River Oaks & Texans Event

Communities In Schools Houston (CIS) students at Foster Elementary were grateful for their relationships with both the Houston Texans and River Oaks Baptist School this holiday season. Both long-time partners of CIS, these organizations went above and beyond to make sure those kids had everything they wanted and needed.

The Texans donated brand new bicycles to all of the Foster CIS first and second graders, and spent a few minutes talking, playing, and posing for pictures with the kids. The 8th grade class at River Oaks Baptist really wanted a more hands-on experience where they really got to interact with the kids, so they invited them all over to the school for lunch and a Christmas party where they all received gifts.

CIS would like to thank the Texans and River Oaks Baptist for all of their support!

To view pictures from the events, please visit www.cantdoitalone.org.

Back to Blogging

CIS has returned to blogging! Yes, it has been a while. Actually, it's been a whole year! We hope that with this blog we can have a discussion with our community about different ways to help the ones we serve. I hope that you will share with us what you are doing to help your cause and any ideas that you may have for us.

So today I am working on our monthly e-newsletter, which this month is dedicated to giving thanks to all of our supporters. CIS can't do it alone! With the help of our supporters, we are able to help kids stay in school and prepare for life. As I learned yesterday at the 2008 Power Tools for Nonprofits annual conference, our donors should be our primary customer. CIS hopes that all our supporters know how much we appreciate them.

What are you doing today to help your cause?