Bring Your Family Out To The 6th Annual Sugarland BASH!
Do you wish there was a free family-friendly event to take your children to this month? Well there is, and it’s for a great cause! The 6th Annual Sugarland BASH is guaranteed fun for the whole family and it directly benefits the Snowdrop Foundation. The Snowdrop Foundation is a non-profit organization that helps patients and […]
Help The Houston Food Bank Fill Pantries & Lives
Houston is a great city to do volunteer work, there are so many opportunities and plenty of non-organizations needing your help. One in particular, the Houston Food Bank, needs volunteers all year round. The Houston Food Bank is a non-profit organization that collects and distributes food to hunger relief charities across the city. All of […]
Student’s Life Saved By Her Teacher’s Donated Kidney
A teacher’s job is to inspire their students to follow their dreams, while ensuring that they learn the necessary skills for their future. In London, one teacher at the Royal Docks Community School has gone beyond the call of duty by donating a kidney to ensure that one of his students will get a chance […]
Groove to the Sounds of the Past at the Rhythm & Blue Cure!
How would you like to spend a Friday night enjoying cocktails, tasty bites and live music for a great cause? In honor of Men’s Awareness Month, Hotel Zaza and the Blue Cure Foundation are getting an early start sponsoring the Rhythm & Blue Cure event. This epic throwback party will feature the classic sounds of […]
Grow Gardens and Enrich Lives with Urban Harvest!
Have a green thumb and love helping your community? Urban Harvest is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of healthy nutrition through community gardens, farmer’s markets, and education. The organization has over 80 community gardens across Houston, hosts the Eastside farmer’s market, provides more than 100 classes a year on a variety of […]
Mattress Mack’s Mack-O-Pedic
Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale has been inspiring fellow Houstonians with his words of wisdom and charitable nature for years now, so when he created the Mack-O-Pedic mattresses, we knew they would be the best night’s sleep in Texas, hands down!
Giving the Gift of a Regular Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmzFzzK3-fM How far do you think a random act of kindness can go? When two friends decided that they wanted to make someone’s day by simply being kind, their random act of kindness found Michael, a homeless man living in the downtown area of St. Louis, Missouri. Austin McBroom, a basketball player at St. Louis […]
The Love of a Blind Deer Named Dillie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGeQE-BBDvI Dillie, the blind deer, was born on a deer farm in 2005, and abandoned by her mother to take care of her stronger siblings. When the dying fawn was bought into Melanie Butera’s emergency vet clinic, their lives were both changed forever. Melanie and her husband Steve brought the weak fawn back to their […]
Share the Gift of Reading at the Adult Reading Center!
Loving reading and wish to share the knowledge of literacy? The Adult Reading Center of Pearland is the only community and volunteer based organization that teaches reading and writing skills to people in need, free of charge. The goal is to teach students four basic reading levels, from no reading experience, to a six grade […]
Wine & Dine In Support Of The James Beard Foundation!
Are you a Houston foodie with a huge heart? The well-known alumni of the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Houston are returning to their alma mater for one night only on May 17, 2014, at 6 p.m. to prepare extraordinary culinary creations in support of the James Beard Foundation, which helps provide scholarships for […]