ABOUT

We hail from engineering & energy backgrounds working for various companies, mostly within the energy sector. It’s Houston. What do you expect?

So how did we become creators of the biggest (actually, we believe it’s the only one) annual fundraising event to benefit the Houston arm of Toys for Tots? Well, several of us engineering & energy types gathered in October of 2007 at a favorite watering hole and ended up planning a get together for the following month to promote a Texas based band & to invite bunches of engineering & energy folks to join us. In case you don’t know it, engineering & energy type folks can be quite social. The plans mushroomed (non-engineering term) big-time. In a flash, we had booked a venue and the band. Next thing you knew, one of our engineering folks suggested that we could grow our crowd by offering sponsorship opportunities to benefit Toys for Tots. Engineering & energy types have very big hearts. We contacted John Campbell, “the man” in Houston when it comes to Toys for Tots, and he showed us how to do things the TOT way. With no fundraising experience at all – and after only one month of planning – we held the first event and raised more than $20,000! We had so much fun, and the event was such a fundraising success, we decided to make it an annual effort. This year’s gathering will be even bigger and better.

It’s called Engineering & Energy Night Out, but remember that engineering energy type folks are very social so you don’t have to be in the engineering or energy business to join us and help Toys for Tots.

Our goal is to help local underprivileged children in the Houston area have a great Christmas. At the same time, give them a positive message about the Engineering & Energy Industries and to promote local & state wide Texas “Red Dirt” Music and have a good time doing it.

EENO is a proud member of the Americana Music Association. www.americanamusic.org

Click on the drawing of kids to read some heart-warming, hand-written thank you notes.