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Houston Chronicle celebrates city's volunteers

[...] Houstonians and area organizations contributed $14 billion to causes last year. The Houston Chronicle Media Group participates in programs important to the...

Vote for your favorite charity in Chronicle's $1 Million Charity Giveaway

Brace for oil industry woes

Many Houston charitites count on oil industry's deep pockets and corporate volunteers

Smart giving takes some planning and research

Advocating for a cause with time and talent is critical to Millennials.

Millennials bit by philanthropy bug

Advocating for a cause with time and talent is critical to Millennials.

Pricing and benefits vary depending on age group (all younger than 45), but all include invites to cocktail parties, exhibit previews and other programs, as well as behind-the-scenes tours and a discount at the bookstore; menil.org/menil-contemporaries.html.
Created for "fun, intellectual types," membership benefits include quarterly social soirées and mixers, with discounted tickets for friends, too; hmns.org.
Budding leaders ages 21-39 can participate in museum events, outreach projects and educational programs to help teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy; hmh.org/ed_Next_Generation.shtml.
Bayou Buddies, Buffalo Bayou Partnership:
Besides two passes on the partnership's pontoon boat, members get free or discounted entry to group happy hours and events - the annual Bayou Bash is April 25;buffalobayou.org/get-involved/bayou-buddies.
In addition to having the benefits of an enhanced RDA membership, these supporters champion the Bayou City's built community through special events and volunteer projects; ricedesignalliance.org/rdagents.
Members of the Urban League's under-40 auxiliary group host and attend seminars, public forums and other awareness-related events to improve quality of life for people of color; haulyp.org.
Popular annual events from this group geared toward fundraising and raising awareness of issues relating to those affected by HIV/AIDS include a toga party; beringomega.org/volunteer/youngprofessionals.

Young donors have many charities and organizations from which to choose

Recent capital campaigns are driving big gifts to high levels.

$1 million donations new normal for Houston arts?

Recent capital campaigns are driving big gifts to high levels.

During the past 28 years, the Buffalo Bayou Partnership has raised more than $150 million in private and public funds for the bayou's redevelopment, protection of land for future parks, hike and bike trail construction and a cleanup program.
While fundraising continues on the East End project, the $8 million raised so far has come from public/private partnerships and foundations, corporations and private individuals willing to open their wallets for a good cause.
Olson says the partnership has $500,000 in private money and $4 million in federal money to move the existing fences and basketball courts, pave the bit of trail and build the pedestrian bridge that will make it easier for people on both sides of the bayou to gain access.
The idea, she says, is to improve the facility for the boaters who already use the site and to improve the surrounding area so that the public can enjoy it, too.
What once was abandoned industrial real estate has been transformed by three wetland ponds, rock walls, a cistern and $10,000 in wetland plants and native trees.
With a $500,000 grant from Texas Parks and Wildlife, plans for hike and bike trails, a boardwalk, an observation deck and interpretive signs should be finished in early 2016.

Buffalo Bayou Partnership presses on with others

They're dedicated to saving dogs at a higher risk of being euthanized.

Volunteers drive efforts to find homes for old, large and sick dogs

They're dedicated to saving dogs at a higher risk of being euthanized.

Cancer survivor makes the jump to give back to clinic
Physicians and staff at the Rose, a Houston-area breast cancer clinic, never tire of hearing from survivors who walk out as healthier, happier women.
"Fueled by frustration and driven by passion," Dorothy Gibbons and Melillo established the Rose in 1986 as the first nonprofit breast cancer organization based on the insured covering the costs of the uninsured.
In following their motto, "Sky-dive, have fun, give back," the organization's women have broken two state records, two national records and are the first to hold the women's world record for the World Air Sports Federation.
Since the beginning, Jump for the Rose has teamed with Skydive Spaceland in Rosharon, where it holds its main events.

Cancer survivor jumps at chance to help the Rose clinic