NONPROFIT | september 2010
Hope & Faith
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, and a tough reminder that cancer continues to be the number one disease killer of children from the age of one year through adolescence.
“Childhood cancer affects everyone in some capacity,” points out Texas Children’s Hospital social worker, Mital Brahmbhatt. “It doesn’t pick and choose [...]
NONPROFIT | august 2010
Anna Maria Garza has been involved in girl bands since she was seventeen years old, began booking shows soon after, and is prominently involved with the organization “Hands Up Houston,” the biggest independent booking collective in Houston. “The doors for young women in rock have been opened, knocked down…but we’re not walking through them,” Anna [...]
NON PROFIT | july 2010
Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory
Class is almost out at Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory. There is a palpable sense of relief, but students are still eager to learn. Some will be back for summer school, others for an SAT prep course, and the new freshman class will arrive in early August for work-study training. Welcome [...]
NON PROFIT | june 2010
The brightly painted walls of the David Weekley Home serving as a schoolhouse for Small Steps Nurturing Center, a top-of-the-line private preschool, are covered in project-oriented curriculum (“camping” is the theme of one classroom, “transportation” of another). From the paintings and dictation of young children, one might guess at the steep tuition of such a [...]
NON PROFIT | may 2010
CHARITY CHICKS HOUSTON
When it comes to charities we all have the best of intentions, but then life happens and with all of our other commitments and responsibilities, volunteering can get pushed aside to our wish list of activities to squeeze into our schedules. Luckily, Charity Chicks Houston has devised a program that will allow even [...]
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 [...]
