The Foundation delivered $60,000 in latest-generation battery-powered ventilation units to the Houston Fire Department this October, continuing a corporate partnership that has now spanned a decade. Cheniere Energy’s giving has now reached nearly $500K since 2022, making them the Foundation’s largest sustained equipment partner.
Read the full story →Sixty thousand dollars in latest-generation ventilation units bring Cheniere Energy’s Foundation giving to nearly half a million dollars since 2022.
CITGO Petroleum partners with the Foundation to deliver specialized thermal imaging and rapid-response gear to high-demand Houston fire stations.
In partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor, high-visibility digital displays across Houston bring civic awareness to firefighter equipment needs.
Over 400 civic leaders, firefighters, and corporate partners gathered to fund critical equipment and honor Houston’s frontline personnel.
The Foundation reaches its goal: every active HFD station now operates industrial turnout-gear extractors to remove toxic carcinogens.
A template for corporate honoring: CBRE’s sustained donations memorialize retired Senior Captain Anthony Morado Sr. through station gear.
From pandemic decontamination units to rescue boats and Jaws of Life, twenty years of itemized purchases logged down to the dollar.
A review of the Foundation’s 2024 fundraising year, including $171K in grants issued directly to HFD and expanded corporate partnerships.
A Houston annual tradition. Anne Nelson’s "The Guys" presented as a staged reading with all donations benefiting the Foundation.
A look back at the matching gift campaign that amplified donor impact through a multi-week partnership with Coors.
The Foundation launched a new website to focus attention on its mission of providing life-saving equipment for the Houston Fire Department.
The Foundation’s landmark first event, timed to the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The Foundation makes its case in public: the Houston Fire Department needs help providing much-needed life-saving equipment.
The first equipment reaches the department, and the annual evening becomes a fixture rather than a one-off.
The only foundation in Houston providing non-governmental funding to the city’s firefighters returns for a second year.
More than $99,000 of equipment handed to the City of Houston Fire Department at a presentation ceremony.
A third year on the anniversary date, funding equipment the city budget does not cover.
Four years of raising funds to buy supplemental equipment and supplies for the men and women of the Houston Fire Department.
A rapid response boat introduced at Deussen Park, funded through the Foundation and the Gulf Coast Ike Relief Fund.
The department publishes what it needs, and the Foundation goes looking for the money to buy it.
For more than 150 years Houston’s firefighters have answered the call. This is the Foundation’s thank you.
The 2019 list, and the year the extractor programme moved from ambition to scale.
An evening in support of the equipment the city budget leaves to the Foundation.
Holiday shopping at the annual event, with twenty percent of proceeds going to the Foundation.
Twenty percent of all sales went to the Foundation’s work cutting the rate of cancer in firefighters.
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