"Hope and Change" Articles Search

A paying job opportunity with the American Federation of Teachers in Texas.

Change Your Diet and the Environment with a Home Garden! If you're a beginner vegetable gardener, remember this: It's better to be proud of a small garden than to be frustrated by a big one! One of the common errors for beginners is planting too much too soon and way more than anybody could eat or want. Unless you want to have zucchini taking up residence in your attic, plan carefully. Start small. The Very Basics Here are some very basic concepts on topics you'll want to explore further ...

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Issues 2010 Buyer's Guide Every year the Human Rights Campaign issues a buyer's guide, highlighting businesses and corporations that are banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In addition, these businesses provide benefits for GLBT employees and their families and do so publicly. The idea of the guide is to allow individual consumers to support businesses that support equality by doing business with those companies.  ...

Announcing Change Corps' first monthly recurring activity, the "Change Corps Sandwich Club" benefitting SEARCH.

Find out more about Stephen Costello, candidate for Houston City Council, At-Large Position 1.

Give A Day, Get A Disney Day HandsOn Network and Disney Parks are celebrating the power of volunteerism with a brand new program entitled “Give A Day, Get A Disney Day.” Individuals and families who give their time to help improve communities will receive a free one-day ticket to a Disney theme park. The goal is to engage one million volunteers in service in 2010. Here are the details: - Who is eligible: Residents in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico - How volunteers ...

Small Change - Shop Your Local Farmer's Market This month our small change is suggesting that you try shopping at your local farmer's market. The benefits of buying your food locally are multi-fold, from helping the local economy and small businesses, to offering your family the freshiest and most seasonal foods available. So why buy at a Farmer's Market? 1. Local food tastes better. It is fresher and has been ripened in the field rather than in a shipping ...

Noel Freeman offers Houston "Solutions, not Soundbytes" Houston City Council Candidate Noel Freeman, candidate for Houston City Council, At-Large Position 4, released a new campaign offering Houstonians solutions to some of the problems facing our city, rather than soundbytes with no substance behind them. The three public policy papers address Flooding and Drainage, Promoting Community Health Clinics and Giving Houstonians a greater voice on our City Council by allowing their ...

Candidates Who Care Candidate - Anna Eastman Running for - HISD Trustee District I website - www.annaeastmanforhisd.com I met Anna Eastman during the Democratic Primary last year. My neighborhood is the Houston Heights, and we were lucky enough to have an Obama office just around the corner from our house. Every time I would go into that office, I would see Anna Eastman. She was a fixture at that location and one of the hardest workers I have had the priviliege to ...

Houston's BARC - How you can help today! If you've been watching the news in Houston, you know that problems with Houston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control has been under fire for quite sometime. Animal rights activists have been fighting for the health and wellfare of the animals at BARC for years after mistreatment of the animals by employees and deplorable conditions at the facility. Recently there has been a big push by volunteers to help pick-up the slack at the ...

Change really does begin at home. On the Change Corps website we try to suggest small changes you can make in your life everyday that can have big results, so it's so refreshing to see the City of Houston stepping up and making a change that benefits not only its citizens but all of the planet's citizens as well. On July 1, 2009, Mayor Bill White announced that 32% of the City of Houston's total electricity load will be purchased entirely from wind energy! This is a 5% increase in ...

Candidate Who Care In November, Houstonians will go to the polls to cast their votes for a number of important offices for our City. The big race this year will be the election of our new Mayor, but there are also a number of important City Council races we need to be paying attention to as well. Change Corps was started after our members found inspiration in President Obama's message of making change where we live. And since this organization started by supporting a ...

Community Spotlight - Neighborhood Centers Inc. There are many terrific organizations in the Houston-area that are constantly working to make positive change for a broad range of communities. This month we highlight Neighborhood Centers Inc. Founded more than 100 years ago by a school teacher named Alice Graham Baker, Neighborhood Centers has existed in many variations, but the organization's overall mission has never changed. Today they have a network of 59 service sites whose ...

Change Corps Member Noel Freeman for Houston City Council, At-Large, Position 4 Join Leigh Hollins Mize and The Young Professionals for Noel Freeman for a Meet & Greet Fundraiser at the Corkscrew Wine Bar located at 1919 Washington Avenue, on June 18th from 5:30pm to 7pm. Change Corps has a particular interest in this race because Noel Freeman has been one of the founding members of Change Corps Houston. He has participated in every project we have undertaken and we know his ...

Change Corps honors members with Presidental Volunteer Service Award America has a long and proud tradition of volunteer service. Now more than ever, volunteers are renewing their commitment to helping others and making new connections that bring us closer together as families, as neighbors, as communities, and as a Nation. The President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation (the Council) was established in 2003 to recognize the valuable contributions volunteers are making in our ...

On Saturday, April 4, 2009, the Descendants of Olivewood hosted an event at Olivewood Cemetary to celebrate the designation of Texas Historic Cemetary. With an official historic marker from the State of Texas being unveiled, the event featured Houston Mayor Bill White, Houston Controller and Mayoral candidate Annise Parker and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. After a long court struggle to determine who would obtain guardianship of Olivewood Cemetary, the Descendants of ...

AIDS Walk Houston Join Change Corps for the 20th Annual AIDS Walk Houston, presented by Chevron, which is scheduled for Sunday, March 15, 2009. It is an exciting, non-competitive walk event that increases community awareness and educates Houstonians about HIV/AIDS. Proceeds from AIDS Walk Houston raises money for AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc., as well as many other local HIV/AIDS service organizations. We hope that Change Corps members will be able to come out and walk for this ...

Change Corps Member & Obama Volunteer Noel Freeman Runs for Houston City Council, At-Large, Position 4 Change Corps member and Obama volunteer Noel Freeman has announced his candidacy for Houston City Council, At-Large Position 4. Freeman was a founding member of the Obama Volunteer Corps as well as Change Corps Houston. He continues to participate in all of the volunteer events organized by Change Corps and has acted as the group's official Historian. Noel ...

National Day of Service MLK/Obama Mural Project celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. On Monday, January 19th, Change Corps partnered with the Independence Heights Redevelopment Council for the National Day of Service. To raise awareness for the Independence Heights Community Health Center (located at 4040 Yale St) our volunteers came together to create a mural honoring the legacy of Dr. King and celebrating the ...

In January Change Corps will be volunteering in the Independence Heights neighborhood of Houston, learn more about this historically significant neighborhood.