOW), and Together We Shine. Her role in these networking initiatives includes forming business relationships, assisting other members with business opportunities, and contributing and presenting informational seminars for other women in the area. Dana also avows a deep faith and has been an active member of White’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake for over 20 years.