Contributing Sponsors

For the first 22 years of this research program, we have been indebted to the firm of Telesurveys Research Associates for training the interviewers and overseeing the professional quality of the sampling procedures and data collection. Beginning in 2004, those responsibilities have been assumed by the Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston. Thanks are also due to the undergraduate students in Sociology 436, who help each year to design the questionnaire and to complete a portion of the interviews. We are grateful as well to the Rice University administration for its continuing support and to our colleagues both in Houston and beyond who are collaborating in the analyses of the survey data.

Underwritten from 1983 through 1995 by the Houston Post, this research was supported from 1996 until 1999 by the Houston Chronicle, with generous additional contributions from SBC, Fiesta Mart, and KTMD-TV Channel 48. Beginning in 2000, both the annual survey and the additional “oversample” interviews in Houston’s ethnic communities are being funded by a growing consortium of contributing sponsors.

Listed here, with profound gratitude, are the organizations and individuals whose vision and generosity have made this research possible:
[As of 2006]

Corporate Underwriters

Gallery Furniture

The Greater Houston Community Foundation

Houston Chronicle

Houston Endowment Inc.

Jain & Jain, CPAs

AT&T Foundation

Swalm Foundation

The United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast

Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

Corporate Sponsors

 AmegyBank, formerly Southwest Bank of Texas

Center for Houston’s Future

 CenterPoint Energy

Fiesta Mart

Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Group 1 Automotive, Inc.

H-E-B Company

JPMorganChase–Houston

KHOU-TV Channel 11

KTRK-TV Channel 13

Lovett Homes Inc.

Memorial Hermann Hospital System

Palmetto Partners, Ltd.

Pinto America Growth Fund

Reliant Energy

Stanford and Joan Alexander Foundation

State Farm Insurance Companies

Sterling Bank

Waste Management, Inc.

Wells Fargo

Corporate Friends

American Leadership Forum, Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter

Bank of America

BMC Software Inc.

Compass Bank

CRC Foundation

Deloitte & Touche

Everett Family Fund

Hines Interests Limited Partnership

Houston Rockets

Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation

John Walsh Interests L.L.C.

Leadership Houston

 Linbeck Group L.P.

Locke Liddell & Sapp L.L.P.

 Marek Brothers Systems Inc.

Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw L.L.P

Merrill Lynch

MetroNational

Texas Children’s Hospital

Whitney National Bank

Wulf and Co.

Individual Friends

F. J. Hank Coleman, Jr.

Lee W. Hogan

The Honorable Bob Lanier

Ed Wulfe

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PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTORS

AACtion–JPMorgan Chase Bank

Asian American Press Club of Greater Houston

Asian Pacific American Heritage Association

Asian Southwest Media

Baker Hughes, Inc.

 BrookstoneCorporation

Central Bank of Houston

Chinatown Map & Directory

Chinese American Citizens Alliance

Clear Channel Houston

Corporate Volunteer Council of Greater Houston

Janice M. Crawford

de La Garza Public Relations

El Dorado Communications

Filipino American Council of South Texas

Fugro Consultants L.P.

First Choice Bank

Gee Family Association

Gulf Coast Retailers Association

HBC Broadcasting Texas L.P.

HBS National Corporation–Texas

Houston Chinese American Lions Club

Houston Post Company

Indo-American Charity Foundation

KRTS-FM

Laredo National Bank

Locke Liddell & Sapp L.L.P.

M2L Associates, Inc.

Organization of Chinese Americans–Houston

Janice Gow Pettey

 Randalls Food Markets

Satterfield & Pontikes Construction

SBC Foundation

Shell Oil Company Foundation

Southern News Group

St Luke’s Episcopal Health System

 Telemundo 48 KTMD-TV

Texas Colonial Homes

Texas Transportation Institute

 Tribble and Stephens Company

Turner Collie & Braden, Inc.

Ttweak

Walter P. Moore & Associates

WB39 KHWB

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