The 400<\/a>\u201d identifies the most influential individuals in Tarrant County across a range of sectors, including arts, business, education, economic development, government, professional services, nonprofits, and philanthropy, as determined by the editorial staff at Fort Worth Inc. The editorial staff\u00a0 at Fort Worth Inc. considers potential members of this list as people in Tarrant County who wield significant influence in industry, philanthropy, nonprofits, government and public policy, economic development, professional services, education, civic affairs, arts, religion, sports, and media, or within their own spheres.<\/p>\n-Child Care Associates<\/p>\n
August 2020<\/p>\n
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Child Care Associates proudly congratulates CEO, Kara Waddell\u00a0on being named one of the 400 most influential people in Fort Worth. Launched in July 2018, \u201cThe 400\u201d identifies the most influential individuals in Tarrant County across a range of sectors, including arts, business, education, economic development, government, professional services, nonprofits, and philanthropy, as determined by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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