This year Bounce Energy and the American Heart Association are teaming up to help fight back against heart disease.  The American Heart Association works with millions of Americans every year to help educate about living a healthy lifestyle and providing an invaluable service by offering CPR and first aid training to communities and healthcare providers.  This month we’re donating $1 for every new “like” we get on our Facebook page. Team up with us to help fight back against heart disease!

This month we are donating $2500 to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Houston plus we are donating an additional $1 for every new “like” on our Bounce Energy facebook and $1 for every new follow on our Bounce Energy  twitter.   Helping a child reach their full potential and build their future is just one click away.

Be part of something BIG!

Houston

Moody Gardens: Festival of Lights
November 12, 2011 – January 1, 2012
This is the Gulf Coast’s biggest holiday lighting event and features over one million lights and 100 sound-enhanced animated displays. Don’t miss out on pictures with Santa happening every night and best of all it snows every Friday night!

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens: Yuletide: Holiday Time at Bayou Bend
December through New Year’s Day
Here you can take a festive stroll through two hundred and fifty years of history to see how our ancestors celebrated the holidays. The tour begins with a celebration of the first national Thanksgiving in 1789 then proceeds to a Twelfth-Night celebration with George and Marsha Washington and ends with a 1950′s Houston Christmas. Don’t miss out on Family Day, Sunday, December 18th from 1-5 p.m. where admission is FREE!

Discovery Green: Ice at Discovery Green
Nov. 24-Feb. 26
Watch as Discovery Green is transformed into a winter wonderland with a 7,200 sq ft. outdoor ice skating rink. Also check their calendar of events as they offer a variety of family-friendly holiday concerts, movies and more!

Dallas/Ft. Worth

ICE! Featuring Dreamworks’ Shrek the Halls
November 11 through January 1, 2011
Come on out to Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, TX to see two million pounds of hand-carved ice sculptures and slides including loveable, larger-than-life characters like Shrek and Fiona from Dreamworks’ Shrek the Halls. In addition there are over 1.5 million lights, decorations, activities and an eight-lane tubing hill covered in snow!

Christmas in the Square (Frisco)
November 25 – January 8
This is the largest choreographed holiday lights and music display in Texas! Lights and music come on from 6-10 p.m. nightly.

Holiday in the Park (Six Flags Over Texas)
November 25, 2011 – January 2, 2012
During this time Six Flags over Texas transforms into a winter wonderland. Seasonal shows, tasty holiday treats and sledding down a snow hill will make it feel like the Holidays for you and your family.

This Thanksgiving, Bounce Energy is letting you pick the charity we’ll be donating to. Bounce Energy customers can vote for their favorite charity to receive $5,000 from Bounce Energy. This holiday season, we’re looking to help the following:

Noah’s Kitchen
Star of Hope
Ronald McDonald House
Texas Food Bank Network
Fan’s Choice –a write-in slot for your favorite charity.

The voting on the survey started on November 1 and ends on November 30. To vote, click on over to Bounce Energy’s Facebook page.

By the way, a big thank-you to our Facebook fans for making Bounce Energy the most “liked” Texas electricity company and supporting our charitable campaigns.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Texas Food Bank Network
The Texas Food Bank Network unites 19 food banks across the state with a common mission to end hunger in Texas. The Texas Food Bank Network services hunger relief agencies in all 254 Texas counties. In 2010, TFBN was able to distribute over 298 million pounds of food or approximately 232,975,217 meals.

Ronald McDonald House Charities
The Ronald McDonald House Charities is to create, find and support programs that improve the health and well being of children. Through their 36 years of experience, they have built strong relationships with local communities and people in the field to continually establish chapters across the globe to help families during their most difficult or challenging times.

Star of Hope
The Star of Hope is a community dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men, women and their children. They provide the community structured programs that focus on spritual growth, education, employment, life-management and recovery from substance abuse.  At any given day, the Star of Hope helps approximately one thousand homeless men, women and children foster positive life changes.

Noah’s Kitchen
Noah’s Kitchen is a grass roots movement started in Houston that provides the less fortunate with nourishment, nutritional education and other assistance as needed. Its volunteers provide the less fortunate with food, gently used clothing, and the resources that will help them in finding medical help, shelter, employment and eventually housing to get them off the streets.

Fan’s Choice
For last year’s Pick Your Charity campaign, we received an overwhelming amount of charity nominations to receive a donation from Bounce Energy. This year, we’re doing it again. You can either pick from one of the four that we previously listed or submit your own. We’d like to hear which charity or non-profit you’re passionate about.

To vote for your charity, visit the Bounce Energy Facebook Page and after “liking” us, you will be able to vote for your favorite charity or non-profit. The charity with the most votes at the end of the month will receive a $5,000 donation from Bounce Energy.

At the beginning of this month, some of our Bounce Energy team members participated in the Houston Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. We met so many survivors, fighters, and family members who have lost a loved one to breast cancer.

We think it’s important to support organizations that help find a cure for the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women. That’s why for breast cancer awareness month, we will be donating $2,500 to breast cancer charities and foundations.

We all know of someone in our lives who currently has or has survived breast cancer. If would like to help us contribute more to breast cancer research, we will be adding $1 for every new “Like” we receive on the Bounce Energy Facebook page.

After an initial assessment of your home and specific needs, your home may qualify for measures such as weather-stripping, window caulking, attic insulation, room air conditioners and more.

The City is accepting applications now and assistance is awarded to those who meet the income guidelines listed on the program’s homepage.

For information on the program and it’s guidelines, click here.

Organizations in Houston, Texas, and across the nation are coming together to help support the three Berry children. They will need medical rehabilitation, physical therapy, psychological support, and education. We would like to show our support by contributing to the Joshua and Robin Berry Children’s Trust and donating $2,500. You have the chance to help us add even more by “liking” our Bounce Energy Facebook page. For every new “like”, we will add an additional $1 to the fund. Show your hearts for the Berry Children and help us raise money to help them recover from this accident.

In order to help, Bounce Energy will be donating to Support Our Troops Texas. Support Our Troops Texas does many things to support military personnel at home and abroad. Here are a few of the things they do to help:

• Mail monthly “care packages” to troops overseas
• Meet and greet troop flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International airport
• Send gift cards to active duty soldiers at Christmas time
• Send birthday cards and written communication to our troops on a regular basis
• Make financial contributions to other non-profit organizations such as Intrepid Fallen Heroes

Bounce Energy would like to add to Support Our Troops Texas’ efforts and is donating $1 for every new connection on the Bounce Energy Facebook page and Bounce Energy Twitter profile. To help, all you have to do is “like” our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.