One of Fort Worth’s all-time heroes comes home Sunday night. But what was a portrait of famous children’s advocate Edna Gladney doing in Plano? Gladney’s name is known around the world. For 33 years, ...

“It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men,” is the famous quote from writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Countless men and women have dedicated their lives to ...

Gladney began a movement that made life better for children across the state. Gladney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1886 to a young woman named Minnie Nell. Her mother was seventeen at the time ...

What Father Flanagan is to Boys Town in Nebraska, Edna Gladney was to an orphans' home in Texas operated entirely on a strong mother love instinct and the gracious donations of Texans. The home is the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Gladney Center of Adoption, a national leader in adoption services for 130 years, announced the appointment of Mark Melson to be the institution’s President and ...