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Katy-Area Volunteers Needed To Help In Nonprofit Resale Shop, As Mentors For Children
Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for Katy-area residents who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations.
ACCEPT DONATIONS and sort merchandise for a resale shop in Katy that benefits a nonprofit agency serving low-income persons. Your organizational skills will help bring order to what can otherwise be a chaotic collection of clothing and household [...]
Photo Gallery: Sugar Land’s “Cutest” Children
27. May 2010
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Sugar Land Town Square recently held its third annual Sugar Land’s Cutest Contest. The “cutest” children were named in four categories including, Baby (0-12 months), Toddler 1 (13-24 months), Toddler 2 (25-36 months) and Preschooler (37-47 months).
Continue reading...Volunteer Fort Bend Looking For Volunteers To Assist Children In Need
24. May 2010
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Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations.
Here are some current needs:
Assist children in need
You’ll help children in the Lamar ISD get off to a good start in the fall semester thanks to a clothing and school supply drive scheduled for this summer. Volunteers will be [...]
Take An Afternoon Break At George Memorial Library
20. May 2010
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Book-lovers are invited to take a Book Break at noon May 20 in room 2D at George Memorial Library, 1001 Golfview in Richmond. Participants should bring a sack lunch to take part in a literary discussion of “Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly,” a debut novel written by Robert Dalby.
This light-hearted novel takes the reader on [...]
Fulshear Night Readers’ Guild To Discuss ‘The Help’ In May
20. May 2010
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The Fulshear Night Readers’ Guild will meet at 6:30 p.m. May 24 in the meeting room at Fort Bend County Libraries’ Bob Lutts Fulshear/Simonton Branch Library, 8100 FM 359 South in Fulshear, to discuss Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel, “The Help.”
This novel of social awakening is set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962. “Skeeter” Phelan has graduated [...]
Volunteer Fort Bend Looking For Medical Volunteers At Free Medical Clinic
17. May 2010
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Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations.
Here are some current needs:
Medical personnel needed
Family practitioners, nurse practitioners, RNs, LVNs, medical assistants, certified nurse assistants, phlebotomists, and physician assistants are needed at a free medical clinic for low-income residents of Fort Bend County. Weekly or biweekly three-hour [...]
Orchestra’s Last Performance Of The Season To Celebrate Spain
11. May 2010
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The Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra will hold España, a “musical celebration of Spain,” at 2 p.m. May 23 at the Stafford Centre, 10505 Cash Rd.
The concert, under the direction of Héctor Agüero, Jr., will feature famous works such as “Malagueña” and Manuel de Falla’s “Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2.” The orchestra will also perform [...]
Volunteer Fort Bend Needs Help For Domestic Abuse Victims, Art Instructors
10. May 2010
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Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations.
Here are some current needs:
Advocate for victims of abuse
Be an advocate for women victimized by domestic abuse. Volunteering with an organization that works to prevent violence against Asian women, you’ll help heal the hurt of past abuse and foster [...]
Volunteer Fort Bend Needs Help To Feed The Hungry, Pilots For Medical Transport
3. May 2010
Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations.
Here are some current needs:
Feed the hungry
Help box and distribute food for 400-500 people with a faith-based organization in Stafford that serves families in need. Groups and individuals of all ages are invited to help sort and box food [...]
Volunteers Needed To Help Fort Bend Area Nonprofits
26. April 2010
Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations.
Here are some current needs:
Brighten the lives of seniors
Delight homebound senior citizens with hot lunchtime meals and some friendly conversation. As a meal delivery volunteer for a United Way agency in Fort Bend County, you’ll be helping low-income seniors [...]
Women’s Health Symposium To Feature Mary Jo Rapini
22. April 2010
Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital will feature national speaker, author and psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini, LPC, at a free Women’s Health Symposium on May 1. Rapini will present the keynote, “How to Get Your Mojo Back,” to help baby boomers learn how to regain intimacy, even when children and menopause may interfere.
This health symposium is [...]
Lake Pointe Town Center Adds ‘My Fit Foods’
12. April 2010
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Planned Community Developers, Ltd. has announced the addition of My Fit Foods to the list of retailers in Lake Pointe Town Center, the mixed-use development at the northwest intersection of U.S. Highway 59 and State Highway 6 in Sugar Land.
My Fit Foods specializes in freshly prepared meals that can be purchased to go. In addition [...]
Volunteers Needed For Local Housing Program, Helping Child Abuse Victims
12. April 2010
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Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations.
Here are some current needs:
Administrative assistance
Apply your organizational skills in a local housing program designed to enable low-income families to achieve the American dream of home ownership. Your administrative know-how will be put to good use at a [...]
31. May 2010
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