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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 ...

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 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.

On Christmas Eve, CORPS volunteers headed to the George R. Brown Convention Center to help take part in the Citywide Club of Clubs Christmas Eve Feast. In addition to providing visitors with a delicious meal, the event was also divided into section designed to make the holidays a little brighter for those in need. With the economy in its dire conditions, organizers were expecting upwards of 40,000 people to attend. The event was divided into clothing sections for men, women ...

Share Your Blessings Adopt-A-Family This year Change Corps worked in conjunction with Catholic Charities as a sponsor organization for a family in need. Sometimes we forget how fortunate many of us are in comparison to our neighbors in need. This year CORPS sponsored a family of four, providing them with gifts to make their holiday season a little brighter. With the help of our members, we were able to provide gift baskets of hygiene products to all family members, as well ...

Change Corps - December Events Hey everyone. Just to give everyone an update on volunteer events that are taking place this month, here's a summary. All of these events can be viewed and signed up for by visiting the EVENTS section of the website. In addition, several are events that you can do from the comforts of your own home! How cool is that? (It's pretty cool) American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes Summary - The American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are ...

On Thanksgiving Day Change Corps was fortunate enough to take part in the 24th Annual Thanksgiving Superfeast. Hundreds of volunteers showed up to serve a delicious Thanksgiving meal to those in need, or those that just wanted some company on their Thanksgiving. Despite the warmer than usual weather, volunteers showed up in droves looking to lend help to their fellow Houstonians. This year's Superfeast was sponsored by Waste Management Inc, with help from Walmart. It ...

The Presidental campaign of President-Elect Barack Obama created more than a movement of individuals interested in working toward electing a political candidate to office, it created a movement of people thirsting for change where they live. More than that, it inspired millions of people to stand up and start taking part in their communities. That was the reason that the Obama Volunteer Corps began. We wanted to harness the tremendous energy of the campaign and be a part of a ...

CORPS participated in a clean-up of Olivewood Cemetery earlier this year. Olivewood contains the remains of some of Houston's first African American residents and some of the first freed slaves in our area. Over the last year, Olivewood has been caught up in a legal battle between two organizations attempting to gain control over the property. The organization that CORPS worked with earlier was 'The Descendants of Olivewood', a group made-up by actual descendants of the ...

On November 4, 2008, the voters of this country stood together and stated in a firm, unified voice that they wanted change. Senator Barack Obama won the general election and will become the next President of the United States of America. This enormous step forward for our country was not done by powerful lobbying organizations, it wasn't done by multi-millionaires looking out for their own self-interest, it wasn't done with the politics of fear and division - it was done by ...