Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of you from Communities In Schools Houston! I know we all enjoyed our time away with our families and friends, and are ready to start a new year. 2006 went out with a bang here at CIS. Thanks to Doug and Linda Manner, some 80 families from 41 CIS schools received help this Christmas. Thanks to the Community Volunteer Fire Department in Alief, the Friends of CIS (FOCIS), and many other generous donors, more than $6,000 was raised to help us reach our goal of filling 2,000 Santa Sacks for CIS caseload students.

The list goes on and on, and we hope that if you haven’t already signed up for our monthly e-newsletter, you will now so you can see the January Newsletter, devoted to the special things that happened during the holiday season for our CIS students.

Houstonians are generous, and your generosity helped CIS touch the lives of its at-risk students again this year. We are truly grateful to you all, and look forward to a wonderful 2007!

by Melissa Simon, CIS Development Director