— News and Press Releases

Date Title/Source Organization Category
06-19-2023 Reflections on the opening of Memorial Park’s Kinder Land Bridge and the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Prairie
03-30-2023 Hear from some of the women who founded Discovery Green
02-09-2023 Watch: Dr. Marc L. Boom on the importance of leadership in a partisan world
12-01-2022 Checking in with 2011 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient Keith Desrosiers
06-26-2022 Checking in with 2012 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient James Sheridan
06-26-2022 Catching up with 2012 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient James Sheridan
03-08-2022 Catching up with 2018 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient Elizabeth Rodriguez
01-21-2022 Houston deserves a news ecosystem as big and bold as it is
10-28-2021  Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: Kathryn Dollins
10-04-2021 Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: Guy Hagstette
06-30-2021 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award Alumni Spotlight: Johanna Sanchez
06-29-2021 New Funds, New Normal, and a New Day for Education
06-24-2021 Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: Gary Dudley
05-27-2021 Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: CJ Johnson
04-21-2021 Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: Aarti Garehgrat
04-14-2021 Introducing Discovery Green’s new playground
03-31-2021 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award Alumni Spotlight: Caitlin Wales
03-26-2021 Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: Sarah Newbery
03-01-2021 Fraudulent email scam involves Kinder Foundation
02-26-2021 Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: Sabrina Kirwin
01-27-2021 Get to Know the Kinder Foundation Team: Patra Brannon-Isaac
12-14-2020 Connecting with Excellence: Kinder Excellence in Teaching Awards 2020
10-21-2020 Kinder Foundation’s Guy Hagstette Reflects on Five Years of Buffalo Bayou Park
10-12-2020 Keeping Buffalo Bayou Clean & Green
03-25-2020 COVID-19 and Houston
03-06-2020 Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy’s Justin Dyer featured on Our Voices Matter podcast
02-07-2020 Building the Bayou Greenways: Greens Bayou
01-23-2020 2019 Year in Review: Kinder Institute for Urban Research
11-07-2019 Building the Bayou Greenways: Conservation and Maintenance
10-07-2019 Building the Bayou Greenways: White Oak Bayou ,
09-30-2019 Kinder Foundation Honors Twelve Exceptional Houston-Area School Teachers
08-26-2019 Building the Bayou Greenways: Hunting Bayou
08-05-2019 900,000 Good Reasons to Transform Education in Houston
07-15-2019 Building the Bayou Greenways: Sims Bayou
06-10-2019 SPARKing Change in Houston’s Park Deserts , ,
06-07-2019 Building the Bayou Greenways: Brays Bayou
04-05-2019 Mizzou in Oxford ,
03-04-2019 Historic Third Ward mural restored
02-19-2019 New Education Research Center established in Houston
02-12-2019 New Kinder HSPVA campus opens, ushering in next chapter for Houston’s talented fine arts students
01-15-2019 Astronomical silt removal completed in Buffalo Bayou Park in 2018
01-08-2019 Progress Report: HCC’s Z-Degree Program
06-12-2018 The end of the school year includes the dedication of five new SPARK parks
06-12-2018 Urban parks are changing the landscape and lifestyles of U.S. cities ,
05-14-2018 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, completes first phase of campus redevelopment project with inauguration of the Glassell School of Art on May 20 ,
04-25-2018 Neighborhoods are embracing the benefits of the bayou greenways and life along the bayou
04-06-2018 SPARK Parks across the city offer outdoor recreation for schools and communities alike ,
02-21-2018 Empowering students at Yellowstone Academy
02-14-2018 Bayou City Music Series debuts in Spring 2018 at Discovery Green, Emancipation Park, and Buffalo Bayou Park , ,
12-19-2017 Planting roots: a SPARK Park Desert Initiative update
10-03-2017 Strong public-private partnerships key to rebuilding after Harvey , , ,
08-29-2017 $5.3 Million Raised and Growing Hourly for United Way of Greater Houston Relief Fund to Help Those Devastated by Harvey
07-10-2017 The Rededication of Historic Emancipation Park
06-01-2017 MFAH breaks ground on Nancy and Rich Kinder building ,
06-01-2017 “From Rendering to Reality: The Story of Buffalo Bayou Park”
05-04-2017 Taking Houstonians’ pulse on traffic, crime, immigration and more
04-20-2017 How A $10.7 Million Grant Will Improve Education In Houston ,
01-12-2017 Buffalo Bayou Park receives top honor, subject of new documentary
12-08-2016 Rain Underground: Buffalo Bayou Park’s Cistern welcomes its first installation
12-01-2016 Downtown illuminated: winter art at Discovery Green
11-03-2016 One year later: the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy ,
09-28-2016 Exceptional Houston-Area Teachers Honored and Granted Collective $240,000
05-19-2016 Young Mothers Residential Program at Project Row Houses receives Kinder Foundation gift
02-05-2016 Kinder Foundation Director of Parks and Civic Projects to join panel discussion at The Cultural Landscape Foundation conference
01-26-2016 Foundation appoints chief of staff, financial team
01-10-2016 Kinder Foundation names directors of parks and civic projects and education
10-16-2015 MFAH breaks ground on campus and Glassell School ,
10-08-2015 A memorable week at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy
10-03-2015 Buffalo Bayou Park marks completion
09-27-2015 Teachers Receive Award and Collective $240,000 in Grants, former award winners share stories
08-25-2015 Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Urban Edge – Director’s Address
07-15-2015 Maravilloso! at Discovery Green
06-17-2015 Cristo Rey Jesuit marks third graduating glass and over $9 million in scholarships
05-14-2015 How to make sure philanthropy pays off , , ,
05-04-2015 Discovery Green marks its 7th birthday
01-14-2015 Nancy and Rich Kinder Building for 20th and 21st Century Art Announced as Part of MFAH Redevelopment Project
11-20-2014 Construction Progress on Emancipation Park
08-07-2014 Nationally Recognized Planner Bill Fulton to head Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research
07-29-2014 Private Event Space and ‘Grab and Go’ Planned at Buffalo Bayou Park