Region IV Education Service Center - The largest Education Service Center in Texas, serving the schools of Houston and surrounding areas. Houston Hillel - Serves the social, ethnic, cultural, and religious needs of Jewish students at the University of Houston through an extremely active programming board of students. Offers calendar of events, staff, and student board information. Collaborative for Children - Non-profit organization that focuses on improving the quality of early-childhood care and education in the Houston, TX area. Provides information for families and teachers. The Santana Dotson Foundation - Committed to helping economically disadvantaged students from Houston's inner city neighborhoods with the financial assistance they need in order to receive a college education. Houston A+ Challenge - Independent nonprofit that supports public school reform efforts in the Greater Houston area. Features blog, initiatives, and news. Neuhaus Education Center - Provides professional teacher development and dyslexia education for parents and educators in research-based methods of literacy and dyslexia instruction. Sage Education Group, LLC - Helps families find educational placement options, including college searches, therapeutic and emotional growth placements, placements for students with learning disabilities, and tutoring placements. Spring Branch Education Foundation - Non-profit organization that accepts donations for the Spring Branch Independent School District to facilitate student and parent programs, mentorships, development programs, and grants. OLRA Educational Foundation - Houston-based, non-profit educational foundation dedicated to improving the lives of the underprivileged population in the USA, India, China, Philippines, and the rest of Southeast Asia. ESCAPE Family Resource Center - Non-profit agency offering parenting classes, divorce classes, classes for parents with children of disabilities, and parenting classes to prevent child abuse and child neglect in Houston. The Women's Fund for Health Education and Research - Organization produces and distributes educational publications on various health topics free of charge to the Houston community. These books are available in both English and Spanish. River Oaks Elementary School PTO - Extensive Parent-Teacher Organization site Young Audiences of Houston - Dedicated to educating children through the arts and to making the arts an integral part of the school curriculum. Writers in the Schools - Sends professional poets, fiction writers, and playwrights into classrooms in the area to share their love and knowledge of the written word with students and teachers. Provides history, staff biographies, program details, and contact information. Institute of International Education Southern Regional Center - Promotes international understanding through educational and professional exchanges by presenting Houston's cultural diversity and economic strengths to current and future world leaders and by creating opportunities for Houstonians to serve as citizen ambassadors. Houston Center for Literacy - A non-profit urban literacy coalition, created by the Mayor and City Council to coordinate adult and family literacy services in the Greater Houston area.