2017 is here and we are off to an exciting start! This year marks our 10 year anniversary and we will be celebrating our birthday all year long! An amazing 2200 donors have raised almost …
Freudenberg Oil & Gas Technologies Makes Large Donation
We are incredibly grateful for the commitment that Freudenberg Oil & Gas Technologies has made to Making It Better! Please click on the picture below to read the article published in …
Magnums Made A Difference
Making It Better celebrated 9 years of providing quality support services to at-risk children in Houston with its 9th annual signature fundraising event, Magnums Make a Difference, on Saturday, October 15th, raising a record $301,000.00!! This year’s event …
Freudenberg Oil & Gas Technologies Gives Back to Literacy Now
In early October, fifty employees of Freudenberg Oil & Gas Technologies volunteered their time to help create a better working and learning space for our Steps 2 Success site at …
Summer Program 2016
Did you know that kids can lose two months or more of skills if they stop reading over the summer? It’s called the “Summer Slide”. Beginning this week, we will …
Reading Intervention Successes
In April we completed our 23 week program with great results and smiling faces, serving almost 300 K-2 students in 8 HISD elementary schools. All students started the school year 1 …
Steps 2 Success Entrepreneurs
Our Steps 2 Success program students had a very busy and exciting semester! Not only did they do a lot of reading and related activities, but they also learned …
Lunch Bunch Spring 2016
Trained volunteers continued to give their time each week to support the social and emotional well-being of students in the Lunch Bunch program. Through the use of books, they covered …
Ready, Set, Read!
Children and parents residing at Belmont Place Apartments continued to attend our weekly Ready, Set, Read! program with enthusiasm. Parents, as well as our volunteer facilitators, observed tremendous growth in …
Parent Partnership Spring 2016
Our Parent Partnership programs continued through April to engage and connect parents and children in the communities of the schools we serve. We hosted two additional Family Literacy Nights at …
