Community Service

Throughout the year, Post Oak families join together to do service work across the community. Events have included packaging boxes at the Food Bank, landscape work at Buffalo Bayou, gardening at local nature centers, along with our annual blanket-making activity in the gym on MLK Day to donate to area shelters. Watch The Post for announcements of upcoming family service activities. Questions or ideas for events? Contact the Development Office.

Upcoming Events

Unfortunately this event has been canceled.

Galveston Beach Cleanup, Breakfast, and Fun in the Sun!

Thanks to our Community Service Chairs Gina Scurry and Jennifer Christensen for organizing this event!

The Park Board of Trustees City of Galveston will co-host a private event for The Post Oak School to clean a section of the Galveston beaches. Ms. Elizabeth Schneider, Environmental Coordinator, will be present to talk to us about the Board’s efforts to keep the Galveston beaches clean.

Saturday, April 1
East End Lagoon Park and Preserve
8:00–10:00 a.m.

A Post Oak School morning at the beach with a potluck breakfast, water play, and fun in the sun. Please bring beach toys.

Please bring a dish of your choice for the potluck buffet table.

Galveston Park Board provides:

Gloves
Bags
Grabbers
Water
Bug Spray

What YOU should bring:

Additional water
Sunscreen
A chair
Media/Liability release form

Where: located on Galveston Island at the east end of the Seawall Blvd along Boddecker Dr. adjacent to Apffel Park (East Beach). 100 Boddeker Rd. Galveston, TX 77550 (GPS will not take you to the parking lot. See photos for reference.)

Meeting location: Ms. Schneider will have a canopy and folding table in the parking lot.

The East End Lagoon sits on the far east end of the island:

List of Family Volunteer Opportunities

The following are some local nonprofit organizations whose missions are aligned with Post Oak’s values, and who offer family-friendly volunteer opportunities. —Post Oak Service Committee

Walk for Water 10/29/22

Grundfos and Houston Public Works Walk

Saturday, October 29, 2022, at Buffalo Bayou at Allen Landing, Houston, TX
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Each registered participant will walk with an empty bucket for 1.5 miles along Buffalo Bayou and then fill the bucket and walk back 1.5 miles with a filled bucket of water.

Cost: $25 per adult (children ages 2 to 17 yrs. are free to register)
All funds raised will go to the non-profit Water Mission.
To read more and register go to https://events.watermission.org/site/TR?fr_id=2511&pg=entry
Register under “THE POST OAK SCHOOL” team name

Kids’ Meals (Food Security)

Kids’ Meals’ mission is to end childhood hunger by delivering free, healthy meals to the doorsteps of Houston’s hungriest preschool-aged children, and through collaboration, provide their families with resources to help end the cycle of poverty.

How To Get Involved

Decorating lunch sacks at home: Volunteers can help make lunch sacks special by decorating them with markers, crayons, stamps, mazes, stickers, etc. (NO glitter, please!) Simply buy a pack of standard, 6 lb. brown lunch bags and unleash your inner artist- great for ALL ages and ALL artistic skill levels. You can drop your decorated bags off at the Kids’ Meals offices M–F, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., at 330 Garden Oaks Blvd., Houston, TX 77018, or mail them to the same address.
Packing lunch sacks at home: Volunteers can assemble food items and pack their own lunch sacks using the guidelines available here.
Packed lunch sacks may be dropped off at the Kids’ Meals offices M–F, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., or mail them to Kids’ Meals at 330 Garden Oaks Blvd., Houston, TX 77018.
Volunteering on-site: Volunteer shifts at Kids’ Meals are available, for family members 8 and up, in the kitchen and/or warehouse Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Lasagna Love (Food Security)

About: Founded in 2020, Lasagna Love is a global nonprofit and grassroots movement that aims to positively impact communities by connecting neighbors with neighbors through homemade meal delivery. LL also seeks to eliminate stigmas associated with asking for help when it is needed most.

How to Get Involved: Volunteer home cooks are needed to make and deliver lasagnas (vegetarian is fine!) to recipients in their area. Drop-off is contactless for COVID-prevention reasons. Volunteers choose how many deliveries they want to make and how far they’re willing to travel each time. For more information, please visit the Lasagna Love website.

Houston Welcomes Refugees (Refugee Support)

Houston Welcome Refugees’ mission is to help ease the resettlement process for refugees coming to Houston by mobilizing invested, caring volunteers. Their mission is especially critical in 2021–2022, as Houston is expected to welcome thousands of new refugees from Afghanistan.

How to Get Involved: Volunteers are needed to source supplies and create Welcome Kits for refugee families, many of whom arrive in Houston with little but their clothes. Types of kits include: Personal Care Kits, Cleaning Kits and Kids’ Kits. Please see their website for details and instructions.

Emergency Aid Coalition (Unhoused/Homeless Persons Services)

The Emergency Aid Coalition is an interfaith organization that collaborates to provide temporary assistance in the form of food, clothing, and other basic needs, with an emphasis on serving the working poor in Houston’s inner city and Midtown areas. Services are also provided to unhoused individuals, including through the daily sack lunch program.

How to Get Involved: Volunteers are needed to collect supplies and assemble manna bags of ready to eat food items for unhoused/ homeless persons. For information, down the PDF from their website. Manna bags and other in-kind donations can be dropped off at the EAC offices at 5401 Fannin Street (corner of San Jacinto and Calumet), M–F, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

Buffalo Bayou Partnership (Outdoor/Environment)

Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) is the non-profit organization that’s mission is to revitalize and transform Buffalo Bayou, Houston's most significant natural resource. BBP’s geographic focus is the 10-square mile stretch of the bayou that flows from Shepherd Drive, through the heart of downtown into the East End, and onto the Port of Houston Turning Basin, along which it maintains and operates Buffalo Bayou Park.

How to get involved: Each year, volunteers contribute thousands of hours removing invasive plants, weeding, planting native vegetation, picking up trash and debris, and other tasks as needed:

You and your family (ages six and up) can sign up for the “Volunteer Workday” which falls on the third Saturday of every month (8:30–11:30 a.m.)
You can arrange to volunteer during the week (W–F, 8 a.m.–12 p.m.)
You can also work with the volunteer coordinator to arrange a time for a group to volunteer.

Details on the various volunteering options and available dates can be found here. It’s a great way to get outdoors, preserve nature, and meet new people!

Previous Events

Annual Service Project on MLK Jr Day

Monday, January 16, 2023 in the BC Gym from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (school not in session; service project only)

Post Oak will host our annual Blanket Making Community Service Project on MLK Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the gym. Blankets made at this activity will be donated to an area non-profit that works with children.

All Post Oak families are welcome. Students from Primary level up have helped with this project in the past.

Decorating Lunch Bags for Kids’ Meals

Calling all scribblers, sketchers, tracers, stencilers, designers and sticker-placers! Kids' Meals Inc. provides nutritious meals to pre-school aged children throughout the Houston area. They use over 1.5 million paper lunch bags over the course of a year, and need our help to make them special! Please join other Post Oak families as we decorate bags with drawings, stickers, stencils, mazes, etc!

Bags and art supplies will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own, including packages of standard, 6-lb brown paper lunch bags.

The event will be held on our outside basketball court at the Bissonnet Campus and moved to the gym in the case of inclement weather.

Houston Food Bank

Join other Post Oak families as we volunteer to sort and repackage donated items at the Houston Food Bank warehouse! This will take place at the main warehouse at 535 Portwall St., Houston 77029.

Please note that all volunteers must be aged 6 and over.
Masks and closed-toe shoes are required for everyone.
All staff, volunteers and visitors who can provide proof of vaccination will NOT be required to wear masks while inside our facilities. All others must continue to wear a mask (please bring your own.)
All volunteers must register in advance. After registering, parents should additionally click on the "Resources" tab to complete a Youth Volunteer Consent Form for their child(ren).

Please note that the Food Bank website does not offer a family registration option- Each participant, including children, must have their own volunteer account with the Food Bank and register individually. Parents may give their own email addresses for their children's registration.

Parking: If space permits it, you may park in the front parking lot, but in the event of a large volunteer turnout, you may be directed to our overflow lot located behind the building.

Ocean Music Action

Ocean Music Action, a non-profit that pairs chamber music concerts with ocean conservation activities, is presenting their first events over Earth Day weekend:

Friday, April 22, 2022, 6:30 p.m.: Sunset performance at the Rothko Chapel reflecting pool
Saturday, April 23, 2022, 9:30–11:30 a.m.: Volunteer cleanup of Buffalo Bayou at 105 Sabine St.
Saturday, April 23, 2022, 6 p.m.: Concert at the Moody Center for the Arts in collaboration with National Geographic photographer David Liittschwager
Sunday, April 24, 2022, 3 p.m.: Lecture by David Liittschwager at HMNS

More details can be found at oceanmusicaction.org.

Book Fair Project

Families collected books to donate to BookCycle at the 2022 Big Bearkat Book Bash held in Post Oak's gym.

A Look at Previous Years’ Service Projects

Learn more about Community Service at Post Oak