NON PROFIT | march 2010
AIDS Walk Houston, March 14
8am check-in
Kick-Off Party, March 3, 5-7pm
AIDS WALK HOUSTON, MARCH 14
8AM CHECK-IN | KICK-OFF PARTY, MARCH 3, 5-7PM
The Center for AIDS Houston is a fourteen-year-old nonprofit with volunteer opportunities, innovative programs and, in the words of Executive Director Paul Simmons, RN, ACRN, “more bang for your buck.”
An organization that promotes education and advocacy [...]
NON PROFIT | february 2010
FAMILY FUN AND A CAUSE, TOO
THE 4TH ANNUAL CHRISTOPHER’S HEART FUN RUN | saturday, february 6, 2010 sam houston downtown park opening ceremony is at 8am to register for christopher’s heart fun run, visit www.umdf.org
You know how some people take personal tragedy and turn it into something really good? Debra Shindler is one [...]
NON PROFIT | january 2010
HEY YOU! The planet needs your help. Take action now by joining one of Houston’s green nonprofit organizations.
Clean (Citizen’s League for Environmental Action Now)
Clean’s mission is to inform and educate citizens about environmental abuses so that they will take action to protect their children, future generations and endangered species. Clean participates in conferences, organizes workshops, co-sponsors press [...]
NON PROFIT | december 2009
Interview by Allison Bagley
AN EMPOWERING EDUCATION
www.kenyascholarship.org
The locally run Kenya Scholarship Fund gives Nairobi females the gift of a high school education and, with it, a very bright future.
Alice Hastings-James moved from her native Kenya to the U.S. with her husband in 1989. They have both enjoyed long careers in the oil industry that have led [...]
NON PROFIT | november 2009
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL
www.cishouston.org
Linda Gale White, former Texas First Lady (her husband Mark White was Governor from 1983-1987), is qualified to speak about Communities In Schools Houston, Inc. She has been working with CIS nearly since its inception; she is on both the state and national boards of directors and was even made a lifetime member [...]
COOL GLOBES | october 2009
Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
The past ten years on Earth have been the warmest decade in history. Global warming is a fact – an issue we can no longer ignore. In North America alone over 2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away each hour. Each Sunday, over 500,000 trees are used to [...]
