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Featured Community Involvement Events
SpawGlass-South Texas team members served an astounding 2,500 hot dogs to hungry kids and parents at the Las Huellas KIDFISH Foundation Tournament in Brownsville on May 21, 2011. With 2,206 children fishing, the event broke the previous Guinness World Records record for the largest fishing tournament. Parents and children began lining up after midnight prior to the event to be one of the first 800 to receive free fishing rods.
On November 12, 2011, SpawGlass-Austin was part of a team that built an award-winning structure made entirely of cans as part of CANstruction, benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas (CAFB). GSC Architects, Jaster-Quintanilla (JQ) and SpawGlass teamed up to plan and build “RocketCan,” a rocket structure that used 3,186 cans of food partially donated by H-E-B. The structure won an award for structural ingenuity, but the team was most proud that they were able to donate such a significant amount of food to the CAFB. CANstruction is a charity committed to ending hunger using “one can” as a catalyst for change.
SpawGlass sponsored the 3 Strides for Sarah event, benefiting the National Marfan Foundation (NMF), on October 22, 2011. The event was organized by Rachel Epperson, a former SpawGlass team member, and was named for her daughter, Sarah. The event raised over $8,000, and all proceeds went toward scholarships for families, particularly those with children affected by Marfan syndrome, to attend the 2012 NMF Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Attending this conference will allow families to consult with doctors who are most knowledgeable about Marfan syndrome and attend seminars and receive support related to the syndrome.
SpawGlass celebrated Earth Day 2010 and showed appreciation for Harlandale Independent School District by donating a new greenhouse and repairing an existing greenhouse at the Jewel C. Wietzel Center, a school for children with special needs. San Antonio Region team members prepared the area for the new greenhouse, relocated the existing greenhouse and built a handicap accessible walkway in the new greenhouse. Choate USA donated crushed granite and limestone gravel material, and Winco donated labor and equipment to excavate a portion of the area. The new greenhouse is large enough for wheelchair access and serves several educational purposes for students.
In 2010, former SpawGlass Chairman Ron Taylor introduced the CREATE! (Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment) Africa initiative to SpawGlass. In support of this program, which is led by Founder and Executive Director Barry Wheeler, SpawGlass Foundation contributed $50,000 to CREATE!, and team members contributed over $54,000. This money has really made a difference in Africa. In rural Senegal, more than 8,500 cashew, mango and lemon trees have been planted by more than 1,000 households in only two months, taking full advantage of the short, rainy season. These trees will provide shade, help to prevent soil erosion and act as a barrier against the encroaching Sahara Desert as well as be a source of food, medicine and the inputs for generating income for families and community-based cooperative income-generating groups. With water being scarce, villagers are rehabilitating wells to provide water for their gardens and nurseries during the dry season. Villagers also are being trained in the installation and maintenance of the first solar water pumps in the areas, providing both a sustainable and renewable energy solution to the provision of essential water from the rehabilitated wells in the villages where CREATE! is working. As the villagers say, "L'eau est la vie!" ("Water is Life!"). www.createaction.org
Recent Community Involvement
Other Featured Events:
- In September 2011, SpawGlass sponsored the H-E-B Quintana Open, benefiting United Way.
- The SpawGlass-Houston office donated 338 pounds of food and $1,400 during the KHOU Spirit of Texas Food Drive for the Houston Food Bank in summer 2011.
- During SpawGlass-San Antonio’s annual Luau on May 12, 2011, SpawGlass team members, clients, architects, specialty contractors and suppliers donated 1,420 pounds of food to the San Antonio Food Bank.
- For the fifth consecutive year, in 2010, SpawGlass-San Antonio team members adopted a cottage of children at Boysville in San Antonio and fulfilled each child’s wish list with brightly wrapped gifts.
- SpawGlass-San Antonio donated $22,888 to United Way for the 2010 United Way Community Campaign.
- SpawGlass-Houston team members helped out with the Pepsi House renovation project, the remodel of a two-story house into three apartments for Eagle’s Lift Ministries. The new complex provides a home environment within a safe and secure facility for homeless, abused and/or pregnant young women.
- SpawGlass and Morris Architects teamed up to design and construct a posh doghouse for the annual Barkitecture Houston fundraiser, benefiting Pup Squad Animal Rescue.
- SpawGlass-Austin participated in Goodwill’s Pathways Summer Employment program, which gives young adults ages 16 to 24 the opportunity to receive training in a work environment.
- In 2009, for the seventh consecutive year, SpawGlass-Austin team members donated gifts and hung holiday lights with the residents at Phoenix Academy of Austin, a non-profit residential substance abuse service organization dedicated to youths.
- Two families were adopted for the holidays by SpawGlass-Austin team members through Care Ministries. Over $1,500 was donated and used to purchase holiday gifts.
- Together with a contribution from SpawGlass Foundation, SpawGlass-Houston collected $4,019 for Boys & Girls Harbor, an organization that provides long-term residential care in a family-like environment to children ages five to 18 years old. Gifts were hand-delivered to 19 children at Boys & Girls Harbor in La Porte.
- SpawGlass-San Antonio donated cash and several items to create gift bags for injured service men and women at the Wounded Warrior Center at Fort Sam Houston, coordinated through the Associated Builders and Contractors South Texas Chapter.
- SpawGlass team members, clients, architects, specialty contractors and suppliers raised over $400 for LifeWorks, a non-profit organization that provides services to youth and families, during SpawGlass-Austin’s annual City Limits event on October 1, 2009.
- During the annual Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Bowl for Kids’ Sake (BFKS) event in early 2009, SpawGlass-Austin served as an event sponsor and also sponsored two teams. In total, SpawGlass and bowling team members gave or raised more than $4,600, which was used to match Central Texas children with mentors.
- SpawGlass-Houston continued its tradition of donating fun games and toys for the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots in 2008.
- On March 13, 2008, a grand opening celebration was held for the new 3,200-square-foot Williams Administration Building at Sunny Glen Children’s Home in San Benito. The mission of Sunny Glen Children’s Home in San Benito is to "help hurting children become happy children." SpawGlass, specialty contractors and material suppliers donated their services to complete the $350,000 building at no cost to Sunny Glen Children’s Home.
Representative Community Organizations
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