Selected by HISD as Outstanding Business Partner, Southwest District (‘95/’96
school year)
- 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)
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
- 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 5th
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 (2nd 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
JACOBS PURCHASES AND DONATIONS
- 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
EMPLOYEE DONATIONS
- 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
FUNDING SUMMARY TO DATE