A taste for success is acquired by thousands of greater Houston area school children through a program that engages them in grass-roots entrepreneurship on “Lemonade Day,” a spring event for which youngsters operate their own lemonade stands.

You can support this fun project by stuffing event information into backpacks to be distributed to kids at local schools. This activity will be going on March 8 to 12 at a warehouse near Irvington and the North Loop.

Food drive needs help

Fight hunger by participating in a food distribution drive based at a church near Mesa Road and Texas 90 on Wednesday.

If you have some time available that morning or afternoon, you can join with other volunteers in helping unload a fleet of trailer trucks and dispense food and other essentials to people experiencing economic hardship.

Approximately 3,000 local families will benefit from the event.

Health care assistance

Database design expertise is needed by an agency that helps medically indigent people obtain health care.

The agency recently acquired new software for managing its donor database and is looking for a volunteer willing to help them exploit its capabilities for maximum effectiveness.

If you have the background needed, consider lending your know-how and insights to this process. The agency's office is located just south of downtown.

Additional opportunities

• Conduct environmental research at a nature center just north of Baytown.

• Serve as floor host at a cancer hospital in the Texas Medical Center.

• Teach genealogy to senior citizens in a Cy-Fair area life-enrichment program.

• Staff a thrift shop in Friendswood that supports services to the needy.

• Be an escort on outings in an Alvin recreational program for people with mental retardation.

• Monitor guardianships in a court-sponsored program serving the elderly.

• Use your car to pick up donated medical supplies for an agency that ships them to Third World nations.