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ORGANIZATIONS
Unite & Inspire
HIGHLIGHTS
• Guidestar Silver Seal of Transparency
• Presidential Volunteer Service Award Certifying
Organization (18 PVSA Medalists for 2019)
• Recognized by Fort Bend County with
Commendation Certificate for volunteering
services
• Serving special needs children, seniors, and
other underserved population locally and
internationally
• Eighteen partner organizations locally and
internationally
• More tha 10,000 hours of volunteering
• Teaching the underserved population through
Special Teams (Train to Trainers Program)
• Therapy for special needs children, meals for
underserved, and clothing for trafficking victims.
• Internships in the fields of special needs,
community service, and health care
COVID-19 RESPONSE HIGHLIGHTS • Grew from five volunteers to 178 volunteers in
1.Distribution of N-95 masks to the ICU and Covid-19 less than two years
floors of Memorial Hermann and Methodist Hospitals
2. Covid-19 Relief Campaigns: Raised & distributed
$4000 worth food supplies, $3200 school supplies INSPIRING STORY
for Title 1 Schools, $3600.39 worth devices supplies During the testing times of Covid-19, with all the social
(laptops & i-pads) for underserved kids affected by distancing and remote work, our children volunteers
Covid-19 in Fort Bend County. $1500 worth hygiene worked to raise $1000. Our high-schoolers raised
supplies for the communities affected by Covid-19 money for laptop devices that went to 12 students who
3. Partnered with 35 mainstream non-profits of are now able to attend online schooling for the next
Greater Houston for analysis, assesment, and academic year. A middle-school volunteer inspired
evaluation of affects and needs of Covid-19 affected his mother to register as donor while volunteering at
areas of the countys our collaborator’s booth, as he cannot donate due
4. With gratitude served lunches to the doctors, to his age. Aditionally, a couple of volunteers raised
nurses, staff working the ICU and Covid-19 floors of funds to help their fellow volunteers’ efforts toward
Memorial Hermann Medical Center special needs children’s project.
5. Offered counselling towards the families affected
by remote/domestic affects of Covid
6 . Webinars for the communities through partners.
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