• Selected by HISD as Outstanding Organization, Southwest District (‘97/’98 school year)
• Selected by HISD to Judge 1998-1999 Outstanding School Volunteer Partnerships
• Selected to appear on HISD’s video telecast, Perspectives, on Volunteer Partnerships
• Asked by HISD to make two presentations, to principals and counselors, on Initiating and Improving Volunteer Partnerships
• Received Business Partner Hall of Fame award from HISD (1999/2000 school year)
• Educational Partnership Award from the Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce

(1999-2000 school year)

• Jacobs representative serves on the school’s Shared Decision Making Committee

• Academic tutoring and help with art, library, garden, and science projects
• Tutors for Project READ
• Teach the Junior Achievement curriculum to Kinder through 5^th grade classes
• Pen Pals with Benavidez students
• Speakers for Career Day
• Speakers for Black History Month
• Speakers for Hispanic Heritage Month
• Speakers for Asian History Month
• Speakers on world travel experiences
• Helpers for Book Fair
• Helpers for Science Expo
• Volunteers for Field Day activities
• Volunteers for Fall Festival activities
• Volunteers for school clean-up (Operation Sparkle)
• Brownie troop leader (2^nd grade)
• Santa and elves visit each classroom, with a small gift for each student and teacher
• Coaches for after-school basketball program for 5th grade boys
• Coaches for after-school basketball program for 5th grade girls

(One volunteer donated a basketball and a Comets T-shirt to each girl in program)

• Coaches for after-school karate program
• Volunteers helped build and maintain beds at the Benavidez Community Garden
• Volunteers helped build a pond and deck at the Benavidez Community Garden
• Volunteer established demonstration herb and vegetable gardens at the Benavidez

Community Garden

• Helped pull cable for NETDAY 2000 (added 12 Internet drops in Library)
• Chaperones for Luther’s holiday party at the Astroarena
• Chaperones for "Navidad en el Barrio", an event organized by the Houston Police Department
• Sponsors for 17 third through fifth grade girls for Jacobs’ "Take Our Child to Work Day"
• Arranged for a presentation by a NASA astronaut to the second through fifth grade classes

• Co-sponsor of Teacher Appreciation Luncheon
• Provided school supplies, supplemental teaching materials, books, microscopes, manipulatives,

paper, tabs, splines, pencil sharpeners, computers, printers, computer disks, etc.,

• Provided $3,200 to school to be used toward the purchase of a high speed duplicating machine
• Sponsorship of Cenikor drug prevention program
• Purchase of T-shirts for participants in Cenikor’s after-school KOD (Knock Out Drugs) club
• Purchase of an accordion, guitarrón, and 2 violins for music program
• Reproduction services as needed
• Jacobs’ MIS department has worked with the school to evaluate their computer needs
• Design and purchased of TAAS banner, splitting the cost with HL&P
• Funding for T-shirts for students for Navidad en el Barrio
• Donation of an artificial Christmas tree to the school
• Provided five large, laminated "Mission Statements"
• Teamed with Texaco to send 100 fifth graders to a performance of "Nutcracker"
• Teamed with Texaco to send 86 fifth graders to a performance of "Copellia" ballet
• Teamed with Texaco to provide two bicycles as awards for "Best Attendance for the Year"
• Helped fund three performances by Actors Theater for Children of "The Emperor’s New Clothes"
• Co-sponsored, with Texaco, a trip for three 5th grade classes (75 students) to Rice University to

a performance of "The Dream Maker’s Daughter" as performed by Express Theater; including a

tour of the university prior to the performance

• Funding for Benavidez Community Garden plant materials, pond, and deck
• Hosted Benavidez teachers, staff, and their families at Jacobs’ picnic and open house

• Benavidez mock "stock"; Over $30,000 raised
• Donations of books, computers, printers, magazines, milk crates, toys, televisions,

musical instruments, furniture, school supplies, craft items, Christmas trees, etc.

• Donations of food, clothing, furniture, toys, and cash to Benavidez families in need
• Thanksgiving and Christmas food drives
• "Bubbles for Benavidez" program (Jacobs employees collect soaps, shampoos, toothbrushes, etc.

from hotels while on business trips, then sort and deliver to the school for distribution to students)

• Graduation cake for 100 fifth graders
• Employee and family member arranged for donation of nuts, pretzels, chips, and cookies from

US Air

• Funds raised through sponsorships of an employee’s Houston Marathon run