Willis Cultural Heritage Society

10/06/2024

tomorrow is the last day to register to vote for this election. we'll be registering folks at the Willis Library from noon to 5pm!

08/08/2024

Want to share an amazing opportunity. I have been reviewing proposals for Unfunded List for a number of years. You can submit a proposal that wasn't funded to them, and a panel of reviewers will give you feedback FOR FREE!!! They are also always looking for volunteer reviewers. Early on I got a chance to talk to Dave Moss (the founder) and his mom and they are incredible people! so check it out.

https://www.unfundedlist.com/

Great grant proposal feedback can be harder to find than funding. Here at Unfunded List, we partner with grantmakers to provide honest feedback to grant proposal authors. Our evaluation committee includes hundreds of members each with valuable perspective and knowledge to share. We are pleased to be offering another round of review for grant proposal authors. This will be our 19th round of review and we have reviewed over 1100 proposals since 2015.��To request feedback from our evaluators, please complete this short form and upload a draft of your proposal. Everyone who does will receive a feedback report by November 1st that will include reviews from multiple evaluators. We also offer a complementary followup conversation with one of our team to review your feedback and discuss next steps. Groups that have completed our program raise over 200% more on average. Share your proposal with us by September 1st and we will send you our feedback by November.

05/18/2024

Went to an event in Willis sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management for wild horse and b***o adoption. Learned that their habitat can support 26,000 animals and right now there are 86,000 and not enough food so they are offered for adoption and those not finding homes are put on off-range pastures. Never know what opportunities you will encounter if you look.

03/22/2024

Hi all! Wanted to let you know about a local fundraiser for the The Jessie Edward Hollins Memorial Scholarship and Services Fund Inc. Jessie was from Willis and played for the Chicago Cubs. He drowned while fishing and a scholarship fund was established in his memory. Sounds like a yummy plate and for a good cause!

03/21/2024

Check out the newest success of the History Taskforce! We're awesome! Thanks Ann for your determination. You did it!

After 73 years of sitting sideways and silent atop Willis' historic Thomas Chapel United Methodist Church, the 550-pound church bell can "make a joyful noise"

03/21/2024

I'm excited to announce I have been appointed as a Volunteer Deputy Voter Registrar for Montgomery & Travis Counties in Texas and I'm working on Harris County. If anyone, business, organization, or church is interested in having a voter registration event in any of those counties, let me know and I'll be happy to set up with you. And it's all FREE! message me here or email me at [email protected].

03/01/2024

Join us for some spring cleaning! We have about 30-40 volunteers already coming but we need you too! Thanks to Toliver Church of God in Christ across the street from the cemetery for giving access to their bathrooms and very yummy bake goods as a fundraiser.

02/28/2024

Join us to do some spring cleaning! We have about 30-40 volunteers already coming but we need you too! Thanks to Toliver Church of God in Christ across the street from the cemetery for giving access to their bathrooms and very yummy bake goods as a fundraiser.

12/30/2023

check out this great story about Thomas Chapel here in Willis.

The commanding white wooden structure has stood in Montgomery County since 1899. Here's how the builder's descendants are working to preserve it.