The Rhythm and Blues Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon, and 5K will have its 4th annual run in downtown Houston on February 15, 2015. Join us, thousands of runners and spectators, and hundreds of volunteers in supporting Free Shoes for Houston and other local charities. Rhythm and blues bands will provide an electrifying, festive environment every step of the way. Register today and finish strong!
Gather with us on Sundays for Life Bible Studies at 9:30a and worship at 11a. Free parking is available in the 1111 Main garage!
The Houston Area Urban League Young Professionals (HAULYP) is an auxiliary of the Houston Area Urban League, a non-profit, non-partisan community based organization and a United Way Agency Affiliated with National Urban League.
Our vision is focused on community stewardship, activities to benefit society, and a commitment to building brotherhood making True Level Masonry in our community sustainable while inculcating and exercising the Principle Tenets of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth by our words and actions for the betterment of our brothers and all mankind. To make True Level Masonic Lodge uniformed ritualistically and administratively sound throughout the entire State. To bring this lodge financially solvent by the year 2017.
Buffalo Bayou Partnership is the non-profit organization revitalizing and transforming Buffalo Bayou, Houston's most significant natural resource.
26th Annual Creating Change at the Hilton of the Americas in Houston, January 29–February 2, 2014
St. Joseph House is designed to create a restorative environment for people with mental illness. Members and staff work together as colleagues to accomplish the goals of the Clubhouse. This program helps people with serious, persistent mental illness to restore their self-esteem and self-confidence, to re-enter the job market and to live independently. St. Joseph House offers meaningful relationships in a supportive environment. A comprehensive program of vocational training and social adjustment is offered five days a week from 8:00AM to 4:00PM. Social and recreational activities are offered on evenings and weekends. St. Joseph House provides the opportunity to be in an environment which enables members to build the confidence, self-esteem, and skills necessary for vocationally productive and socially satisfying lives while living with and accepting their illness. Work areas include culinary arts, clerical, hospitality, horticulture, and housekeeping. Members use the Clubhouse the way they need - they choose the amount of time they spend there, the type of work they engage in, and with whom they work. Members and staff make decisions together about the operation of the clubhouse. If they wish, members can participate in one of our work programs. St. Joseph House has built relationships with employers in Houston, and with the help of staff, members can secure placement with these cooperating employers. Our goal is to help individuals achieve their highest potential. Regaining self-respect and dignity is the first step toward living a full life. St. Joseph House can be classified as a psychosocial rehabilitation center, certified by the International Center for Clubhouse Development. It is the first member in Texas to be awarded this distinction.
Magnificat offers refuge and hope to the destitute by creating homes where people of different mental abilities, social backgrounds, religions and cultures, live together in community. Magnificat provides a bridge back to the outside world, and gives our residents the confidence to cross it. Our vision is to build community from diversity and to welcome the stranger-the stranger being one who is different from the other. Community is our greatest strength, and through community we strive to reveal the special value that each person has to offer the other. We are dedicated to the conviction that recovery is possible in a community that offers hope, respect, opportunity, work, a good home, education and friendship.
This is a boxing gym that was founded in the late 60s by the Great Rev. Ray Martin Sr. Among many things Rev. Ray, better known as "The Fighting Preacher", was a noble patron and a visionary. He was the first Preacher in Houston Texas to double as a professional boxer. Though his boxing career faded his passion for the troubled children in the community never diminished. Now, as the later generation begins a new, the PABA still has a tunneled vision on its primary mission; Keeping the violence in the ring. With a rapidly growing youth program and a seemingly endless history and fan base, community loyalty has been the heartbeat keeping the PABA alive. And now with new coaching staff and upcoming renovations and equipment additions it looks like we will be around for decades to come. COME JOIN THE MOVEMENT!!!!!
Chenevert Urban Gardens is a nonprofit 501(c)7 community garden with 30 allotment gardens (sized 4 x 16 ft.). Check our website for more information: www.chugardens.org
The Independent Manchester United Supporters Group meets every United match day at the King's Court in East Downtown Houston. It is a group that is non-profit in any way at all, and meets to watch matches, share the camaraderie, banter, and conviviality of all, and support Manchester United. It is a friendly group and each year we have a trip over to the Theatre of Dreams which takes in a match, but also on the Friday evening before, hosts a Dinner which one of the ex-players attends and speaks. Come on down and join us and let's make this group grow.
Under the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act passed in 2009, an entire community, rather than individual service providers, must demonstrate success in preventing and reducing homelessness. in 2011, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) named Houston as a priority community. This designation recognizes the great need to transform Houston’s existing homeless service system and the tremendous opportunity to make significant advances due to the commitment of homeless service agencies and the contributions of key community stakeholders. Although the Coalition does not provide any direct services to clients, it serves as the backbone organization to many other groups that do. The Coalition serves those who serve the homeless through research, project management, system capacity building, and advocacy. Today, the major project of the Coalition is serving as lead agency for the Houston/Harris County Continuum of Care (CoC). This work creates an improved homeless service system that more effectively provides services, support, and housing to all sub-populations within the Houston area’s homeless community, with a primary focus on moving individuals and families out of homelessness. The ultimate goal of the Houston/Harris County CoC is a homeless service system that achieves reduction in new instance of, length of, and returns to homelessness, and meets the varying needs of homeless sub-populations such as unaccompanied youth, veterans, and families with children.