| To find out how you can become a corporate partner, please contact us. Since 1991, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation has served as the official non-profit funding partner for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. By bringing together companies, corporations, communities and individuals the Foundation has successfully raised more than $70 million, funding a wide variety of projects. Programs like Keep Texas Wild and Healthy Habitats are educating the next generation of land stewards, conservation initiatives such as the Commercial Shrimp License Buyback Program are restoring habitat and protecting wildlife, and projects like the Texas Fresh Water Fisheries Center in Athens and the World Birding Center in the Rio Grande Valley expand opportunities to experience the outdoors.
The activities and programs of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation would not be possible without the generous support of our corporate partners. |
| Our partnership with Earth Share of Texas creates a growing funding mechanism for the Foundation. Earth Share of Texas creates the workplace-giving arm for the Foundation by bringing together payroll deduction contributions from companies all over Texas. |  |
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EnCana is the Foundation’s newest corporate conservation partner supporting several projects. These include: a project at Toledo Bend Wildlife Management Area to address the problem of invasive aquatic vegetation; to launch the new state-wide Healthy Habitats Program; support fundraising efforts for the new Texas Game Warden Training Center; and sponsored the annual Texas Conservation Hall of Fame celebration. |
| A partner since 1997, Exxon Mobil is the sole sponsor of a new educational program, Keep Texas Wild, which is featured in the Parks & Wildlife magazine each month and is distributed to 6000 schools and libraries across Texas. Exxon Mobil has also generously supported Hurricane Relief efforts and the Conservation Banquet and Hall of Fame celebration. |  |
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Provides generous annual support for the two-day Wildlife EXPO held in Austin on the grounds of Texas Parks & Wildlife headquarters, 4200 Smith School Road. Is also a major sponsor for the annual Texas Conservation Hall of Fame celebration. |
| Hunt Consolidated continues their generous sponsorship of the Texas Conservation Hall of Fame Banquet. |  |
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Luminant is the annual Hall of Fame Sponsor of the Texas Conservation Hall of Fame celebration this year on September 16 at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, TX. To date is the largest corporate donor to the new Texas Game Warden Training Center now being constructed in Hamilton County, underwriting the Luminant Gymnasium. |
| On April 25, Macy’s and 60,348 of its customers who shopped in stores across Texas on Earth Date 2009, contributed $1 each to the Foundation through the company’s Turn Over A New Leaf campaign. The Foundation and Macy’s look forward to expanding this innovative program in the future, resulting in even greater support for parks, wildlife and conservation in Texas. |  |
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Providing major support for 18 years of the EXPO Conservation Banquet, now the Texas Conservation Hall of Fame celebration. Serving the hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation for sportsmen, women and children statewide in their pursuits and passions. |
| Sponsor of the 2009-2010 Texas Conservation Hall of Fame Banquets and provider of malt beverage for the event. Also a major sponsor of the Texas Bass Classic, providing private funding for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Inland Fisheries Division. Through creative marketing and point-of-purchase promotions, substantial funding will also be raised for priority conservation projects. |  |
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A long-time supporter of Texas conservation, Shell most recently helped successfully complete the Commercial Shrimp License Buyback Program through a grant from the Shell Marine Habitat Program. Shell is a member of the Foundation’s Corporate Conservation Coalition, supporting everything the Foundation does on behalf of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. |
| Gulf States Toyota provides major support for the Texas Bass Classic, the Conservation Passport, the two-day Wildlife EXPO, state park guides and maps, and the Texas Conservation Hall of Fame celebration. Toyota is the official vehicle of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation. |  |
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Walmart is a major supporter of the Texas Conservation Hall of Fame celebration and the sole underwriter for the Water for Texas initiative, restoring habitat and protecting water throughout the Colorado River watershed. |