Working Together to Improve the Quality of Life in Southern Brazoria County

	Dow Texas Operations employees volunteer hundreds of hours each year to tutor BISD students through the Dow Promise program.

If there is a community activity in southern Brazoria County then chances are there will be a Dow Texas Operations' employee involved. From youth sports to building homes to tutoring students, Dow volunteers give freely of their time to improve the quality of life in their communities.

Dow recognizes that employee involvement within the community fits hand-in-hand with its focus on Sustainable Development. Throughout the year, Dow volunteers are involved with more than 60 local events in some capacity.

Dow volunteers can also be found at almost every event associated with the Brazoria County Fair Association during the year, including Senior Citizen's Day, Science Fair and Livestock Showmanship.

Employees of Dow also help children at Velasco Elementary with their reading through the STARS program. Volunteers can be found at the BACH Roll and Stroll, annual beach and various city-wide cleanups, the MS 150, the Martin Luther King Parade, Boys and Girls Club events, Junior Achievement, Habitat for Humanity builds, Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rotary, United Way and many other community events.

Among the thousands of Dow volunteers that give freely of their time to help out, some have opted to take on the greater challenges of various board positions as well. Currently, Dow is proud that more than 60 local non-profit, government or educational boards include Dow employees among their members.

Dow is also proud of its local retiree population's volunteer efforts. Dow retirees can be found at food pantries, nature refuges, Sea Center Texas, Brazosport Memorial Hospital, Habitat for Humanity builds, and in local schools.