Spring Resident Bob Drew shows incredible generosity by giving away his prize in honor of son who fought cancer.
HOUSTON, TX (September 12, 2008) Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston (BBBS) has recognized Bob Drew of Waste Management as the top fundraiser of its Bowl for Kids’ Sake season. The Spring resident raised $7,185 for the one-to-one mentoring agency and won the top fundraising prize: Two round-trip tickets donated by Continental Airlines. This is the third year Drew has formed a bowling team to raise money for BBBS.
“I’m quite thrilled,” Drew said. “We’ve had such a good time in previous years, we weren’t about to turn down the opportunity to do it again. Whatever we can do, we’re going to step up to the plate.”
Drew is the Director of Risk Management Claims for Waste Management. He formed a team with his co-worker Jim Perry and a friend, Mark Reichart. In all, 70 Waste Management employees raised money through Bowl for Kids’ Sake by forming teams, asking friends and family for donations, and then bowling with their co-workers at an event earlier in the summer.
What’s more amazing is that Drew is not going to keep the tickets. Instead, he plans to donate them to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, another non-profit agency close to his heart that helped out his son Zachary as he battled cancer.
“The Make-A-Wish Foundation provided him with a shopping spree he requested, and we’d like to give something back to them as a form of gratitude in honor of Zach who just last week began his first year at Texas A&M,” Drew said. “Zach and his brother Kyle are all the gifts my wife and I really need.”
The Bowl for Kids’ Sake season brought both companies and individuals together at 12 different events from March through August. In all, Bowl for Kids’ Sake participants raised more than $244,000 for BBBS.
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About Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston creates successful one-to-one mentoring relationships for all local children and teenagers who need and want them resulting in better schools, brighter futures, and stronger communities for all. Our mentoring relationships have a measurable impact on children. A national study found that children in the BBBS program are less likely to skip school, less likely to try drugs and alcohol, less likely to use violence to solve problems, and are more likely to get along with their families. In 2007, BBBS served 2,300 children in the Greater Houston area. For more information about how we are changing what it means to grow up in our community, head to our website, www.bbbshouston.org. BBBS is a United Way Agency.
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