Houston Heights Womans Club

Programs: 1. School uniform drive. We collaborated with the heritage group to donate uniforms to the schools in our area-heights high, hamilton middle, hogg middle, browning elementary, field elementary, harvard elementary, helms elementary, love elementary and travis elementary. We accepted gently used items from our members and purchased new ones from donations collected from our membership and interested neighborhood residents. Results exceeded our goals to collect 1, 000 pieces and extra pieces were given to each of the seven schools 2. Hurricane harvey relief: we opened the clubhouse for relief collection. We collected eight truck loads of needed bedding, food, water, clothes, household items, diapers, cleaning supplies and animal food. Distributed items to four relief sites. Collected $7000 from our membership which was given to baker ripley for their ongoing support of the storm victims. 3. Women's studies library initiative (wsli) the wsli was established to help build quality women's studies collections in our local public school libraries with the hope that current and future generations of girls are inspired by the stories of historic and contemporary women they find on their school's library shelves. All nine heights area public schools (reagan, hamilton, hogg, browning, field, harvard, helms, love, and travis) participated in this programl. A list of women non-fiction age appropriate books was put together by the wsli committee and distributed to the librarians at each school where they could choose 10 books for their library. A fund raising campaign was established with letters going to the heritage and evening groups membership. The community response was rewarding. The books were purchased and library ready and fully cataloged for each school's collection. A reception was held to present the books to each school. We invited the librarians, and principals from each school and each school was represented 4. Additional outreach eff0rts include: prom outfits for heights high school junior and senior classes; graduation and encouragement parties for students in risk; over 200 gift cards for school students needing help after hurricane harvey (fast food, grocery store, walmlart, target, gasoline, etc. ); readers for harvard and love elemantary schools; non-perishable food drives, monetary donations for the heights park area; and many more.