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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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