One Garden Oaks-based nonprofit got a special delivery of 1,300 juice boxes and $20,000. Bank of Texas just completed the juice box challenge with Kids\u2019 Meals, an organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in Houston.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be able to have a say in where our local community donations go,” said J.W. Parnell, commercial relationship manager at Bank of Texas.\u00a0“The freedom to direct our generosity is a privilege that brings satisfaction and hope to the children supported by Kids’ Meals.\u201d\u00a0 Parnell is the employee who nominated Kids’ meals for the Guide the Giving program, where employees nominate and vote on a winner every year.<\/p>\n
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Bank of Texas employees in Houston delivered hundreds of juice boxes to Kids’ Meals to help end childhood hunger. (Submitted photo)<\/p>\n
When dropping off the donated juice boxes, Bank of Texas volunteers were able to present a $20,000 check as part of their employee-guided giving program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are so grateful for the chance to support a nonprofit that\u2019s truly woven into the fabric of our community. What makes this even more meaningful is that our employees led the way. It\u2019s a powerful reminder that when we listen to our people, we make a bigger impact together,\u201d said Randy Walker, Houston market CEO for Bank of Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bank of Texas employees in Houston have volunteered over 400 hours in the past five years, with more than $50,000 in donations awarded in the same timeframe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Garden Oaks-based nonprofit got a special delivery of 1,300 juice boxes and $20,000. Bank of Texas just…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[718,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-81347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114892792400569023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}