It’s time to vote for your favorite charity! Chevron has partnered with the Houston Marathon Foundation to celebrate and recognize the success of Chevron Houston Marathon’s Run for a Reason Program.
From December 19 – January 8, you can vote for your favorite Run for a Reason charity. (Limit one (1) vote per person.) On Sunday, January 13, Chevron will donate $50,000 to the charity that receives the most votes.
Houston Marathon 
Go Living Water International!!!!
Go Texas Center for the Missing….
Vote for Young Texans Against Cancer!
Done!! :) Best of luck YTAC!
I want to vote for that too. My daughter was diagnosed at 16. YOUNG TEXANS AGAINST CANCER!!!
Fight Cancer with Hope!! CanCare all the way!!
Thanks for your support Sammi!!!
Voted for Can Care!!! Amazing organization & people!!
Voted for National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Me too. October 2012 made it 20 years since I was diagnosed!
Me too….
Good luck!
Lupus is such an enigma. Lets find out what causes it!
Join me in voting for Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services, a 100-year-old ministry that gives healing and hope to more than 4,000 children and families in need. Many of the children we serve have been victims of sexual, physical or emotional abuse, neglect or abandonment. Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services surrounds these children with love and support, and give them hope for a better life.
A fine organization that shows great stewardship.
Let’s go Snowdrop!
Please vote for Child Advocates Inc. There are so many children who have no voice. Please help give them a voice!!!!!
I agree!!! Please vote for Child Advocates!! Child Advocates is training volunteers to speak up for abused children!!
My Vote goes to Sheltering Arms Senior Services! Such an an Amazing place the Elderly!
As a volunteer advocate for children, I know first hand how Child Advocates, Inc. can have such an impact on children in our area. Child Advocates mobilizes court appointed volunteers to break the vicious cycle of child abuse. We speak up for abused and neglected children who are lost in the system and guide them into safe environments where they can thrive.This is such a well run and caring charity. The actual tangible difference that it makes in the lives of such vulnerable young lives is amazing. I love being an advocate and hope that you will vote to make Child Advocates the #1 voted for charity.
Yes, please vote for Child Advocates. This is a wonderful organization. I have had the opportunity to volunteer on several occasions. It makes you feel so good to see the happiness on the children’s faces.
Rickie Peters
Yes, please vote for Child Advocates. This is a wonderful organization. I have had the opportunity to volunteer on several occasions. It makes you feel so good to see the happiness on the children’s faces.
Voted!
I am also a volunteer for Child Advocates and it is has been life changing for me. The Houston chapter is a well run organization that helps some of the most vulnerable children in our community. This organization gives abused and neglected children a voice and a future to break the cycle. I have woked with 8 children and I look forward to continuing the journey. Please vote for Child Advocates so we can continue to help these children see a brighter future!
I actually came to the site to vote for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership…but when I saw Child Advocates listed, I couldn’t vote for anyone else! Vote for kids!
what about cancer??? or all the other very good charities?? all you care about are snot nosed pissant kids???? screw the kids.
…and my vote goes to……Child Advocates!!! this organization is too important, sadly not everyone agreed, but that doesn’t really matter. I hope that CA can get the money so that more children will benefit for the amaizing work you do
To John Doe, yes, other organizations are just as important, but
Cancer charities are more well-known and therefore get more funding. Child-Advocates is less known and a great program that takes care of kids who come out abusive homes…most likely they are being protected from people like yourselve who value so little.
I’m all about the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!!!!
Thanks for your continued support of LLS Anne! Help us spread the word and we can make a real difference in lives of blood cancer patients.
Team in Training Rocks! I ran the Houston Marathon 5 years ago for myself alone and that’s exactly how I felt when I crossed the finish line…alone. This time I’m running for Leukemia and Lymphoma and WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT MAKES!!!!
Beth, we can not wait to cheer you on to the finish line!
Me too! Go Lymphomaniacs! I was thrilled to see this article about current LLS-sponsored research in the NYT last week: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/health/a-breakthrough-against-leukemia-using-altered-t-cells.html?_r=0
my son has duchenne muscular dystrophy an us mothers need this money more then anything to find a cure for our boys
That we do, my son also has DMD…please help our sons.
My son has DMD also, please help find our sons a cure!
My son also has DMD we def need this money…our babies need a cure…it isn’t fair for them to have to go thru this!!
Your kids wouldn’t be going through this if you hand’t opened your legs and had them now would they???
Can someone please censor/block this trolling idiot @John Doe.
I vote for the Lupus Foundation, it is very near and dear to my heart. My mom and myself both suffer from Lupus.
I too may be suffering from Lupus, I will be tested on the 15th to determine if the pain in my joints is because of Lupus. I support the Lupus Foundation!
I to voted for Lupus Foundation, my mother & a cousin has it.
yes we needed a cure 13 yrs ago, so the sooner we can find a cure means these young boys has a chance to live. I have a grandson 16, he needs your vote.
Vote for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Vote for the Epilepsy Foundation to give people hope for a bright future!
Both of my daughters have Epilepsy…Epilepsy Foundation of Texas gets our vote! :)
lost my son to epilepsy almost 6 yrs ago; epilepsy foundation gets my vote
I have 2 daughters with epilepsy and hope ths generous offer can help us learn how to better treat those who have to live with it.
I’m 36 years old and I have Epilepsy I had it when I was 13 year old and now my 16 year old has it and she had it when she was 6 years old she has them every day even on the meds and now I have to test my 9 year old case it strong in the women in my family so u have my vote
Please support the Epilepsy Foundation. They always get our vote!
Epilepsy Foundation of Texas gets my vote also!
I’m 38 years old. I’ve had epilepsy since I was 19. I geuss its been a perfect half of my life. I had meningitis when I was a baby. I live in N Dallas. EFTX gets my vote.
My grandson has Dravet Sysdrome it is a form of Epilepsy and the outcome is not good for these children we need a cure because these are gods angels
We do need something I had it for half my life all ready I had my first one when I was 13 year old I’m 36 now I have to take pills every day and it suck :-( but I have to my 16 year old daughter has know and that hit me hard she had brain surgery and that help with her drop Epilepsy but she has a thing with her eyes and she take 5 pills twice a day and she may not be alowed to drive but that’s ok she has the best grades in school and it her last year in high school I’m a proud mom even with the epilepsy
All voted! I’ve had Epilepsy for 27 years! Thankfully, it’s all under control. However, there are many people out there whose Epilepsy is not under control and we need to do more research to help them out!
I voted for the Epilepsy Foundation also. Started having seizures when I was 8 yrs. old
now I am 45. My Grand Mal seizures stopped with the help of a Vagal Nerve Stimulator.
That was the best decision I ever have made was to try it.I was in my early twenties
when my first VNS was implanted. It helped with my Petimal seizures too but, still
take one medicine for those.
My vote also went to Epilepsy Foundation! My 23-month-old daughter (turning 2 on the 13th) started having absence seizures when she was 11 months old. She has had two medication increases and they still seem to be getting worse. Hoping and praying for a solution!
Leukemia Lymphoma Society & their TNT – Team In Training! Now a 90% improvement in cure rate due to LLS! A wonderful Organization! Merry Christmas! Bountiful New Year!
Houston Area Parkinson Society! Go Team HAPS!
Ihave Parkinsons and hope you vote for our cause. It would really help those with Parkinsons.
My father passed away in 1996 from Parkinson’s disease, so I have joined you in your cause and voted for Houston Area Parkinson Society. I hope they find a cure soon. God Bless You!
PD – It’s not a sprint, It’s a marathon! See you all on the 12th!
My husband was recently diagnosed so in addition to HAPS we are now a 2 “cause” family – I have MS (23 yrs now) but he LoneStar Chapter is the largest MS 150 in the country and raises a boatload of money through it so I’m going with HAPS now….good luck!!!
Texas Gulf Coast Leukemia and Lymphoma Society gives back direct in our community for all cancer research
LLS all the way…!!!
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!!!!
My son also has Duchenne MD and I need him around for many years. Please vote for Parent Project Duchenne MD. Thank you.
ppmd please. please together lets cure duchenne. thank you
My 9 year old daughter has Type One diabetes. We support JDRF!
My 9 Year old Daughter also has Type 1, we voted for JDRF!
I have a 9-year-old daughter with Type 1 diabetes too. Go JDRF!
I have a 23 year old daughter who has lived with this horrible disease since she was 6 years old, taking up to 8 injections of insulin daily to stay alive and pricking her fingers more times than I can count. Please vote JDRF, it is time to cure this disease.
Hope this helps Kelly glad you are doing good
So fortunate to be running for Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services!!! Go PCHAS!!!!:))
My son has Duchenne muscular dystrophy VOTE PARENT PROJECT MD TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS AND GIVE THESE BOYS OUR SONS A FIGHTING CHANCE. TO LIVE A LONG LIFE
My vote goes to the Parish School who helped my son find his voice to communicate to us.
Go Snowdrop Foundation!!!
Voted for the National MS Society!
Help find ways to allow people to keep moving. I am grateful for the research they they have done and continue to do. Much progress has been made but we need to continue to look for ways to help those with MS.
God Bless the Houston SPCA
My family adopted from the Houston SPCA for my then 10 yr old son, that little black Lab/mix “Buddy” has improved my outlook on life !
Animals everywhere need our help, God bless them all this Christmas….
SPCA , thank you for your splendid mission !
Warm regards,
The Davis family
Brooks, Kathy,Jordan and his pal “Buddy”
good job i love the Houston Spca
The Houston SPCA ‘s compassion has helped so many animals that otherwise would continue to suffer and die. Their efforts are relentless. This service picks up the shattered lives of animals that incompatent human beings leave behind to suffer or die. They deserve all the support that can be given. All of gods creatures should never have to suffer and the Houston SPCA battles this daily. They give 100% of themselves to pick up the shattered pieces of animals that cruel humans leave behind. GOD BLESS THE HOUSTON SPCA AND THEIR STAFF. THANK YOU
Go Linda! I’m a volunteer at The Wildlife Center of Texas. Eileen
Voted for Houston SPCA…as a volunteer, I see what they do. Ditto to what Linda says!
Love, Love, Love the Houston SPCA! Without them I wouldn’t have my “Dogter” (doggie daughter) or my brand new cat that we adopted just this past weekend.
I have volunteered for both the Houston SPCA and the Wildlife Center of Texas…both are great organizations!!! You help one, you’re helping the other…Keep up the amazing work! P.S. I rescued a 8yr old, 3-legged dog just this past year from the SPCA…he now lives w/ my other 3 dogs and me…
Animal Planet – Houston SPCA program will show you the ‘real’ life of some of these poor animals, the way they have to live before they’re rescued by great people in the cruelty rescue division…then the vets take over, then the volunteers care for them until they get to go home to a ‘forever home’…It’s one Big happy family!
I give all respect to Houston SPCA for the care an love they have for animals,an the neglected ones,when humans just toss out like trash “A HIGH FIVE FOR HOUSTON SPCA”
thank you Houston SPCA
Voted for the SPCA, of course!!
Me too!
Me three !! I support my local shelter, too, and am involved in the Douglas County, Illinois, Hands 4 Paws organization. Animals need our support and our voice for them.
Me too!!!
My vote goes to Child Advocates! And amazing organization I have supported for over a decade and will continue to do so!!
Shannon Teasley
I vote for child advocates to Its a great organ.that helps look out for the welfare of. Children
Voted for SPCA, for Wildlife Center of Texas.
I voted for SPCA, Thanks a lot for your great job. Lidia.
Voted for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy!
Thank you!
Voted for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. RunForOurSons. Helping to fund medical research to END DUCHENNE.
Voted for the Houston SPCA – Help save the animals!!
I recognize all of the causes to be worthy of support. I cast my vote for humane care of our four legged friends who need a loving home.
Voted for the Houston SPCA!!
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital gets my vote!
Thank you Renee!!
Houston SPCA – Helped Louisiana and Texas during Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Issac. Please help those that help the helpless animals. Thank you!
You can not ever give too little – – Anything helps
This is why I first started to donate to the Houston SPCA, because of Katrina, bless you for being there for all of the animals is need!
I voted for the Houston SPCA . We really deserve i😃RMG
If you are an animal lover, you should not vote for the Houston SPCA. They are not what you think they are. The last time that they were honest with the public, they had a 65% KILL rate. http://www.nokillhouston.org/houston-kill-shelters/houston-spca/
In addition, many former employees and former volunteers have told me that before one of their big “rescues”, they kill a lot of animals to “make space”.
If you donate to a kill shelter like this, you could very well be buying the drugs they use to kill animals. If you want to save animals, find a No Kill shelter to support.
Amen! Well said
Voted for SPCA. those animals can not talk or defend themselves and they need our help.
Voted for SPCA. The men and women that do this JOB! Your AWSOME!!!!!!All the animals say THANK YOU!!!!!
National MS Society…
Go for Houston SPCA. Our animals cannot help themselves, it’s up to us to protect them.
S.Buckley
Houston SPCA all the way!!!
Houston SPCA! They help so many animals in horrible situations find a new home and a loving family.
Vote For Citizens (for) Animal Protection . C.A.P.
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CAPS is wonderful…I voted!
CAPS ALL THE WAY
Please vote for CAP they do wonderful things to help animals and educate the community regarding Spay and Neuter Programs as well as Feral Cat Days TNR program among so much more. A very needed and appreciated group in our community.
Please Support we are the Animals Voices.
Judy
We have adopted five pets from CAP over the past 27 years. This is a wonderful organization,
Vote CanCare! We are impacting the lives of cancer patients and their families everyday! Chevron, thanks for the opportunity.
I support Houston SPCA
http://www.nokillhouston.org/
Voted for the Houston SPCA. Some of the best people in the world. They stand up for the helpless.
http://www.nokillhouston.org/
Houston Center for Literacy – Because every child deserves a literate parent.
The HSPCA has given our family 3 wonderful additions, Rowdy, Skipper and Gracie Lucy-Loo. What would we do without them, thank you HSPCA for your love of animals!
I am a big proponent and fundraiser for the Snowdrop Foundation. Curing pediatric cancer is a must.
Help build a stronger Houston through literacy–vote for Houston Center for Literacy!
HOUSTON SPCA. Thanks for two wonderful additions to my family :-)
But they also kill animals. Not cool! CAP is a better choice.
The Houston SPCA proudly places 100% of our healthy, behaviorally sound canines and felines animals that are healthy and free of serious behavior issues – into loving new homes. No animal is ever euthanized at the Houston SPCA to make room for incoming animals.
The Houston SPCA is what is termed an “open door” shelter, meaning that we accept every animal that is brought to us. We feel that we serve the animals of our community best this way. Although the idea of becoming a no-kill shelter is certainly appealing, current reality in Houston is not that simple.
CAPS is also an “open-door shelter.”
Until these organizations receive more funds and more volunteers, the current reality of Houston being a “no-kill shelter area” will not happen. So give and volunteer time! If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem!
CAP had a 52% KILL rate the last time that they were open and honest with the public. http://www.nokillhouston.org/houston-kill-shelters/citizens-for-animal-protection/
Jolanta is right. Why would anyone give $50,000 to organizations that kill tens of thousands of healthy and treatable animals every year when alternatives exist?
Susan D’s comment is absolutely false. 1) The last time that the Houston SPCA was honest with the public, they had a 65% KILL rate. Conversely, there are now almost NINETY Open Admission shelters and animal controls across the US SAVING 90% tp 98% of ALL animals entering their doors i.e. including thousands that the HSPCA claims are not “healthy or behaviorally sound”. Many of the No Kill shelters stopped killing literally overnight. There was not a giant increase in funds or volunteers that came first. Saving lives came first. Those No Kill shelters stopped killing when the leadership decided to end killing and decided to work hard to make it happen. Obviously, this type of leadership does not exist at the Houston SPCA.
2) OF COURSE, the Houston SPCA is killing for space… and many, many other ridiculous reasons, if they have a 65% KILL rate. They just re-label the animals as “unadoptable” to try to make themselves look better to fool the public and donors.
With almost 90 Open Admission communities that have stopped killing, there is absolutely NO excuse that the Houston SPCA should still be killing animals. The Houston SPCA could stop killing if they wanted to. Likewise, they they “could” say no to intakes instead of killing animals for space.
http://www.nokillhouston.org/
All these charities are for good causes but we can only vote for one! While my heart goes to the unfortunates who need assistance and guidance, my admiration and appreciations go to all these worthy organizations and their aids for their dedications and excellent work.
It would be nice if the voting mechanism is embedded in this webpage. I would like to vote for the SPCA this time, but don’t know how to vote yet.
Please adopt your pets from animal rescue agencies and kindly keep them for good. Thank you.
V – the poll is embedded in the page. Which web browser are you using? Maybe that is the issue. (It works in Safari, Explorer, Chrome and Firefox)
Poll is using webdaddy which is filter out if user has a web tracking detection/filtering software (such as Ghostery)
I’m using Firefox and I just don’t see the “poll” button. Please post description and location of the “vote” or “poll” button. I tried clicking on different prompts the other day and got nothing. If it’s a pop-up, it’s going to be blocked and I won’t even see it. Or – thank you library! – I could try to use the computers in the library and see if it works. Thanks for the reply.
Voted. Thank you guys. Thank you Tito S. Good to know polldaddy is used in the polling.
Thanks, Tito. I never saw a poll either. Using Chrome on OS X with Ghostery.
Houston SPCA – Animals, like children are helpless against abusive people. They are God’s creation and don’t deserve to be neglected. Many others donate to childen organizations but don’t think animals matter. I donate to both children and animals because they both do matter.
http://www.nokillhouston.org/
I am so happy to be given the chance to vote for the Down Syndrome Association of Houston. Go go go DSAH!
Me too! They do awesome work! And my sweet little one is Miss April in the 2013 fund raising calendar!
Down Syndrome Association of Houston! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! So happy for the opportunity to vote for DSAH!
While I support any all charities, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is my favorite charity. I wish them all good luck!
Support the Houston SPCA. Help the little ones that can not help themselves! :) What a great cause!
http://www.nokillhouston.org/
Kathy F voted for Houston SPCA. A voice for those who have no voice–and who so need our help
My family has rescued numerous animals from the Houston SPCA that have brought us great joy. Help those abused and neglected that can’t speak for themselves.
Animals are also God’s creatures and should be treated with love and kindness. They are depending on us and we should do anything to help them.
http://www.nokillhouston.org/
I rescued a wonderful dog from the Houston SPCA. He has helped me get through some difficult times in my life and i love him dearly. The Houston SPCA is a wonderful organization that takes in abused and neglected animals and places them in homes where they give back so much love to their owners.. Please support the Houston SPCA.
http://www.nokillhouston.org/
The SPCA is a great organization providing a service for animals that, unfortunately, is greatly needed in the Houston area. Please support and adopt from the Houston SPCA.
Kathleen
Houston SPCA.Give a voice to those who have no voice.
Love the Houston SPCA!
GOD Bless the Houston SPCA! Let’s give a “voice” to all the animals that don’t have one. I LOVE the HSPCA~I only wish AZ had one.
Vote Houston Food Bank
Please vote for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. My 6-year-old has Duchenne MD and we are in a race against time to save his life.
I just voted for Houston Area Parkinson Society (HAPS}. Hope all my friend and family (and even some friends I haven’t met yet) will vote for this life-line that helps those battling with Parkinson Decease.
I just voted for Citizens For Animal Protection. The homeless animals need their forever homes as much as humans do so they deserve a second chance.
Bright Ihezue says:
Literacy is the foundation of education and must come first. Texas is behind in Literacy. Houston Litercy Council is helping tackle this important task. They need Texas and Houston support. Please vote for Houston Literacy Council.
Please vote for the National MS Society in order to create a world free of MS!
Vote for the Epilpesy Foundation we have 350 kids that need a Summer Camp experience in 2013!
Houston Area Parkinson Society does such a wonderful job helping people with Parkinson’s and supporting the families taking care of them.
PLEASE vote for SPCA! So many animals are abused, homeless, and Euthenized…they need our help!
These are all good causes but with your support we can stop further progression of multiple sclerosis, restore lost function and end MS from occurring in the future!
Thank You SPCA for your care of so many animals.
Thank you Elves & More “changing lives — One bike at a time!” gets mine
CAP (citizens for Animal Protection) accomplishes a much needed community service by taking in and placing homeless animals. They are the first helpless victims of an economic downturn.
Please Help the weak and voiceless this year!
I have adopted a few pets from here and love their new place. They really help animals!
Nancy Carmicheal
Please vote for better quality of human lives. Vote for Houston Area Parkinson Society. Please make HAPS HAPPY.
Please vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Both of my both have this disease and they are so close to a cure!
Also voted for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for my son with CF. Please support to find a cure for this terrible disease so others don’t have to suffer!
Cystic Fibrosis, one of the fastest growing deseases aflicting children around the globe today. Help stop this deadly desease before it stops us.
HSPCA Thank you for all you do
TK Foundation has help to raise the awareness about the need for lifesaving organ donation and in turn has given 100’s of Houstonians a second chance at life.
All great causes. CanCare was there for me personally…
Helping to make CF stand for Cure Found
I also voted for CF. My brother in law died after a failed transplant.
I voted for the SPCA – the care they give animals is not known by most people and financial help is given by even fewer. – PLEASE HELP.
Go Child Advocates, Inc…From Hotel Indigo at the Galleria
the spca does so much good for animals who cannot speak for themselves or have no advocates as many other organizations do..my vot is for the spca..
Love the spca
I love the SPCA, because I love the way they help animals!!
They kill some too!
Support the SPCA!
SPCA ……….because our doggies have no voice and can not fend for themselves. They do not hunt and we are there only hope. God bless!!
all my life long i adopted the unwanted animals – they can not help themselves – we are responsible for them – so i vote for the houston spca which is doing a great jo
Houston Area Parkinson Society is the only organization in our community that provides critical comprehensive programs free of charge that help people manage life with this incurable progressive, neurodegenerative disease that can affect the ability to walk, stand, speak or swallow…It provides a lifeline to thousands.
Because Neighborhood Centers transforming Communities for Good.
elves and more – 10,000 kids gots bikes this year not counting the previous 4 years. That is a huge number of kids that are effected. And these kids had to do something in school to earn these bikes. great concept to help young people improve and be ready for the future. Remember they are our future!!!!!!!
Too many animals are left to fend for themselves. what will those people do to other people.. let’s find homes for the poor animals and encourage sterilization so that there are less that aer ‘ditched’.
Great cause
My vote goes to Texas Center for the Missing. I am a mother of two and their knowledge and commitment with our children and their safety is impressive.
The family is the most important and basic fundamental structure that keeps us linked together in our immediate circle and within our society. When a family member is lost or missing that chain is broken. Thanks to the Texas Center of the Missing for doing your part to help keep families intact!
I vote for SPCA!
My grandmother just died of complications stemming from Lupus last week. We need to know more and understand this disease. Vote for the Lupus Foundation! Run for it too!!
I’m a former student of The Parish School and I love supporting them!!!!
Thank you Pink Ribbons Project…you have my vote!
Team Cystic Fibrosis!!!!!!!! The 2012 MArathon is only the beginning of my run, Jan 23 I’m on a 500 mile run to support!!!!!!
The dedicated staff at Citizens for Animal protection work extremely hard in their quest to find loving homes for abused and neglected animals. The need is overwhelming, the funds never enough. Let’s help them help those without a voice.
“Elves and More” is an incredibly worthwhile charity that benefits children. It gives them a reason to believe that maybe dreams really do come true…
As a former teacher of mathematics at Jeff Davis High School in Houston, I know how important is would have been if your Elves and More program had been in effect when I was teaching there. I have retired from teaching in another town, but the bike would have been the incentive many of my students would have really worked for. When returning to the campus recently, I visited with some of the students who had received a bike. They were so proud. Many had to really stuggle with keeping their grades up to qualify for this gift. Thanks for all you do to help so many in the Houston area.
vote for the CYSTSIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
Lets vote for cystic fibrosis. I would like to find the cure for my 6yr.grandson.
Covenant house rescues homeless kids !!
Vote for the Organization for Autism Research! This $50,000 could cover a full research study ($30,000) and also support the production of OAR’s current project, Understanding Autism: A Guide for Secondary Teachers DVD. This resource is set for completion this month and will be a SUCH an important tool for teachers and schools!
We are just beginning to understand autism and to make teachers and emergency responders aware of the differences and even gifts these special people have. But we need more understanding which only research can provide. I support you OAR and wish you well.
I love animals a lot, but I can’t vote for them because I have 2 autistic sons. So I voted for OAR. I want more people know about Autism. The autistic children will get better when everybody try to help them, specially the teachers and schools.
I was so fortunate to run with TNT to benefit Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!
Reach Unlimited ROCKS! Reach Unlimited provides services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Visit Reach’s website to learn more: http://www.reachunlimited.org
I voted for Snowdrop Foundation. Kevin Kline and Trish Kline go out of their way to make a difference for the kids at Texas Children’s Hospital.
I vote spca houston and make protection for all the animals. It need to really help with any animals. Please I pray for this spca houston help the animals I love yall! Go spca houston!
Please vote for Houston SPCA! They are the best, and every dollar is used right!
Please vote for the Houston SPCA. Animals need help too!
As a mom with a son who has Down syndrome, having reliable and up to date information plus having a person who has walked the walk is essential. And DSAH’s ED does just that and more. What started out over 30 years ago as a support only group is now a program driven non-profit. Your vote will assist the DSAH in continuing its mission.
I Support The Sunshine Kids Foundation, they do a lot for cancer survivor kids and their famlies. They are a great organization. I do admire and respect all the listed organization. Great Job everyone!!!
I don’t think I would be alive without the Sunshine Kids Foundation. I learned how to live and deal with cancer from the other Sunshine Kids. Meeting other kids who have the same illness and problems is a tremendous help to those who have cancer!
My neice Kaitlin Lynch is a National Spokes kid for SSK.
We will never forget the love & support they gave her while fighting her cancer. Go SSK!
Last year I volunteered to be a face painter at the child advocate event in Downtown Houston. Not knowing what to expect, I can tell you that it was an unbelievably awesome experience. Just to see the smiles on the kids faces and the look of amazement in their eyes, was worth every minute. As my son says…………..dad, ……that was off the chain!!!
Go Snowdrop… Good luck Kevin and Trish!
Sunshine Kids gets my vote.
David Clayton
Voted for SPCA!! And rescue your next best friend today! They will love you forever, unconditionally :)
Voted for Child Advocates since I’m a volunteer!
I voted for Neighborhood Centers,Inc.
Please help make CF stand for CURE FOUND!
all the charities are wonderful, but I voted for Child Advocates because children deserve to be safe and shown love & support!
Sunshine Kids is such a blessing for many. Good luck to all the charities.
I support HSPCA all the way but I truly believe every cause should win!
Child Advocates!
Child Advocates
SPCA all the way! For those that are not aware, the SPCA receives NO government assistance – they are solely supported on donations only. Please consider all that the SPCA does for the Houston and surrounding areas that could not be possible without the financial help that they constantly need. – And while you are at it, consider adopting your next family member from the SPCA.
I love animals and they are like Children they can not speak or defind them selves so they have to take abuse and wonder what did I do wrong it breaks my heart for animals and Children. I am torn…..SPCA does a great job they depend on Donations.
Voted for the National MS Society, we need a cure for MS now!
PCHAS does amazing work with families and children all over Texas!
NMSS received my vote. As a spouse and primary caregiver to a wonderful wife who has MS I would like to make sure that the advances in treatment and research don’t get stopped in their tracks. Thank you all for your support to help those affected by this debilitating disease.
The Down Syndrome Association of Houston (DSAH) supports, educates, advocates, and serves individuals with Down syndrome and their families throughout Greater Houston! DSAH is a great cause!
My owner voted for the HSPCA because I was adopted from there two years ago. She says there isn’t another cat like me anywhere on earth, whatever that means………..Yours truly, Harry Potter (the cat)
LLS, I run so that others will have the chance to do so in the future! Vote LLS!!!
My vote is for Reach Unlimited, where we support persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities to Live, Learn, and Earn. Visit Reach’s website to learn more: http://www.reachunlimited.org
Clean Water Saves Lives!
Vote for Avondale House. It is a great school for children with autism.
Voted for Avondale House! Our life wouldn’t be the same without AH! They are a wonderful school for children and adults with severe autism.
I voted for the TK Foundation……TK Foundation works to raise the awareness about the need for lifesaving organ donation and giving Houstonians a second chance at life.
This will buy bicycles for 1,000 students who have worked hard to improve their reading skills so they can succeed in school!!
Your vote for Child Advocates can change the life of a child and possibly an entire family. Child Advocates trains court appointed volunteers to speak up for abused children who are lost in the foster care system. I have been a “voice” for these kids for 4 years. Please vote for Child Advocates.
Vote for Reach Unlimited a facility for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to Live Learn and Earn… This will be my 4th Chevron Houston Marathon running for Reach Unlimited, “Got My Back”. cya on 13th of January. Check out their website. and vote for Reach Unlimited.
Vote for Child Advocates! They make a huge difference in abused and neglected children’s lives!
Asha for education! I love this!
Visit sunshinekids.org to read the kid’s letters on how the organization changes their lives. Bring tissues.
Please vote for the Lupus Foundation of America, Gulf Coast Chapter….we have to find a cure!
Help all the poor helpless animals
Please vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. CF is the most common genetic disease in the US. My daughter has CF, and we had never heard of it before she was diagnosed. CFF has been known to male every penny donated count! Please help cure this deadly disease! You can meet my daughter at Team Kare Bears in fb. Thank you for your support!!
LFA GC!
Let’s go child advocates!!!!!!
Help save America’s youth one at a times, vote for Covenant House.
Vote for a cure…Vote Cystic Fibrosis…a cure is nearer every day!
I vote for CFF because I am the mother of a 24 year old son and 28 year old daughteLIVING with CF. My daughter is a successful double lung transplant patient and my son is successful musician!
Go Lupus Foundation!
I feel very passionate about this cause due to my uncle’s remission! I want more people to experience this gift!
Help those who help others – vote for Parish School.
JDRF!! We support the cure for this devastating disease that is affecting so many children in record numbers.
Please vote for the Lupus Foundation of America, Texas Gulf Coast Chapter!!!!
Please vote for JDRF, we will continue to support the cure for this ugly disease!
I have a dear friend with a daughter with CFF & 2 of my of cousin’s children, please vote every dollar helps with complications that can arise with their condition.
JDRF is our number 1 charity. Diabetes care accounts for 10% of our country’s total medical spending. This organization’s focus on cure, prevention, and treatment has the potential to substantially reduce that cost while at the same time improving the lives of many children and adults with this disease. JDRF was rated by Forbes as a top charity organization in terms of its efficiency in putting donation dollars to work with minimal overhead costs.
Vote for the Lupus Foundation Texas Gulf Coast Chapter. All of us suffering with it truly appreciate it.
Voted for CF. Dear friend’s daughter was born with CF. She is 16 now and doing well but we still need many resources and research to enable CF patients to live a full long life without the many complications associated with this disease.
Please vote for Neuhaus Education Center.Our children needs professional educators and parents outstanding training.
Vote with your heart
Please vote for The Women’s Home. This organization does wonderful work and has helped many women rebuild their lives and reunite their families.
So many great causes to only choose one. Hope you win Neuhaus!
Go Epilepsy Foundation!
Thank you Houston SPCA, I voted with my heart and voted for you, God Bless you all.
Voted for Neuhaus Education Center. They truly care about our children’s future!
Go team Neuhaus!!!
Like Kevin McHale’s daughter – my sister died too young from Lupus. Lupus is a brutal killer and there is simply not enough research or education. Go Lupus Foundation!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote for the Lupus foundation, my daughter got diagnose at age of 20, and we would like to have her around for many years. This donation would help with the necessary research that is needed to fight..Go team Lupus.
Yay, Texas Center for the Missing, Amber Alerts and Internet safety!
Animal lovers! vote for CAP
Vote for Lupus Foundation. Lupus devestates those who have it. It has no cure. The current treatments are almost as devestating to patients. Until just recently, there hasn’t been a new treatment since the 1950’s. Help us find a cure. Someone I love has Lupus.
All of these are good organizations! I voted for Child Advocates as I’ve personally witnessed what a difference it can make in a child’s life. These Advocates have dedicated their lives to stand behind the children in this city who are helpless, and provide the voice for these children, ensuring they obtain every chance at a bright future regardless of their current situation. I can say I’m very proud of these individuals, as they do a job that most are unwilling or unable to do.
For all you Mothers out there fighting to keep your children healthy, stay strong!!!!! I pray for your courage to cary you through this tough time…I lost one battle.
Please VOTE for Parent Project Muscular Dstrophy(PPMD). To help them in finding a cure and curing Duchenne once in for all. I have lost two brothers to this disease and have a 10 year old son who is fighting this disease everyday and pray they find the cure in his life time, so please vote them!!!
please support education.ANA RAMIREZ
SPCA
Their strategies are outstanding and the training are very knowledgeable
This is a list of wonderful organizations that have a heart for others in desperate need. Each deserves our support. Personally, from experience, my heart is for the thirsty of the world. I have found an organization that provides for the most basic and essential of needs – clean water. The needs in this country are important, but the needs of the developing world are desperate. Clean water impacts every aspect of their lives. Education, health, sanitation, economics are all impacted by a cup of clean water. There is no other way in which I can make my dollar count more for those in need. Congratulations, Living Water International.
Been Volunteering at Bo’s Place for nearly 7 years. They are an awesome charity and fill a badly underserved and often overlooked need.
So true! All are so deserving and all are wonderful organizations. My vote goes for Bo’s Place – an incredible organization that helps so many during their darkest hours to find hope and happiness again and go on to share that with so many others.
thank you SPCA
Although I know other charities are doing great things, we are very proud of our organization and we know what they do
I suffer with Lupus; Go Lupus Foundation!!!!!!!!! We need your vote!!!!!
My family and myself have been affected by the deadly disease “cancer”, sickle cell and other castostrophic diseases and we definitely support the cause.
Neuhaus is a wonderful organization! They help children with dyslexia. Go Team Neuhaus!
Houston SPCA gets my vote! Abused, injured, abandoned animals have no one to help them but compassionate people. Volunteering your time as well as contributing financially can turn a scared, abandoned, starving animal into a loving, loyal family pet!
Please vote for Presbyterian Childrens Home and Services. The funds would help make a difference . PCHS and St. John’s Presyterian Church have partnered to build 2 four plex’s on our church campus to help Single Mom’s make a better life for themselves and thier children!
I wish I could vote for more than one , I had to choose SPCA , they do a great job.
So exciting to see so many charities involved in a great cause! I have invested a great amount of time in trainning at Neuhaus Education Center. Their program for Dyslexic Practitioners & Therapists is amazing! They are reaching so many children & adults to overcome reading difficulties, which we all know can lead to problems in all areas of life! Reading is a gift & Neuhaus is spreading this gift to people across our country by either helping people at their center or by training others to go out and build fluent readers! Thank you Neuhaus!
Voted for the National MS Society. As a person with MS I am very thankful for all of their resources and dedication to finding a cure. My son needs his mom to be able to be mobile and keep up with him.
Save our boy group fantastic
Child Advocates is working at turning the tide of familial dysfunction by giving “Voices” to abused children and providing a chance for families to heal and making a huge difference in our world. I choose to give my vote to Child Advocates, “heroes” of the abused.
I spent the summer in Houston this past year an I worked in the medical center for a hospital on the overnight shift. On my days off I volunteered at the Houston SPCA. I loved it and all the animals I got I help and spend time with. Go HSPCA!
Please vote for Citizens Animal Protection. I am a volunteer and a foster parent. They truly care about the animals. Many of these animals need a second chance and they make that happen. I wish I could vote more than one time, but because I can not please support the CAP.
Vote for Bo’s Place!!! It is a wonderful place that helps children through the grief process after losing a parent or sibling, as well as helping the parents through this most difficult time. It was a great place for me to go to for support after tragically losing my 6 year old daughter. I love Bo’s Place!!!!!!!
Hear! Hear! My family is deeply indebted to Bo’s Place. We attended group sessions regularly for several years after the tragic death of my wife more than a decade ago, and Bo’s Place helped us see the light at the end of the tunnel, and that life is still worth living to the full, even after such a disaster. My children were aged 10, 7 and 5 at the time. My middle son, Pedro, now 18, ran the Houston Marathon this year for Bo’s Place.
St.Jude is amazing !!!!!!!! Please vote for not only helping find cures and saving children but the knowledge St.Jude shares with ALL is so helpful to everyone around the world .
I voted for Bo’s Place. If you dont know Bo’s Place, they are a group dedicated to helping children cope with and recover from the death of an immediate family , such as a mother, father, sibling. They change the lives of children who are at great risk due to the tragedies they have faced. Please consider voting for them….
Vote for San Jose Clinic!!!
Bo’s Place is teh BEST!!!
Go San José Clinic!!!
Epilepsy Foundation Texas is doing a lot of great work! It is a joy to see all the kids at camp each year!
Go Child Advocates Inc.!!
Patti Keplinger supports Child Advocates, Inc. They do a great job but there is much more to do. So run, run for CAI.
Center Beechie Kampmann says that the Neuhaus Education Center does a remarkable job in saving individuals who would be lost through the cracks without the wonderful instruction provided by this organization.
The Sunshine Kids is truly a remarkable organization – providing love and care and lots of memorable moments for children going through cancer treatments. They make the best use of my donations!
please help to find the cure for Lupus, support the Lupus Foundation, God Bless
Right now with this world so unsettling child advocacy will make the different between success and failure of today’s youth
Vote for Bo Place
I am voting for Neighborhood Centers Inc. The amazing changes they make in the lives of Houstonians in need is truly remarkable. Don’t beleive me? Take a look for yourself. http://www.neighborhood-centers.org
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THANKS TO THE SPCA FOR THERE HARD WORK FOR THE ANIMALS.
The Parish School helps kids with fixable learning issues. These kids would otherwise fail and/or become outcasts. Getting these precious kids on track is hugely important for them, for their families, and for our society.
G.W. Bailey’s Sunshine Kids Foundation has touched so many children’s lives who have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses. This is an amazing charity that has been built with loving caring people trying to make a difference in the lives of terminally ill children. 100% Dependant on donations Sunshine Kids Foundation deserves your vote as well!
NCI has the broadest reach and the deepest impact of any non-profit in the Houston area.
I’m supporting Buffalo Bayou Partnership for a donation from Chevron because of the beauty BBP is bringing to everyone in Houston as they create new possibilities for parks and trails from Shepherd through downtown.
Run for the animals.
Buffalo Bayou Partnership has so many great initiatives underway for the transformation and revitalization of Buffalo Bayou, Houston’s greatest natural resource. Vote BBP!
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a great hospital for kids that are battling cancer and life treating illness. No Parents are ever persented with a bill. The treatment, housing, food, and the traveling is taking care of. And St. Jude is able to do this because of people world wide that supports them. It is 1.8 million dollars a day to run the hospital and most of that is coverd with contributions. So, that is why my vote goes to St. Jude. :)
The HSPCA does such a great job taking care of abused animals! I will continue to support them when I can. I hope that others will see just what these folks do when watching Animal Planet.
Memorial Park Conservancy has my vote. The trees we plant will live past our time here and shelter future generations of Texans and critters. But only if we help replant due to the devastation of the drought. Save the park!
Don’t let a child go hungry in 2013! Vote for the Houston Food Bank.
The Houston SPCA is my favorite charity organization. They take in not only dogs and cats but bears and donkeys. I even took a baby squirrel there. What a great organization!
Citizens for Animal Protection (CAP) needs your vote. It’s all about the animals!
i hope everybody enjoy this Christmas,big huge
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, located in Memphis, Tenn., is one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer research centers. Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other deadly diseases through research and treatment. During its nearly 50-year history, St. Jude pioneered the bench-to-bedside model in advancing the care and treatment of catastrophically ill children and developed groundbreaking protocols for providing outpatient pediatric cancer care. St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today.
• No family ever pays St. Jude for anything – Treatment, food, lodging and travel are provided free for the child and one parent.
• During the past five years, 81 cents of every dollar received has supported the research and treatment at St. Jude.
• St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
• Research findings at St. Jude are shared freely with doctors and scientists all over the world.
• The medical and scientific staff published more than 680 articles in academic journals in 2010, more than any other pediatric cancer research center in the United States. St. Jude’s researchers are published and cited more often in high impact publications than any other private pediatric oncology institution in America.
• St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today.
• In 1962, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer, was 4 percent. Today, the survival rate for this once deadly disease is 94 percent, thanks to research and treatment protocols developed at St. Jude.
• St. Jude was the first institution to produce a cure for sickle cell disease with a bone marrow transplant and has one of the largest pediatric sickle cell disease programs in the country.
• St. Jude was the first center to receive government approval for a unique transplant procedure that makes it possible for parents who are not exact matches to be bone marrow donors for their children.
• St. Jude was the first pediatric cancer research center to develop treatment that proved effective in raising the survival rate of patients with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid tumor in children, to more than 50 percent.
• St. Jude’s basic cancer research not only saves children, but also provides discoveries that are beneficial to the research and treatment of certain adult cancers.
HSPCA! You guys rock!! Keep up the great work, our furry friends need you!!!!! xxoo
Thank you Chevron… These are all really important organizations. We have a chance to do two things in this world; help realize potential, or help reduce unnecessary suffering. Nonprofits are devoted to these purposes …. I have devoted my life to working for everyone to have an opportunity to work for a better future. And I believe NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS does this best. FOR GOOD. Thanks to everyone who has given, supported, voted, or volunteered for any nonprofit.
I’m a big fan Angela!!!
Donna Rosette says:
December 20, 2012 @ 4:10pm
Susan G. Komen – Houston the best foundation in the world! GO PINK!!
All good causes and deserving help, but this is the time to remember the Cratchits in our midst.
YES PREPPPPP
Thank you Houston SPCA for helping the abused, neglegted and voiceless animals. They need our help now more then ever. Thank you and God bless!
Go PPMD!
I voted for The Houston SPCA
Vote for San Jose Clinic because they provide quality healthcare and education to those with limited access to such services in an environment which respects the dignity of each person every day of the year!!!!!!!
I voted for Chikd Advocates, for giving a voice to children who are innocent victims caught in the cycle of abuse and helping to find loving, safe and permanent homes for the kids they serve.
Bo’s place is a blessing to the entire family!
So many excellent choices, but I love their great work on our northern boundary in Neartown / Montrose. Let’s hear it for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership!!!
I have 4 rescue dogs (one from the SPCA) and 3 rescue cats. Cats own the house and let us and the dogs live here as long as I keep food and water dishes full, and their box clean!
The dogs are so great, different personalities, and found a forever home with us. Each. One arrive sick in different ways, had trouble trusting, and afraid to hope they found a home. Lucy, small shepherd mix, hated to go outside because she was afraid we would not. Let her back in. For a long time I had to stay in the yard with her then walk her back inside. Now she enjoys being out and knows I will always let her in. Molly was chained next door all winter with no house or shelter. When I had enough, I told the owner to give me the dog or I would report them to the SPCA. They said it would. Not be necessary—–they really have clout !!! They gave her to me with a statement I was now the owner of the dog. The other dogs also have sad tales, but are now happy and so are we. The SPCA rescues thousands of animals and I hope you will contact them when you decide to bring a pet into your family
Absolutely the Sunshine Kids!!!!
I voted for the epilepsy foundation of Texas. I have had epilepsy since I was 12 and only recently extensively researched it because I was ready to have an active voice in educating others, because epilepsy is the least researched neurological and medical disorder and yet more people die from epilepsy than cancer. And the fact we are not different from other people and don’t want to be discriminated against.
Adrienne, I am happy to read your post!! My daughter just started having seizures a year ago when she was 12 from absence and now the grand mal. I have been researching it trying to figure out if there is something I can do. I am trying fish oil and other things but it’s ony been a month. I have been reading more about how people do die from this disorder than most people realize. I hate to think that my baby is at risk with this. Keep strong!! I am happy that I found this foundation and hope that more like you will voice this to others, as I believe many do not know about epilepsy.
God Bless You and Merry Christmas!!
This is for my Momma Pheobe. I Live You.
Living Water International. Here’s two girls who voted for LWI also. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/little-sisters-big-hearts-incredible-charity-163316895.html
I vote for the Neuhaus Teacher Education Center. Their effect on the education of dyslexic individuals is far-reaching.
Please vote for Avondale House! They serve the autism population that even our school systems can’t serve. Individuals with severe autism from early childhood to adults. So much is needed to help our families and our children and they are one of the very few who do serve them well.
Epilepsy Foundation does great work!! I voted for them..
Way to go Bo’s Place!! You offer an amazing service to the Houston community and you would put the $50,000 donation to such wonderful use.
I would like to vote for the Epilepsy Foundation of Texas . I don’t know what I would do without this organization .
Go Child Advocates!!!!!!
Good luck Epilepsy Foundation of Texas!
Good luck Lupus Foundation!
Chevron should give all the foundations a big donation!
Please vote for CAP ~Citizend for Animal Protection~ we are a non-profit no kill animal shelter. I am a volunteer there and last weekend we adopted out 79 animals to forever homes…please help us help homeless animals find forever loving homes….Thank You!
Voting for the Child Advocates as these children need a voice to speak for them.
Sallyg
Voted!
Vote for CAP – Citizens for Animal Protection! “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of the whole human being.” – Abraham Lincoln
Help speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. Animals are God’s creatures too! Please vote for CAP – Citizens for Animal Protection!
Go Living Water International!!!
Go Living Water!!!
Lets vote for San Jose Clinic! ! ! !
No injustice takes more lives than a lack of clean water, and about 750 million need it to survive. And check this, only $1.00 gives clean water, or gives life, to a thirsty brother or sister for one full year. So, skip the dollar menu and save a life, literally.
Living Water International is an amazing ministry. Read about them: http://www.water.cc
Let’s go LUPUS! We need more awareness :)
Living Water International ALLTHE WAY!
Good luck CAP!
Bow Wow Wow! (H-SPCA)
Vote for “Down Syndrome Association of Houston” and help our programs for our kids and young adults.
Thanks!!!
Vote for the Sunshine Kids!! My beloved daughter got to go with them to Hawaii before she passed from cancer!! Sunshine kids rock!!!!! :)
Down Syndrome Association!
Always willing!!!!
let us be there voice
PDAP, all the way.
Please Vote For CAP they are the voice for animals in need. We appreciate what you do !
Vote CAP!!!
Go C.A.P.!!!
Vote for CAP….I did.
Please Vote for CAP -Citizens for Animal Protection. I got 2 “Fur Babies” from them in the past. They are awesome about protecting animals and have a caring heart. Plus they use their money wisely to make it stretch. This is a Houston based group that helps animals in need here locally. They don’t have a big national organization to back them.
GO NCI!!
Please Vote for CAP -Citizens for Animal Protection.
Go CAP
Brenda D.
I vote for CAP. All three of our cats came from there. They are great caring people.
My 13 year old daughter Meagan just started having Absence Seizures a year ago and it has since progressed to the Grand Mal seizures a month ago. My vote and all my friends and family’s votes go to the Epilepsy Foundation!! While I know all of these great causes are all equally deserving, I must vote for the one that is hitting home right now! I wish all of the foundations the best of luck in this contest and any other fundraiser to help support their cause!! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
Bo’s Place helped me and my daughter make it through a very difficult loss in our life. Bo’s Place taught us that everyone grieves differently and helped us find the strenght to carry on. The staff at Bo’s is amazing. I’m not sure what we would have done with out them.
I vote CAP. They are doing a great work.
Voted for CFF!!!
Vote for Best Buddies Texas! They are all such great kids!
Let’s support our fine friends with Muscular Dystrophy!
Vote for CAPS!!
Go CAP!
I voted St Jude!!! God bless any place who is as caring as them! They are Angels who help our children fight cancer and give them a second chance when no one else does. A vote for St Jude’s hospital is a vote to help giving a second chance regardless if a families ability to pay for all children who have been diagnosed with cancer and need help. My prayers go to all the charities but my vote was made based on which one touches not just my heart but those all over.
Please vote for the Down Syndrome Association of Houston!
Cade for President!!
TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THE ABUSE I HAVE SEEN TOO OFTEN
I have gotten two loving animals from CAP. Animals depend on the caring & generosity of people. They are helpless without us.hav
Thank you Reach Unlimited for all you do!!
Too many of us are suffering with this disease. It’s time we step out of the closet and bring more awareness to Parkinson’s. We have to help each other. Help support HAPS ! Go to the HAPS site and support our team, D&D Walkers for HAPS.
GO CAP! For the animals who so need our help. They are so often the forgotten ones.
Bringing a smile to a child is priceless. Giving a child one day to be normal is a gift that makes that doesn’t heave a price, but it should be a top priority.
The Houston Center for Literacy is an amazing organization!
I voted Houston SPCA. Dogs are truly a woman’s best friend. Got my late Dachshund there 15 1/2 years ago. He was the best dog anyone can ask for. He went to Dog’s Heaven in October, leaving a big empty hole in my heart.
To give these precious CFchildren and their families hope and joy!
I voted for Bo’s Place because they give so much comfort to siblings and families that are grieving for a sibling. This place is so important to the community and deserves to win!
Please vote for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. Jacob has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. We run for him and all the boys with DMD.
I’m a CAP lover !! I adopted 2 kittens 4 years ago and 2 puppies last year ! This organization provides a huge service to all of the unwanted animals that are looking for somebody to love them !!!! Adopt a new family member today !!!!!
My son has epilepsy they have my vote.
Lupus took my Daughter and left my Son without a Wife and their Son without a Mother. Let’s not let this happen to another family. Vote to make Lupus a terrible memory.
My daughter and I have Lupus we need more research to help stop this terrible deceased I support the Lupus foundation
My vote is for Lupus!!! I love my sister <3
My vote is forLupus, a deadly hard to understand and treat disease. I love my daughter!
This is for all who suffer from Epilepsy including there is not research for this disease
Life is a gift, give it!
VOTE FOR SPCA, I HAVE WITNESS THEM IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA WORKING DAY & NITE TO TRY AND RESCUE ALL THE PETS THEY COULD, ALSO
PUTTING THEIR OWN LIFE IN DNAGER TO SAVE THE ANIMALS.
we humans have taken the whole world and animals have no where to live or walk, and I admire this institute which try to bring some comfort to these citizens of this world
Run Sara Run.
My vote is for Citizens for Animal Protection ( CAP ) . This awesome organization gets NO funding except from fund raisers and donations–the ‘adoption fees’ come nowhere close to paying for what adopters receive when they open their hearts and homes to give a forever home to an animal . Houston has a HUGE problem with ‘stray dogs and cats’ ( MANY of whom were ‘dumped’/abandoned by their owners ), as well as an enormous number of abused and neglected animals: CAP does everything in its power to find loving homes for the animals in its care, and ‘speaking for those who have no voice’ .
Our son, Caleb, has been a patient at St. Jude for over 10 years. I cannot tell you the burden that was lifted from our shoulders the day we walked through the front doors and was told not to worry about a bill, just focus on saving our baby. God walks the halls of this amazing hospital. He was with us 10 years ago when he led us here, and he continues to hold us through the hard times, as St. Jude continues to fight for us.
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital (SJCRH) is the only Hope on Earth to children’s who are suffering with severe Catastrophic diseases and not to pay even one penny out of their pocket for all their expenses including treatment.
So Let’s vote for SJCRH!!
All wonderful causes! Pink Ribbons Project is my vote. They spend their funds in the Houston Area in service to those with breast cancer.
Voted for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy org. Their advocacy work as well as the research support is priceless for your DMD sons, that still stays without a cure.
Please vote for Parent Project Muscular Dytrophy to support finding an weapon against DMD, unmet need of our kids.
Thank You,
Grzegorz
All of these organizations are beautiful. However, I voted for the Lupus Foundation of America because my sister suffers from lupus. Lupus is often overlooked. Let’s educate our communities on the severity of Lupus.
I voted for CAP because of the wonderful care they give to all animals. I adopted my dog from CAP and it was one of the best desicions i ever made. Animals bring so much joy to our lives whether we are old or young, rich or poor, healthy or ill…they love us unconditionally. Let’s support the shelter for all they do.
Go Epilepsy Foundation. You do so much for people with epilepsy.
So many worthwhile choices. But I supported the Alzheimer’s Association because those afflicted with this disease did nothing to cause them to get it! They are innocent victims, as are their families. My boss’s mother has Alzheimer’s, my mother-in-law had it, and I pray that a preventative or a cure is found.
As home to the the world class MD Anderson Cancer center, the Houston area has first hand knowledge of the effects of cancer on a family that are beyond just the treatment and its side effects. Often a family loses their jobs, insurance, home, etc. as they fight this terrible disease. This is why I am begging for all to support the life-saving institution of St Jude Children’s Research Hospital where families face their greatest fear as their child fights for life against the most catastropic forms of childhood cancer. These families come to St Jude to receive cutting edge treatment therapies and without having to worry about the cost. St Jude takes care of the cost and the family’s necessities while they are in the midst of one of the greatest trials of their lives. St Jude is supported by donations so please give to St Jude so these faimilies can continue to have this life-changing option.
Our daughter runs races in support of leukemia lymphoma society. We vote for them. There are so many worthwhile causes, but we know so many people young and old who have been affected by this terrible disease in one form or another. Please help support them
Go Covenant House Texas.
I vote for Bo’a Place!!
St. Jude all the way. Help end childhood cancer FTK For The Kidd!!!
Child Advocates is in the business of protecting our future. Please show your support for Child Advocates and encourage your family and friends to do so.
Children are a blessing and indeed are our future. I love the lyrics to:
“Greatest Love Of All”
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has my vote always! My dear friend is there now as her 2 yr old is in the ICU fighting for his life from infants refractory leukemia & the effects treatment has had on his little organs. Good luck to all charities though.
Vote for St Jude, a wonderful hospital doing wonderful things.
Vote for St. Jude, help them end childhood cancer.
I voted for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy for our nephew whom we love with all our heart
Let’s go Houston.
Go St. Jude~!
The Buffalo Bayou Partnership has done an extradinary job of not only bringing attention to the Bayou as a natural urban area that can be restored to a urban gem, but they have also done an
exceptional job of creating an outreach program that not only informs the public about the importance of the bayouj but also hosts a year-round calendar of events to shoiwcase the bayou.
Great work folks!
I voted for 3A Bereavement Foundation. 3ABF is a wonderful organization that has done so much to help many grieving families in their time of need. 3A’s services range from financial assistance to a smile or a needed hug. Thank you 3A . . . Keep up the good work. You are needed.
All are great charities, but my vote is for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital !!!
Houston Area Parkinson’s Society is a great organization and has helped my husband and me immeasurably. We are so grateful!
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is unique because it not only treats children with catastrophic cancer free of charge it also shares it’s life saving research with the entire world.
What a wonderful way to support any of a number of wonderful charities! Great idea.
I agree, this is a great idea. They are all deserving, so people please don’t say that my charity is more deserving. Please vote and also try to make a donation of time or money to your charity.
I Hope you win because and helping the animals in the socity!
Feed the world through Houston Food Bank fighting to stop hunger .. loving and caring people volunteering to save lives…vote fir Houston Food Bank … yeah! Charlotte Chandler
Vote for St. Jude…it is the BEST pediatric oncology hospital in the world !
Please vote for St. Jude. I work for this wonderful organization. It is so good to see the happiness on the children’s faces and the peace that the parents have in coming here.
Please vote for St. Jude………who’s mission is to treat every child with cancer regardless of their ability to pay. Vote for the children!
Vote for St Jude…a great place to work and a great hospital for pediatric care!
Go Alzheimer’s Association
My daughter was hospitalized when she was 5 weeks old. We had no money for gas to travel back and forth and no money for food. Ronald McDonald House opened their doors-and their pantry to us and made our stay as comfortable as possible. I try to make it a point to give back to them when I can.
For anyone that has had a baby or child have to stay in the intensive care units at the hospital for an extended period of time (in our case 3 months) the Ronald McDonald House at Texas Children’s Hospital is a magical place. You are terrified for your child, sleep-deprived, and feeling the opposite of normal. The RMcD House provides privacy, beds to sleep on (when you actually stop fighting the urge to stay awake at all costs watching your child), it provides volunteers with warm hearts and sympathetic tones, and meals for people who forget to eat. This place is a beautiful charity and changes lives everyday. I will never be thankful enough for what this place represents and how smart of an idea this RMcD House is for suffering families with sick children. Please vote for this charity!!!
I voted for Citizens for Animal Protection.
Juana says
I voted for St. Jude so we can contiune finding that cure and saving the children
My vote is for 3ABereavement because, having lost a number of close family members, including a daughter, sister, brother & father, I understand on a personal level the need for these types of service. It helps to have acess to personal service from someone who genuinely cares. That would be the appropriate description for the founder, Michelle Lara. She embraces God’s purpose & vision for her life in a most profound way – by reaching out to grieving families with all of the heart, passion, and resources she can muster. I truly wish I could vote more than once.
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society all the way. As a thriver with CLL and daughter of a woman who was taken by Multiple Myeloma, LLS gets my vote (and my participation as a volunteer!)
My daughter has down syndrome. DSAH has my vote!
Betty C Holloman says:
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital all the way! I see the miracles each and everyday! Let’s all get together for St Jude!
Please vote for the Lupus Foundation. It is a devastating disease that affects millions of families. There is no known cause or cure. My mom died from it and I also have it. I’m praying my sons do not get it. Please help us.
Bering OMEGA SERVICES provides needed services to thousands of young people. it assist by supporting them in finding food, shelter, warm clothes, job finding assistance, and in general to try to get them off the streets into a safe place to become self sufficient productive community citizens of Houston.
Go Living Water International!!
Yes Prep!!
Please vote for Reach Unlimited, a growing community for adults with disabilities.
Please vote for CAP (Citizens for Animal Protection) They do such good works here!
Wonderful folks! “Bless the beasts..(sic) Give them shelter from the storm, Keep them safe, Keep them warm…..” (K. Carpenter, rip)
Houston Center for Literacy
Good luck 3 “A” Bereavement Foundation….
Please vote for child advocates!!! There are so many neglected and abused children out there with no voice. I am here to be their voice. Please join this cause today. I am a childhood trauma survivor so I know first hand what these children go through. They need us to CARE. Anyone who can, please become a CASA (court appointed special advocate) today. I am in the process of becoming one. Please join me!
My vote is for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The five-year survival rate for patients with leukemia has nearly quadrupled in the last 50 years thanks to the blood cancer research funded by LLS. However, there is a long way to go to find a cure. Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20. Cast you vote for LLS today, and together we can be part of a cure for blood cancers.
If I were allowed more than one vote, I’d vote for all of these causes because each is important to sustaining life. But, since I can only vote for one, my vote goes to Ronald McDonald House because it is the one which I know personally supported a young couple as their baby became a transplant recipient and also comforted the family when they lost their first born child.
I run marathons for charity in the U.S. and overseas. ‘Chevron Houston’ is one of my favorite marathons of all time for a few different reasons. a) It has a flat, super-fast course; b) The weather is typically quite good at racetime;and c) It is realtively easy to gain sponsorship to run this race for charity. I will be running the ‘Chevron Houston Marathon’ in 2013 on behalf of ‘United Way’; ‘Salvation Army’; ‘Bread for the World’; and ‘Cross International’. Good luck to everyone who will be running the race in 2013. God bless and God speed.
I voted for St. Judes they helped my nephew with his cancer
I have voted for 3 “A” because in a time when it is hard fund your medical needs it is good to know there is a foundation that will assist a family burying their loved ones.Most people do not think about the stress of burying a loved one without the needed funds until it happen. That is why this foundation is so importance.
I voted for Neighborhood Centers Inc. because I have seen the MAJOR far-reaching difference FOR GOOD that this non-profit has made to the Houston Community. Neighborhood Centers Inc has an intelligent, dynamic, and caring leader with integrity and vision. I know that any funds that go to Neighborhood Centers will be WELL SPENT for the good of Houston citizens: all cultures, all ages!!!!
My Niece has DS and I know this foundation helps her and my family with her needs tremendously!!
Vote for Houston SPCA !!!! Vote for the ones that can not speak for themselves !!!!
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Best of Luck to Neighborhood Ceners Inc all the way from Arkansas!
I have been a part of the care for my mom for seven years as she fights the demons of Dementia, Alzheimer’s. Hopefully, additional help will benefit the quality of life for victims of this condition. She is depressed, anxious, and sees odd things daily; therefore, she does not trust or listens to suggestions or recommendations that would affect her life of discomfort. We feel defeated because we have not been successful with comforting her through this journey.
Judith, believe me. You are having greater success than you’ll ever know. Your mom’s eyes and responses may not be able to be read as positive, but there’s deeper awareness and comfort that your love and care bring to her. Blessings and strength of body and spirit to your family. Sincerely, mimiRN
Wonderful causes all, but my vote is for Vanessa’s Big Heart Foundation! Yay T.M.!!
Please vote for the animals that cannot vote for themselves. They need a voice and the Houston SPCA can provide the voice. The Houston SPCA does great work for all animals. They really need the money.
I am voting for the CAP animals. All are worthy causes.
So many good charities but Houston SPCA gets my vote. Dedicated strongly to the animals that need help in Texas.
My vote is for the Houston SPCA!
98% of the charities receive milliions of dollars each year; however, charities which work with animals are on the bottom of the list. Please vote for the Houston SPCA or CAP – both perform miracles with little money.
Please help the animals of our community by voting for the S.P.C.A.
Please vote for the SPCA. Animals need a voice too.
Go Sunshine Kids!! Helping Kids with cancer smile and just be Kids again :)
Please, vote for SPCA!!!
I voted for SPCA all the way–Dolly Cyganski
So many great causes! WAY TO GO CHEVRON!
I voted for Houston SPCA
I voted for Houston SPCA all the way!
Go Spaulding For children! A tiny organization that does BIG things!
CAP! CAP! CAP! Been a volunteer for almost a year now. Wonderful people with wonderful hearts helping wonderful animals. I very much support the SPCA, but CAP is home<3
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital! No child should ever have to suffer this way and St. Jude’s does not turn anyone away based on cost!
These are all great. Please vote for something close to your heart. I am fond of St.Jude’s. Please take the time to vote. Thanks
Always in favor of children’s research. :)
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital!!! What a wonderful place!! Saving children all over the world with no cost to the families. They are a great cause.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital !!!
I vote St. Judes Hospital all the way . My husband and I are partners in hope and will continue to be as long as God allows . We love children and they need us .
Please vote for Neighborhood Centes Inc. People transforming communities for GOOD!
Let’s stop Childhood Cancer… St. Jude is our best hope!!
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, located in Memphis, Tenn., is one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer research centers. Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other deadly diseases through research and treatment. During its nearly 50-year history, St. Jude pioneered the bench-to-bedside model in advancing the care and treatment of catastrophically ill children and developed groundbreaking protocols for providing outpatient pediatric cancer care. St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today.
• No family ever pays St. Jude for anything – Treatment, food, lodging and travel are provided free for the child and one parent.
• During the past five years, 81 cents of every dollar received has supported the research and treatment at St. Jude.
• St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
• Research findings at St. Jude are shared freely with doctors and scientists all over the world.
• The medical and scientific staff published more than 680 articles in academic journals in 2010, more than any other pediatric cancer research center in the United States. St. Jude’s researchers are published and cited more often in high impact publications than any other private pediatric oncology institution in America.
• St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today.
• In 1962, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer, was 4 percent. Today, the survival rate for this once deadly disease is 94 percent, thanks to research and treatment protocols developed at St. Jude.
• St. Jude was the first institution to produce a cure for sickle cell disease with a bone marrow transplant and has one of the largest pediatric sickle cell disease programs in the country.
• St. Jude was the first center to receive government approval for a unique transplant procedure that makes it possible for parents who are not exact matches to be bone marrow donors for their children.
• St. Jude was the first pediatric cancer research center to develop treatment that proved effective in raising the survival rate of patients with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid tumor in children, to more than 50 percent.
• St. Jude’s basic cancer research not only saves children, but also provides discoveries that are beneficial to the research and treatment of certain adult cancers.
Child Advocates, INC.
Kathy Carter voted for Suzan G. Komen, Foundation
I vote for St. Jude
We Voted for St. Jude
I voted for Child Advocates
MY VOTE FOR ST. JUDE…. all the way. :-D
The SPCA is a unique charity. One of the only ones helping animals. They deserve to win please show your care for the abused and neglected animals with no voice to stand up for themselves. Please! They are counting on you!
Not a bad charity on that list!! But my Vote goes to The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I want to see some more awareness raised for this disease and a cure for my baby and all other living with this life threating genetic disease sometime in the near future.
I want to vote for the Houston SPCA! Because I want to save abused animals from death!
I voted for SPCA all the way!! I love dogs & cats & hate them to be without a home & someone taking care of them. Poor babe’s all of them!!
We love animals!
HSPCA adopt…. my vote goes to Houston SPCA
Go Juvenile Diabetes Association. Being a diabetic myself my heart goes out to all those young children who are battling this at such young ages.
There are definately some wonderful charities here! My vote is for the Houston SPCA! I volunteer there and it’s incredibly rewarding. This organization does such a wonderful job in caring for abandoned and abused animals. The care and comfort given there is priceless and this prize could do so much to continue their great work!
St. Jude!! :)
All extremely worthy causes. My vote is for Bering Omega Community Services.
Breast cancer survivors (I’m one!) have a lot to be grateful for. The staff and volunteers at Pink Ribbons Project understand survivors and provide much needed support of many kinds to them and their families. Sometimes that support is financial and sometimes it is inspirational, but it always comes from the heart at Pink Ribbons Project!
My gosh, everyone of these charities deserves my vote. Unfortunately, my husband died with Alzheimer’s disease so they will get my one vote.
SPCA is needed for those animals who cannot help themselves, whether being abandoned, or owners who can no longer care for them.
I would love to vote for all of them…..but I went with Susan G. Komen…….I am a breast cancer survivor. I race for the cure in Toledo Ohio. Thank you
St. Jude.
ST JUDE, FOR THE CHILDREN !!
I voted for St. Jude in honor of my 3 year old niece who is a St. Jude patient for life. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital gave her excellent care and saved her life when other hospitals were ready to give up on her. At St. Jude, families don’t have to pay for anything. Parents can focus completely on their child without having to worry about living expenses and medical bills. Along with their excellent care, they provide much needed HOPE. And for all that, I HOPE they win!!!
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive movement disorder, meaning that symptoms continue and worsen over time. Nearly one million people in the US are living with Parkinson’s disease. The cause is unknown, and although there is presently no cure, your vote will support research that benefits millions suffering from such kinds of neurological disorders,
including pets suffering from a neurological movement disorder. Please vote for HAPS where
dollars can help more.
Go team!
St. Jude does so much for so many and share their knowledge with the world. I voted for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Houston SPCA do an excellent job getting animals new homes – do please support them
St. Jude has my vote…..such a remarkable place, awesome staff and amazing miraculous works. My neice is a survivor of Neuroblastoma and a St. Jude LIFE patient. I’m forever grateful for all they do for every patient.
I vote houston spca..
St Jude has one goal, to save lives. And they do every single day.
St.Jude has my vote. My son was a patient at St.Jude. I only wish he would still be here. But they can help other kids. So help them. You never know when it might be your child or someone you know.
Casa!
Child’s advocate For all the horrific situations kids go through, this is a piece of hope for them.
I vote for the Epilepsy Foundation because my daughter and several family members have seizures. But all of these are good causes
The Epilepsy Foundation provides medicines to stop seizures for people who can’t afford these expensive medications, free camps for children with epilepsy who couldn’t go to camp otherwise, and job training for people who have seizures and their employers to help them be independent, in spite of having seizures.
My vote goes to the Epilepsy Foundation on Texas for my daughter who suffers with epilepsy. It really rang home for us when it was time for her to obtain a driver license. Epilepsy needs to be better understood, and hopefully eliminated.
I voted for Alzheimer’s Association so that we can all know one less person in our lives battling this disease. And to also pray for a cure to prevent Alzheimer’s altogether.
Linda B.
Vote to help the innocent animales!
Please donate for this org
All such worthwhile causes! I wish I could vote for all of them. I’m voting for Alzheimers Association. It’s sad to watch aged people, and some not so aged, revert back to childhood. They should be able to live with dignity and respect – and not forget their way back home. We urgently need a cure.
Leukemia Society will get my vote, but wish i could vote for most of these. LLS has helped my son in his time of need and heres to you LLS – and Team in Training (what a great group of friends I have made since August 2012.)
Abused children deserve top priority in all support programs, because they have no voice and no choice. My prayers always include children and animals, and that God will severly punish those who prey upon them.
In honor of my dad! Take it ALS Texas!
My vote is for The ALS Foundation…The ones I love may not see the cure but I pray none the less one will be found.
The ALS Association Texas Chapter is honored to be among the many worthwhile charities. We will continue to fight for ALS patients and their families and hope people will learn more about this horrific disease that takes the lives of people in Houston and across Texas. We appreciate your support and we appreciate all the support throughout the year. Thank you, Chevron, for creating this opportunity for worthwhile organizations like ours to benefit from your philanthropy. –David Chayer, Executive Director, The ALS Association Texas Chapter.
Thank you!! Unfortunately The ALS Association does not get the recognition that many of the other organizations do. A cure won’t be found in my lifetime, but hopefully one is not too far off.
I have voted for the ALS Association – I serve 250 pALSa dn they need this monetary support.
I also voted for ALS Association, as I have a 32 yr. old son living with this wretched disease!
Houston SPCA and the Wildlife Center of Texas help the animals that are injured or betrayed or have no one else to help them.
ALS runs in my family. I’m definitely voting for the ALS Association Texas Chapter!
I have lost 5 members of my family on my Dad’s side, including my Dad to ALS. No, my Mom has just been diagnosed. This organization is amazing and needs your support!
……..2 many good choices………..but I opted 4 SPCA………..
My vote went to The ALS Association Texas Chapter. My Mom passed away 4 weeks ago today from ALS. Almost one year after she was diagnosed. She was only 54 years old. Please vote! More awareness needs to be made for this horrible disease.
Vote with your heart . . . I voted for all the hard work that is done by the Houston SPCA
So many good choices and organizations, I’m glad to see so many people reply – no matter who you vote for, all these choices are winners
Go team Mae…
ALS, please.
Houston SPCA please !
A very close friend has ALS and we will lose him soon.We need a cure o others won’t lose a loved one. So others won ‘t die a slow, debilitating, death. Pelearse vote for ALS. Please.
We have familial ALS….that means that we can loose many members of our family. We already have lost 7 in my life time
I lost my husband to ALS and it is a horrific disease. I can’t imagine losing 7 family members to it. We must find a cure so that other families will not have to suffer.
to watch the person you love most in the world die of this horrific disease makes one soul break where it can never be repaired. bless all pals.
My husband has ALS. His initial symptoms begin two months after he retired from public school teaching. When an individual is diagnosed with ALS, it is a death sentence; most ALS patients die within 5 years of developing the disease. The ALS association has been a wonderful, helpful organization that has helped us in so many ways through this horrible disease. This association needs every dime that it can raise to find a cure to this incredibly horrible disease!
So many amazing charities working hard to improve the lives of people living in our community. Thank you Chevron for not only your financial contribution, but for helping to create more awareness of all of these fantastic organizations! My vote goes to the Epilepsy Foundation…leading the fight to stop seizures, find a cure and overcome the challenges created by epilepsy!
The Houston SPCA has given to us and now it’s time to give back
VETERANS ARE DYING AT A RATE 2 TO 1 OVER OTHER PEOPLE WITH ALS. PLEASE VOTE FOR ALS. I AM ONE OF THOSE VETS.
Houston SPCA WAY TO GO!!!
Proud employee of the Houston SPCA!
Bamos por Vannesas big heart!
Go Houston SPCA!!
Todos los que tenemos un gran corazon para amar y alludar a los ninos que tamvien tienen un hermoso y gran corazon , y nesesitan mantenerlo .VOTEMOS por ellos.””
Go vannesas big heart!!!!!!!!!!!!
SPCA!
Go! Go! Epilepsy Foundation
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All wonderful charities, my vote is for the SPCA. We need to learn animals are NOT disposable!
Each of these charities are worthy of a vote, but Ronald McDonald House got my vote. I’ve seen first hand how much it means to sick children and their families.
I voted for the best charity of all, The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. It is so near and dear to my heart. Help find a cure for cancer by voting for them so no one gets these horrible cancers like I did.
Go Houston SPCA
I’m voting for the Houston SPCA…my rescue group, True Hearts of Rottweiler Rescue, in Northern Illinois, was part of the rescue of the Texas 200 Rottweilers that were seized due to cruelty and neglect a couple of years ago.
Houston Area Parkinsons Society – Thanks for all you do!
Fred says: My vote is for the Epilepsy Foundation. Their work is phantastic
Each and every charity is deserving of the recognition a vote would bring. My vote went to the ALS. ALS has been shown to be more likely to occur to military veterans. As a veteran I would encourage all veterans to also give their vote to the ALS.
I GIVE TO A LOT OF THESE CHARITIES; THEY’RE ALL GREAT!! HAD TO VOTE FOR THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION!! I’VE HAD THE CONDITION SINCE I WAS A CHILD & OVER THE YEARS I’VE OBSERVED & EVEN BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE A PART OF MANY EVENTS!! GO EPILEPSY FOUNDATION!!!! :)
Vote YES Prep! Amazing, amazing system of schools that change the lifelong prospects for kids all over Houston.
Vote for CAP (Citizen for Animal Protection) and support helpless creatures!
VOTE ALS! You never know how horrible this disease is until someone close to you is diagnosed. There isn’t a cure and no medication to stop it’s progression.
Love you Vic, you are in my thoughts every day.
Vote for Snowdrop, they support childhood cancer survivors with scholarship programs, and cancer continue with research so they “will” survive one way or the other! Check them out at snowdropfoundation.org and decide yourself.
Vote St. Jude this wonderful research hospital cares for children everywhere and have made so many great contributions in the treatment cancers and other life threatening diseases. Continued prayer and love to the patients and staff. They are truly blessings from God.
too many great choices! I would vote for at least 10 of them, but Snowdrop Foundation is my choice because of all the work that Kevin and Trish Kline do for it. Their tirelessness in raising funds for their pediatric cancer patients is unrelenting and done all from the heart. Great folks doing an amazing job to help kids.
I love Bo’s place and what they do for grieving children and families.
I love what hspca is doing!!! It’s really hard to just pick one all of these organizations are doing such great things.
Houston SPCA………..they are the voice and savior for all of the unwanted, abused and neglected animals out there.
I VOTE FOR THE HOUSTON SPCA!
VOTE – Cystic Fibrosis Foundation! WOOT WOOT
Great program!
Parish School in Houston gets my vote hands down! An amazing environment for Autisic spectrum kids. A nuturing, smart staff of teachers and administrators make it a rich environment for learning. They produce great results and very happy children.
Bo’s Place ROCKS!
I voted for the ALS Association. A disease that took my mother from me. This is a horrible way to die and the association does so much for patients and they need so much help, as does this association. This run will bring the needed money and attention to the ALS Association. God bless you all, the needs are great for all charities.
Vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation! My daughter suffers from this terrible disease, along with many others who don’t even make it past childhood. It can affect every organ in the body, We need a cure now!!
Amen1
Please vote The Parish School – so many children are in need of special help. This school provides our children with all the special attention, knowledge, understanding and growth to help them succeed in this world. They helped a family member very close to me and I hold The Parish School deeply in my heart!
I want to support The Parish School.
Last spring marked the end of my 5 year remission of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and my realization of being cured. I reached this milestone because of the research that the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has funded which has led to many life-saving treatments for blood cancers. Won’t it be a great day when everyone who is diagnosed with cancer hears those great words “you’re cured”. Visit their site and read of their accomplishments in the fight against cancer.
my vote goes out to cystic fibrosis so that my 3yr old nephew has a fighting chance to reach my age (24)… CF sufferers are born with their terminal disease and do not live very long (usually not even to young adulthood). There is no cure for CF and due to it being defective gene(s) passed along to a child by both biological parents, there may never be one. Every time i see my nephew it is hard to believe that he is even sick because of how CF kills the body. Raising awareness can save the lives of these precious babies :)
I vote for CF too. My niece was born with this disease, and she is 7 now. Please make fight for CF- Cure Found ;)
Go Cancare! Such an amazing organization!! Keep up the good work!!!!!!
Please Vote For The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, My Great Grand Daughter Was Born With This As as Many Other Children Have. And Did Not Have A Chance For A Normal Life. We Need A Cure For This. Please
Snowdrop Foundation is dedicated to assisting patients and families at Texas Children’s Cancer Center through funding for continued research to eliminate childhood cancer and scholarships for college bound pediatric cancer patients and survivors.
Vote for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and give kids a chance to breathe
Go Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – Lets make CF stand for “CURE FOUND”!
Please vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Havimg two out of three of my sons who have cf, it is a very personal cause. We need more people educated aboit this terminal illness! More education would lead to more funding which leads to more research!!! Help save some lives or prolong some lives!!!
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease which, not so long ago, would claim young lives before they even got the chance to go to school. Progress in the treatment of CF and the search for a cure has come leaps and bounds thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
My 6 year daughter has Cystic Fibrosis – Every day I see the benefits to her that have been made possible by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. VOTE FOR THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION! :)
Supporting the Lupus Foundation of America. It’s personal.
Cystic Fibrosis! I did a college paper about this disease. There are many, But My vote undoubtedly ends here! I have a very lovely friend whose Niece is the cutest little flower and bundle of hope! She needs your support! Cystic fibrosis is a disease passed down through families that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs, digestive tract, and other areas of the body. It is one of the most common chronic lung diseases in children and young adults. It is a life-threatening disorder. Vote for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
I vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation because my youngest son has CF, and we need all the help we can get in trying to find a cure, or any treatments that can extend the life of my child and others like him!
My Granddaughter was recently diagnoised with Cystic Fibrosis. There are many children and adults who need your support. Cystic Fibrosis is a life threatening disease that a cure needs to be found. Please vote for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Please” VOTE FOR THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION” I lost my only son to this horrible disease,and I want to see a cure in my life time so no more children have to struggle to breath and take enzyemes to digest their food. Please help these kids live a full life….
go Buffalo Bayou Partnership!
I wrote a college paper about cystic Fibrosis! I never knew anyone close to me that is affected. Until I met Angela Zell. Her sister and Niece are suffering from it! So Today my vote ends with the Cystic fibrosis foundation. Whens the last time we’ve supported this cause?
ABOUT:
Most children with cystic fibrosis are fairly healthy until they reach adulthood. They are able to participate in most activities and should be able to attend school. Many young adults with cystic fibrosis finish college or find employment.
Lung disease eventually worsens to the point where the person is disabled. Today, the average life span for people with CF who live to adulthood is approximately 37 years, a dramatic increase over the last three decades.
Death is usually caused by lung complications.
Thanks Ni! Lots of love sent your way to such a beauty inside as well as out!
Epilepsy Foundation of Texas FTW!
Supporting the Lupus Foundation Texas Gulf Coast Chapter. Thanks for helping to spread awareness to this #CruelMystery
Please support ALS we need to find a cure!
Genetic research being done to find a cure to CF is producing amazing results that will not only benefit families afflicted with CF but also other genetic diseases. My 11 year old son has CF and struggles constantly. He’s very excited that someday he’ll be able to do the things so many of us take for granted. I seen that someone posted about the average survival age being 37. Actually it’s that half of the kids will make it to age 37. Please consider Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as a beneficiary of your generosity. Every little bit helps.
I lost my 22 year old daughter to CF last year. It’s a mean disease that slowly takes your breath away. I say we vote for the kids. Alot of diseases are tough but ones that attach our kids and keep them from having a full life deserve our vote.
GO RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON!!!!
GO RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON !!!
American Heart Association
The ALS Association helps people who are living with the greatest challenges today. Please vote to help the ALS Association Texas Chapter today.
There are so many wonderful and worthy organizations. It has to be OAR for my son Andrew! Good Luck OAR!
Let’s make CF stand for Cure Found! Vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and save my baby and all the other kids and young adults out there with this horrible disease!
I voted for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation because my 2 1/2 year old grandson has CF and I don’t want to outlive him. There is no government funding for CF research like is there for so many other diseases so every dollar counts even more! Let’s make CF stand for Cure Found!
I have voted for ALS association as my beautiful mum died of this disease in 2011 and every penny is needed for research so a cure can finally be found in our life times!
We need to know what causes lupus!
I voted for an organization that has personally helped our family overcome obstacles associated with autism- thank you OAR
Truly a great cause.
I voted for CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION. Over the past few years we have mafe leaps and bounds in the medical field to fjnd a cure for CF. Money buys science and we need all the science we can get.
I voted for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!
I Voted St Jude Childrens Research Hospital!!!! Have worked for this cause for many years
Have known may children that have been Blessed to be treated there.
I did as well. Those sweet kids, it breaks my heart to hear their stories. They are so strong. Bless them
My mom passed away from heart assoc. and she put mace packer twice a and not long. Dr say 20 years. But not long. She died. I want support heart for them as my mom.
I voted for cystic fibrosis for my 9 month old baby boy
My 6 month old son has cystic fibrosis. Please vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to help continue research to find a cure for this terrible disease.
Please vote for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. We love precious lives everyday from this disease. We need to find a cure! The foundation isn’t governmentally funded so all the extra money helps. I’m voting in honor of my son Asher who was born with CF and has fought so hard this past year.
voted for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. My daughter passed away from this horrible disease at the age of 17 in 1994. Hoping for a cure so no other family has to go through this.
Diane, I am so sorry for your lost. My Granddaughter who was born in August of 2012 was recently diagnoised with CF…I am trying to be strong for my daughter but it can be hard at times and hard to know what to say…Any words of advice ….Nancy Livingood
Lupus is a tricky disease. I have had it since 2003. Research money would be awesome.
My vote is for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in honor of Dalton Dingus!! I hope and pray that this may help find a cure to CF. We love you Dalton, you are a true fighter!!
With so many wonderfully deserving Charities (bless their hearts) this was a tough vote. In the end I went this St. Jude’s Children Hospital. Not that the other charities deserve any less however. I hope whatever charity gets it that it helps many many people!!!
I voted for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I have Cystic Fibrosis and would love to see a cure in my lifetime!
DSAH!!
Lynda says:
Jan 4 2013 7:54
I have Lou Gehrig’s Disease. I would love to have cure in my lifetime.
I voted for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!! For all the ones who have it and because of special little boy Dalton Dingus!! {:
There are SO many worthwhile organizations listed. My vote is for the Houston Food Bank but I love knowing that the funds will truly make a difference at any of these wonderful places. God bless HOUSTON; what a great place to live, filled with so many who care!
Because they are homeless, not nameless. You can do it Don Hall!!!
Vote for SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES!!!
Please help our children live my son is 23 awaiting a double lung transplant. .he lost to many friends in 2013..please vote for cystic fibrosis foundation
I voted for Cystic Fibrosis to help find a cure in honor of my beautiful 3 yr. old granddaughter Hope. We pray for her to live a long life filled with love and laughter! Please vote CFF!!
So many deserve to win, gotta vote with my heart for Epilepsy Foundation of Texas.
My vote is for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in honor of my two grand-children, Alex and Harper.
Houston Food Bank #1
Kevin Kline & the snowdrop foundation are amazing! Thank god for this organization-SO INSPIRING!!!
Go Organization for Autism Research (OAR) !!! … helping those with autism and their families through applied research!!
Vanessa’s Big Heart Foundation
houston food bank an absolute provider to the community of what keeps us alive
CF is lifelong, you’re born with it. if you DON’T get treatment early, you’re prospects are SLIM. It CAN be cured soon.. IF it gets funding. Science is so close. Wipe this one off the board to focus on others. Hundreds of thousands across the globe NEED this.
Agree! :)
No parent deserves to see their child suffering because of cancer!!! Every little angle deserves to live a beautiful life full of joy, happiness, and magical wonders.
My vote goes for St. JUDE Hospitals because i know and believe that’s if my kids were going through a ruff time they would help!!!!
I VOTED FOR CF BECAUSE OF DALTON DINGUS. HE IS FIGHTING A HARD BATTLE. GOD BLESS YOU DALTON. LOTS OF LOVE AND STILL SENDING UP PRAYERS FOR YOU.
Go Organization for Autism Research!
Stop hunger and vote for thr Houston Food Bank,
Joe Valenzano President and CEO of Exceptional Parent Magazine says a vote for the Organization for Autism Research is a statement of purpose: to help find the underlying causes of autism in all its forms and to help families cope with the challenges ofdealing with thispuzzling and difficult condition that has perplexed so many for so long. OAR has always been there for families dealing with this pervasive issue facing our nation and their staff are truly didicated to quality research and help which, by the way, extends for our military families struggling not just with the spectrum of ASD’s but with the added challenges of frequent and extended deployments and transitions. OAR and their professionalism helps keep a proper focus on this issue.
Thank you to everyone who voted for CF!
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy ….. thanks to everyone who voted!
The Parish School has helped so many children succeed who may have fallen through the cracks in a public school situation. I have been privileged to see children come into The Parish School and watch them learn how to advocate for themselves. Many of our graduates have gone on to successful careers and all have gone on to reach beyond what they thought they could do. Please vote for The Parish School and help a child become a contributing, successful citizen in our society.
Making a difference in a child’s life – everyday !
The Parrish School Rocks !
humans are responsible not only for themselves – but also for the other memebers that live on this planet. those members do not have a lobby in washington nor can other humans make a big profit … so i am in full support of the houston spca.
I’m votingpfor the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. As a carrier of CF and having a son that is a carrier of CF we support Cystic Fibrosis Awareness and the foundatiin to find better treatments for this grnetic pulmonary disease.
Vote for SEARCH!!
Please vote for the ALS Texas chapter! My sister and other patients who literally have a 5 year death sentence with NO life-saving treatments available could use these funds! There are so many waiting for a cure. Thank you!!
I vote for ALS Texas chapter!!
My vote goes to the Houston SPCA ,hope to win!
I vote for the ALS Texas Chapter…
Kevin Kline and the snowdrop foundation are amazing!
I voted for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in honor of my sister, Cassie. She was just able to blow out 30 candles on her bday cake because of the progress made by the CFF. PLEASE consider voting for them – a cure is SO CLOSE & they rely solely on donor generosity to continue research.
Agree totally with you Angie!!
Vote for OAR. Autism research is needed for kids and adults.
please vote for cystic fibrosis foundation. help find a cure
EPELPISY OF HOUSTON THANKS CHRISTINE
Thank you for all who are helping out & involved!
Being someone who has had friends that had to use Ronald McDonald house I know how wonderful this charity is, and they definitely get my vote!
Listo !!! Suerte a todos
My is vote for Cystic Fibrosis. My sweet baby Jay (9 months) has CF. Please help us find a cure for our babies!
“No child should die in the dawn of life.” Vote for St. Jude!
These are all worthy causes, but I voted for the Houston SPCA and hope you will, too.
Vote for the SPCA! They have no voice but the SPCA gives them a second chance! They can’t do it without our help and support!
Another great cause!
Voted for OAR!! My 2 1/2 year old is autistic,
Vote for OAR! Autism needs more research funding.
I had a friend die of cystic fibrosis a few days before her 30th birthday. Her goal in life was to have a child and live to be 30. She did have a beautiful little girl who looks just like her. She is a blessing and a great reminder to us all of her wonderful mother.
Please vote. We all matter. Cystic fibrosis got mine.
I am a cancer survivor and I know how difucult it was not only for me but for my wife and kids. No parent deserves to see their child suffering because of cancer!!!
My vote goes for St. JUDE Hospitals because if my kids were going through a ruff time they would be there to help!!!!
Every little one deserves to live a beautiful life full of joy and happiness.
Voting for the #1 genetic killing disease -Cystic Fibrosis.
For both my boys and all my extended Cf family i”ve gained.
For fighting this disease daily for my eldest son Saxon (4yrs).
And in memory of my youngest son Baden.
Baden lost his fight early in life from complications from having CF.
But we know our Little Warrior is fighting hard for his older brother,after gaining his angel wings.
I was raised thinking a parent should pass before their child.But unfortunately have realized differently with this disease.
And with no government support.The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation rely on private donations.And money from the Great Strides walk.To further research for this disease.
Breathe Easy Baden Scot,Breathe Easy. Daddy loves you.
Have faith,hope and love.
thanks , chevron
Im voting for those who cant vote for themselves SPCA Please help them too!!!!
Houston Area Parkinson Society! Go Team HAPS!
Say “yes” to Pink Ribbons Project!
Mine goes for oar, I have a autistic son and would love to find some help
VOTE FOR YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS!! :) I am an alumni. YES prep puts in a lot of work to make their students very successful. I am an undergrad student ready to graduate Fall 2013! :) It would not be possible if it were not for YES :). Vote for YES!
San Jose Clinic. You see, this organization takes care of the legions of uninsured and under-insured in Houston. And no, these are not welfare queens. These are hard-working Texans, many working for big companies who do not get insurance.
My vote goes to the Lupus Foundation. Why??? It’s the least fund, least publicized, and most in need of additional funding. Nearly 90% of lupus patients between ages 15 to 45 are women and African-American women are three times more likely to get lupus than white women. The last “New Lupus Drug” came out in the 1950’s!!!!!
Go Living Water International! Honestly though all these charities are awesome. Thank you to Chevron and Houston Marathon Foundation for the donation.
3ABF provides much needed Bereavement Assistance to the poor in Houston for Funeral and counseling services. Thank You for your great work ! Thanks to Chevron and the Houston Marathon Foundation for providing funds to assist the small charities!
My vote is for Down Syndrome Association of Houston…..THE MOST LOVING AND WONDERFUL CHILDREN IN THE WORLD.
I vote for the epilepsy foundation. They provide medical coverage for patients who can’t get insurance from other companies.
Type 1 Diabetes is a daily lifetime of insulin injections please consider help these very young childern. JDRF
I voted for Escape Family Resource Center for all the work they do to educate parents in the prevention of child abuse. God Bless Escape!
LLS and Snowdrop are amazing life saving foundations:). We have been blessed to have been associated with them.
I voted!
Upon the path of the just, the foot cannot stumble.
Ronald McDonald House Rocks!!!
Yo vote por ESCAPE Recursos para la Familia por que evitar el abuso infantil es tener un futuro de EXITO en la comunidad.
Vote for Escape! Having seen the incredible growth of this organization, the need is obviously huge and the benefits of Edcape’s work touch every one of us The worthy organizations on this list will ultimately all benefit from people making healthier, more compassionate decisions in their
families. They become reaponsible members of our community and world and the proverbial ripples are manyfold.
I have supported Sunshine Kids for many years. Children with cancer with our help get to be kids and wishes do come true. Great organization that gives lots of love.
Yippee
All you have to do is spend one day with the Sunshine Kids and you would vote no other way….
Loving. Grateful, Kind, Generous and about as cute and fun as a barrel of monkeys….
I voted for ESCAPE Family Resource Center …..Russ W.
St.Jude
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital!!!
ALS Texas Chapter
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital!!
IM A ST JUDE PATIENT, WITHOUT THEM I WOULDNT BE ALIVE. I STARTED THEIR IN 1993 WHEN THERE WAS ONLY ONE BUILDING, NO PARKING GARAGE EITHER. I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAYS SPENT THERE: FULL OF LAUGHS, GOOD TIMES, ALONG WITH A LOT OF TEARS.
WHEN I WENT BALD I HAD KEITH DRAW A GOOFY ON MY HEAD, I NEVER WORE HATS SO I COULD SHOW MEMPHIS THE ART WORK AND SHOW HOW STRONG US KIDS CAN BE AT ST. JUDE. TO THIS DAY I STILL CAN SPIT OUT MY PATIENT NUMBER WITHOUT THINKING 12859 :)
I HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS TO THIS DAY, BUT IVE LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE AND OTHER KIDS AT ST. JUDE WHAT MAKES U WEAK WILL ONLY MAKE U STRONGER IN THE END. I HAVE OVER COME TOO MUCH TO GIVE IN, SO NOW IM AS STRONG AS EVER AND GETTING OUT IN THE WORLD :)
I NOW DO ALL TYPES OF ART FOR PEOPLE AND ENJOY SEEING OTHERS SMILE :)
ALSO HAVE BEEN APART OF MANY FUNDRAISERS, SPEECHES, EVENTS FOR ST JUDE TO HELP RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS TO OTHERS
I AM ON FACEBOOK.
Thanks for all you do for our kids
The Parish School is nothing short of amazing PLEASE vote for them they are helping children with learning differences become functioning adults.
The ESCAPE Family Resource Center is an incredible asset to the greater Houston community. Preventing child abuse now prevents so many problems down the road … not an issue that many people want to talk about, but one which reaches every segment of our population.
Good luck St. Jude!
There were a lot I wanted to vote for so i wrote them on paper and then pulled a piece of paper out of bag. Thought it was fairest
St. Jude Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee gives hope to families effected by childhood cancer.
I have 3 grandchildren patients of St. Judes…St. Judes is an awesome, caring and knowledgeable hospital…they provide medicines, hospital stay, anything a child needs or wants plus they provide a place for parents to live, food and more…they never ask for a cent…St. Judes has done wonders for our family…they helped saved my grandchildrens lives.
GO. ……….. St Judes ! Keep saving kids lives!
CAP all the way!
St. Jude has my vote <3
Citizen’s For Animal Protection. Help save the innocent animals. I am voting for those who don’t have a voice.
Parish School
Parish has my vote! Dan in Florence
Snowdrop Foundation! :)
The Parrish School is phenominal!The
Voted for St. Jude, my 13 yr old daughter Lindsay had a second bone marrow transplant for multiple relapsed leukemia. They are taking such good care of all of us, and they saved her life and saving many more every day!!!
The Parish school changed my son’s life-gave him words when he had none, and gave my husband and me a community of like-minded special needs parents who understood what it’s like to have a child with a language learning difference. We will forever be in their debt, so Parish gets my vote!
the answer is YES!
Good Luck St. Jude. You are simply the best!
I voted for Child Advocates, Inc. to give a voice to the caretakers of children who need care. Thanks to Gordon Dillahunty for his love & care for the children.
As a volunteer at Ronald Mc Donald House in Houston I know how this house is so important so families of life threatening illness children that can stay for short or long period of time while their children are being treated at one of the hospitals in the Medical Center, and they pay a very low rate . when leaving the house those families always tell the volunteers how grateful they are to be able to stay there. Please vote for RMDH.
Had Type 1 Diabetes for 4 years!! January 29 will be year 5! Go Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation!! May we find a cure!!
My vote is for YES Prep Public Schools!
YES for HAPS!!!
St. Jude all the way!
Delta Love
We love St. Judes Children’s Hospital. They took good care of my daughter. I will love them forever. I hope you never need them but they help so many young children.
Living Water International. The return on dollars invested in safe water is incredible. Want to save lives and build livelihoods? Here’s a worthy cause: http://www.water.cc.
Go Elves & More! Thanks for supporting the Caring Aggie Mentoring Program!
I vote for cystic fibrosis in honor of Nikki’s friends and family.
thank you st.jude
Sunshine kids !!
YES PREP is a great school organization dedicated to achieving amazing results with the students who are most in need.
I vote for the Elves and More foundation. Love buidling the bikes and seeing those happy faces receive them.
I voted for Elves & More Foundation because I work with at risk children and my son is a principal of at risk children and we know what a joy it would be for our students to recieve a special gift. I like the idea that the student signs a contract to improve their grades and their principal is involved in the process. Thank you
Go Vanessa big heart
Citizens for Animal Protection—-all the way!!! ♥♥♥
Although all of the foundations listed are of great importance to all for one reason or another. I chose JDRF because I have a daughter who is a type 1 diabetic and we hope that a cure is found soon so that she can relax and continue to enjoy the fruits of life!
A great cause to vote for and to run for
I chose Houston SPCA as the animals derserve a chance to have a great life and Houston SPCA do a fantastic job, without them animals would not survive. Animals are just as important as us humans!!!!!!!!!
I voted for Houston SPCA – so many abused and abandoned animals that need help and they don’t have a voice so we must be their voice and caretakers.
Voted for Houston SPCA
Houston SPCA, God Bless you and your Staff.
Voted for Yes Prep! My youngest is a graduate and she was well prepared for the rigors of college…
We need to protect God’s creatures as we were instructed to do.
Houston SPCA as well. The animal Shelters around the US are really trying to save more animals by fostering and better advertising for their adoptions.
I wish we could see all these comments and who’s in the lead BEFORE we vote!
St Jude….saving lives
Vote for the animals who can’t speak for themselves… Vote for CAP, Citizens for Animal Protection :)
I vote for Pink Ribbons Project!!
Help the homeless animals and those who volunteer to shelter them. Vote for CAP, Citizens for Animal Protection!
This Association is very close 2 my heart cuz my cousin has MS
Penny from from U.K the ASPCA are brilliant there dedication is beyond just caring they go out on limb to rescue animals no matter what hazareds there are they put the UK RSPCA to shame l have lost faith in them Good Luck and Best Wishes
We have a dear family friend now, Charlie Deena who is 5 years old and is under treatments at MD Anderson for blastic sarcoma. Charlie is progressing well, and has so many people on his side, family and friends AND the Texas A & M Football team led by Johnny Manzell. Our children are so prescious and some we have such a short time. Their hopes and dreams are large and they often are our strength. Let’s continue to give this children opportunities to reach those dreams while thre is still time.
Linda Bell
Go CanCare!
Psyched!
Please vote for the shelter dogs. CAP loves and cares and needs our support.
Unless you are voting for an animal charity (those are the ones in real need), then shut the hell up. Animals are truly defenseless against stupid retarded humans.
I couldnt of put it better myself
:)-
I beleive are senoirs are very looked over and under served. I would l ove to see this money to towards working with the senoir support services. Many of them have to choose weather to eat are buy medication and this is sad. These are people who helped to built this great nation. They need to be care for and at the very least to make sure they have their basic needs of neccesity.
Community Outreach Nurse
My son has Duchenne muscular dystrophy VOTE PARENT PROJECT MD TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS AND GIVE THESE BOYS OUR SONS A FIGHTING CHANCE
Bobbie Webb- I voted for Susan G. Komen / Houston. We are either survivors, have someone in our family or have friends that are survivors, or we have lost loved ones. My prayer is that God continues to Bless this organization and others like it.
Go Houston SPCA!!
Go Houston SPCA!
I would love for the Epilepsy Foundation to receive this money!
As some who has lived with epilepsy for 12 years, they have my vote!!!!!!!!
Thank you SEARCH for helping take care of the homeless of all ages.
Vote for Houston SPCA!!!!!
Help animals that are abused or neglected cause they can’t speak for themselves .
Epilepsy Foundation has my vote!
Go SPCA
CanCare gets my vote and support.
Go Houston SPCA !
CAP gets my vote.
CanCare is awesome.
Keep giving bicicles.
I voted for the SPCA; they do an amazing and can always use more funding.
Go Pink!
The Epilepsy Foundation of Texas can use the $50,000.
There’s not doubt they are all wonderfull charities, but my vote goes to Ronald mcdonals houston.
I vote for Caps Citizens for Animal Protection. I want to be a voice for the innocent and voiceless. The animals need this money
Houston SPCA gets my vote
Protecting little bodies that cannot care for themselves…best wishes to all the dedicated guardians at the Houston SPCA.
Vote for the Houson SPCA! They rescue millions of animals and give them the love and care they deserve while providing life saving medical treatment for these abondaned and neglected animals. Mans beat friend should not be abused or mistreated, he should be cared for in a loving home woth shelter, food, and water. These animals cannot wait! Millions are suffering today.
CF=CURE FOUND!
Hpuston SPCA kills more than they adopt out ! CAP sheltwer has the highest adoption rate, lowest kill rate. Too bad some of the no kill shelters & groups aren’t on the list.
Deb, the last time that CAP released their statistics, they admitted to a KILL rate of 52%. (Records are on our website) This means that CAP also kills more than they adopt out. It also means that their kill rate has been rising over the last few years, and it means that their kill rate is now almost as high as BARC’s (animal control), even though CAP can say no to intakes when they get full vs. killing animals to make room for more.
But, I agree that it is a shame that some of the No Kill shelters and groups were not included in this contest. If there is a way to nominate those groups next time, we would like to know how to do this.
Here is the hpuston spca? Ive never heard of it.
CF=CURE FOUND. Please help make this a reality!
Child Advocates Absolutely!!!! What a worthy cause.
I vote for Cystic Fibrosis Foundatin
SPCA PEOPLE. Please.
I vote for Child Advocates
I have a son, niece and nephew that have Cystic Fibrosis. Please help us a find a cure!!!!
For everyone and there family who has CF , a 9 yr old brought this awareness in my life throught his struggles. Prayers for Dalton Dingus.
My Granddaughter has had Cystic Fibrosis for 17 plus years and hope she has many more
with our family. Help with the cure
Parish School changes the lives of young children! It is truly a miracle place. Please vote for Parish – a place where learning challenges become strengths.
My dogs came from CAP so I’m impartial, but best of luck to all the charities and their supporters.
Children are in so much need not only do they need daily living support but they lack love this world is loveless. Lord, Jesus send those with love in their hearts to give love to all the little children.
Please vote for the Houston SPCA. They work very hard to protect and take care of so many animals. And sometimes travel many miles to do so.
Hey John Doe, be a man and let’s meet for lunch!
Don’t let one garbage spoil the whole show. Bad karma will do him in, trust me.
I voted for CF, no particular reason other than I know all of the fine people involved.
We need this blessing for our “honey bee” Dalton Dingus.
we love you sweetheart!
“C.A.P.” ALL THE WAY!!!!
For the little boy who has touched everyone’s heart, Dalton Dingus our sweet lil “Honeybee”.Love ya <3 <3
Texas Childrens Hospital has saved my son’s life TWICE….we stayed at Ronald McDonald both times and had a place to send time with our 3 other children while we were there. Parents with children sick and in the hospital need support and comfort. Ronald McDonald is my vote….PLS consider making it yours too!
Houston SPCA does a magnificent job of helping to give the animals a better life. God Bless You All. :)
CAP serves our cats and dogs!
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation needs you assistance to save kids lives, Government does not help to research the disease to find the cure. More and more Kids are born with the syndrome and they need help. Be one supporter. Thanks
All shining stars deserve to live a long, healthy, happy life! ST.JUDE ‘S research gets us closer to being possible!
CanCare support helped me through a very difficult time with breast cancer. Thanks Can-Care
Citizens for Animal Protection does an excellent job for our furry friends! They’ve given us one of our rescue dogs and made our lives so enriched! Thanks CAP!
Thank. You
Educate!!!
Poor, helpless, abused animals need help too. . My vote is for The Houston SPCA
please give my vote for child advocates
Hi Thomas, make sure you voted above. They won’t tally the votes left in the comments.
My vote goes to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation(JDRF). My 5 year old son is Type 1 and we need to help as much as we can to find cure for everyone who is affected by this disease.
I support cause!!!
Voting to help those that rely on us to help them.
The work of Bering Omega Community Services began in 1986 thanks to the tremendous efforts of volunteers from Christ Church Cathedral and Bering Memorial United Methodist Church. The Bering Community Service Foundation and Omega House were established to address the staggering challenges posed by a completely new and frightening epidemic. These agencies were created to provide compassionate care to people living with HIV/AIDS virus and to their loved ones.
In 1986 Eleanor Munger, a retired 76-year-old Montessori school teacher, courageously founded Omega House, a residential hospice, to provide a safe and caring environment for people living through the final stages of HIV/AIDS.
The work of Bering Omega Community Services began in 1986 thanks to the tremendous efforts of volunteers from Christ Church Cathedral and Bering Memorial United Methodist Church. The Bering Community Service Foundation and Omega House were established to address the staggering challenges posed by a completely new and frightening epidemic. These agencies were created to provide compassionate care to people living with HIV/AIDS virus and to their loved ones.
In 1986 Eleanor Munger, a retired 76-year-old Montessori school teacher, courageously founded Omega House, a residential hospice, to provide a safe and caring environment for people living through the final stages of HIV/AIDS.
The work of Bering Omega Community Services began in 1986 thanks to the tremendous efforts of volunteers from Christ Church Cathedral and Bering Memorial United Methodist Church. The Bering Community Service Foundation and Omega House were established to address the staggering challenges posed by a completely new and frightening epidemic. These agencies were created to provide compassionate care to people living with HIV/AIDS virus and to their loved ones.
I vote for DSAH. I know a great a special boy with down syndrome. He goes by the name of Nikki and he has inspired me and my town in many ways!
# go DSAH
JDRF is a leading research foundation that is making a difference in the lives of diabetics Type I and Type II. Diabetes is becoming epidemic. They need your donation to find a cure!
Help improve and extend the lives of diabetics around the world. My sister needs a cure to stay healthy! I vote for JDRF!
I vote for JDRF! They are making a difference in the lives of all diabetics. Diabetes is a very expensive and life changing disease. Help us find a cure with your donation. My daughter needs a cure!
Please give the $50K to JDRF. I need a cure to prolong and improve my life and health. God and JDRF are my hope for a better future.
my vote DMD
I vote for SPCA
GO CHILD ADVOCATES ;-)
I’m in California so it is still the 8th & thus my vote for Child Advocates shld still count. It did not specify it was Central Time. Thanks :-)
Vanessa’s Big Heart Foundation is my vote!!
LUPUS founation
Like kittens at the shelter, it’s almost impossible to choose, but:
Bering Omega Community Services
snowdrop
I vote for Cystic Fibrosis. Let’s fund research to find a cure!
Pam Crystal
My vote is for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!
I vote for Vannessa’s Big Heart Foundation!
I vote for the Multiple Sclerosis to receive the money. Thanks
I vote for Houston SPCA !
Yes, Houston SPCA has my vote.
Sunshine Kids
Sunshine Kids!!
Sunshine kids!!!!!!!!
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation because My nepew is only one and has tht and had a few surgergys and needs tht money!
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation because my son has Cf and for all the other children who have CF and have to keep having so many medications everyday and hospital stays and physiotherapy and lung functions etc etc, we need a cure NOW!!
The National MS Society!
Child Advocates because children are our future.
ALS Association Texas Chapter!!!! many many votes!!!
I vote for the spca because they are the ones who save animals and might become are pets
Vote PPMD
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