The Moody Foundation recently awarded Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement (VIDA) a grant of $125,000. The grant aims to assist VIDA in providing job retraining and education that will address job loss in the Rio Grande Valley due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Frances Moody-Dahlberg, chairman and executive director of The Moody Foundation and great granddaughter of its founders, “The Moody Foundation’s Galvestonian founders weathered many storms. It was those storms that forged their dreams of a better Texas. They created the Moody Foundation to strengthen the future of Texas. We will continue to honor our founders’ vision to ...