AWARDS

• Selected by HISD as Outstanding Business Partner, Southwest District (‘95/’96school year)

• Selected by HISD as Outstanding Organization, Southwest District (‘97/’98 school year)

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VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

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

• Academic tutoring and help with art, library, garden, and science projects

• 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 on world travel experiences

• Helpers for Book Fair

• Volunteers for Field Day activities

• Volunteers for Fall Festival activities

• Volunteers for school clean-up for 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)

• Volunteers helped build and maintain beds at the Benavidez Community Garden

• Volunteer helped build a 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

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JACOBS PURCHASES AND DONATIONS

• Co-sponsor of Teacher Appreciation Luncheon, with Texaco, and Greater Southwest Houston

Chamber of Commerce

• Provided school supplies, supplemental teaching materials, books, microscopes, manipulatives,

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

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• 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 40 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 at the school 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

• Purchase of Jacobs / Benavidez "stock"; Over $21,000 raised through the sale of mock "stock" at

$5 per share, with all funds used to purchase supplemental teaching materials

• Donations of books, computers, printers, magazines, milk crates, toys, televisions,

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

• Donations of food, clothing, furniture, toys, and cash to Benavidez families in need

• Thanksgiving and Christmas food drives, utilizing "Turkey Bucks" programs, plus donations

• Jacobs’ Employees Club collected and delivered non-perishable food items and $250 in Kroger gift

cards to school for families in need

• "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

• JEG, Houston discretionary funds - Over $1,500 to date

• JEG, Houston Reproduction Dept. budget - Over $2,000 to date

• JEG, Houston MIS Dept. budget (computer checkout)

• Jacobs Foundation

1994-95 school year - $2,000

1995-96 school year - $3,500

1996-97 school year - $4,121

1997-98 school year - $4,227

1998-99 school year - $5,242

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• Sale of Jacobs/ Benavidez Partnership "Stock" to employees

1993-94 school year - $1,700

1994-95 school year - $2,100

1995-96 school year - $4,145 (374 "stockholders")

1996-97 school year - $4,121 (367 "stockholders")

1997-98 school year - $4,227 (367 "stockholders")

1998-99 school year - $5,197 (545 "stockholders")

• Aluminum can recycling - Over $1,300 to date

• Paper recycling - Over $6,500 to date

• Direct donation by employees of cash or items

• Donation by project Safety Committees ($294.44 - Fina Train 9 Project Safety Committee)

• Donation by partnership "Friends" (non-employees or separate companies who want to