Sanford Brass, managing partner of Trifinery, a Houston-based company with a plant in Corpus Christi, led an effort to gather medical supplies, diapers, baby food, chlorine tablets, blankets and other emergency goods for the victims of the disaster in Venezuela that killed thousands. Brass has had business connections in Venezuela for some 25 years. All the effort went to load up an oil tanker, the Hero, that docked in the Port of Corpus Christi on Monday with a load of crude and departed for Venezuela on Tuesday carrying the emergency supplies. Give a ROSE to Brass of Houston and the local companies that helped send the sorely needed relief package on its way. Young philanthropists Philanthropy is usually associated with the rich, but it doesn't have to be.
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That fact is being driven home by 28 eighth-grade students in Dallas. The youths are all students at Solomon Schechter Academy, a Jewish private school. The group formed a fund called TGIF - To Give in Friendship. The money is collected through gifts from friends and family who give to the fund instead of giving cash to the teen-agers celebrating bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. The ceremonies denote the child's responsibility for following Jewish law.