Purpose: To preserve a sustainable portion of the Katy Prairie for the benefit of its wildlife and all Texans forever.

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Purpose: To reduce litter, increase recycling, and bring about a long-term improvement in attitudes and trash-hauling habits.

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Purpose: To teach, restore and preserve the richness of our environment through outreach to children, their parents and teachers, through schools and home schooling.

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Purpose: Leadership Houston, creates leaders. It gives people the tools and information with which to influence positive change in Houston. Through its “Flagship” program and community leadership education, it develops and enhances civic leadership skills across the city.

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Purpose: To encourage the informed and active participation of citizens in government and to influence public policy through education and advocacy.

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Purpose: A conservation organization dedicated to protecting natural areas in the Houston region. We work to protect stream corridors, river corridors, flood buffer zones and to provide wildlife with a natural home. We do this by working with willing landowners who agree to permanently protect their lands from future commercial development.

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Purpose: The Memorial Park Conservancy is dedicated to the preservation of the native habitat of Memorial Park for future generations; to public use, enjoyment, and education in accordance with the conditions of the conveyance to the city by the Hogg family; and to the on-going support of the Houston Parks Department. Publication: Our monthly electronic newsletter, Happening in the Park.

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Purpose: To establish and maintain a versatile botanical facility for Houston and the greater Gulf Coast region, serving the general public, the horticulture industry, and the scientific community. Publication: Quarterly newsletter, Parkscape, published by Harris County Precinct 4 Parks. Programs: Various education programs offered throughout the year focused on gardening and plant related topics.

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Purpose: To develop, in children and adults, life-long curiosity, understanding, and respect for nature. Publications: Quarterly newsletter; Nature At Your Doorstep: RealWorld Investigations for PriMary Students (book); Birds of Russ Pitman Park (pamphlet); Discovery Trail Guide (pamphlet).

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Purpose: To cooperate in the enjoyment and study of nature; to further conservation of natural resources and foster interest in them, and to work toward the establishment and maintenance of natural sanctuaries and preserves.

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Purpose: Working with the city, county, state, and community to preserve, enhance, increase, and celebrate area parks and green space; speaking out when parks are threatened; planting trees and wildflowers across the Houston area; initiating park preservation programs.

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Purpose: A nonprofit organization for people interested in nature and dedicated to the study and protection of the environment.

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Purpose: To ensure the right and ability of all individuals to manage their sexual and reproductive health by providing health services, education and advocacy.

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Purpose: A civics’s speaker organization dedicated to mainstream Democratic, progressive and liberal values.

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Purpose: To bring together all former RPCV’s within the Gulf Coast area in order to promulgate the ideals of the Peace Corps; to disseminate pertinent Peace Corps-related information on a local, national, and international level, and target community activities that we can support as a local chapter of the Nation Peace Corps Association.

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Purpose: Dedicated to the advancement of architecture, urban design, and the built environment in the Houston region through educational programs, the publication of Cite, and active programs to initiate physical improvements. By sponsoring lectures, seminars, symposia, exhibits, and tours, RDA seeks to involve the public.

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Purpose: To foster a sense of pride in the San Jacinto watershed; to promote responsible, planned “smart growth,” which improves citizens’ quality of life, rather than detracting from it; to encourage responsible eco-tourism in teh region; to increase public awareness of the value of forested communities: froests improve air quality, reduce stormwater run-off, filter water polluntants, increase real estate values, provide wildlife habitat, and are beautiful to gaze upon.

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