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Casino Night 2019

Under Our Wings Casino Night party is set for May 14th 2019. Sponsors and attendees raised over $9,500, greatly surpassing last year's donation. A huge thanks to our sponsors for continuing to support environmental stewardship and literacy education through the Under Our Wings Program:   Firestone Building Products BAIR Heritage…

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2018 Texas Book Festival

The 2018 Book Festival was a huge success with our Live Reading of "Neither Night nor Day" out front of the Austin Capital that promoted literacy to youth. We also had games, activities, tattoos and so much more from the Avian Kingdom to bring value and promote literacy to younger…

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The FourSquare Challenge From Outer Space

Under Our Wings wants your school to join us in promoting literacy and community by participating in the Literacy Egg FourSquare Challenge. This is a fun and collaborative learning activity where you and your students draw/paint/color a Literacy Egg in one of your four square boxes. We are asking schools…

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Arandas is Sharing the Love at Texas Children’s Hospital for Valentine’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Awards by Allstar Shares Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Sports Creek Shares the Love at Texas Children’s this Valentine’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Fiesta Shares the Love at Texas Children’s Hospital this Valentine’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Gwee is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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EMSI is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Firestone Shares Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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PLAN Lending Shares the Love at Texas Children’s this Valentine’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Reach Youth Global is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Jefferson Bank is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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San Antonio Pediatric Society is Sharing Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Perham Logistics is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Architectural Fabricators is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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c.HAIR.i.TEE is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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400Voices is Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s Hospital

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Houston Dash & Dynamo are Sharing Valentine’s Love at Texas Children’s

Under Our Wings is an outreach program that fosters literacy, foundational character building, and environmental stewardship through its mentorship initiative, interactive games, and inspiring bilingual series, Avian Kingdom: Feathered Tales. The program delivers these life lessons through the support of sponsors and volunteers that share the same values and community…

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Sharing the Joy of the Holidays

Looking for an easy way for your students to give back this holiday season? We can help. We are collecting Christmas cards to give to children at the hospital and the shelter this holiday season. Help us collect 1000 cards by downloading the template, coloring the cards, and sending them…

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Supporting Hurricane Victims

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the Under Our Wings team has been focusing efforts towards helping flood victims and their families get back on their feet. With our home base in Houston, we found ourselves quite lucky to not have experienced any flood damage. However, we must now turn…

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Brownsville ISD Literacy Tour 2017

The Avian Kingdom team soared back down to Brownsville last week for another Literacy Tour. Hundreds of kids received a new Avian Kingdom book. That's not all. Dual-language educational hip hop artist, Guero Loco, brought more fun and excitement to the presentations, with live musical performances. Check out all the…

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Casino Night 2017

Under Our Wings hosted another successful Casino Night party this year. Sponsors and attendees raised over $12,500, greatly surpassing last year's donation. The party was a blast for the 225 attendees and the Under Our Wings team. Everyone had a chance to mingle and network with their current and potential…

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The Avian Kingdom Teaching Trailer was Stolen!

After Captain Eagle and Dr.Hoots spent the day delivering 3,000 books to the Texas Children’s Hospital, they went home to spend time with their families.  The heroes woke up to find something very important missing: The Teaching Trailer! Villains had crept into the literacy lair and stole the Avian Kingdom’s…

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Dia de San Valentin

El año pasado, durante el día de San Valentin, El Reino Aviar y su iniciativa Under Our Wings Literacy Program, entregó libros, paquetes de actividades y tarjetas creadas a mano para los niños en el “Texas Children’s Hospital” Con la ayuda de patrocinadores locales y voluntarios, el programa fue capaz…

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Upcoming Valentine’s Event: 2017 A Dash to Remember

It’s time again for our annual event, A Dash to Remember. The past three years for Valentine’s Day, Avian Kingdom’s outreach initiative, the Under Our Wings Literacy Program delivered books, activity packages, and handmade valentines to the children at the Texas Children’s Hospital. As the program continues to gain help from local sponsors…

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Reach Youth Global – Back to School Event

  Over the weekend, we partnered with Reach Youth Global to put on a back to school event. we had such an amazing time at North Brook Middle School! Along with GueroLoco and Dr. Hoots, we gave away so many backpacks and uniforms. What a great start to the 2016…

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Brownsville ISD Literacy Tour 2016

We just got back from an AWESOME adventure in Brownsville, TX. Teachers from 12 amazing school invited not only us, but Captain Eagle, Dr. Hoots, and Vladimira to come down and teach their kids about energy, birds of prey, and the importance of reading. They were even gifted with books…

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