Thank you

To everyone who helped start it all.

These donors are founding the future of Bobcat Nation. Their gifts fund the first teacher grants, the first student awards, and the first proof of what this community can build together.

28 Founding Members and counting

Honoring our founders

The Founders Wall

Permanently recognizing the people and partners who started it all.

Visionary Founder$10,000+

  • Mac Haik Chevrolet

Green & White Founder$2,500

  • Cumming Group
  • Kay Kloecker
  • Tellepsen Construction
  • Anonymous

Bobcat Founder$1,000

  • Dr. Tiffany Gillum
  • Herbert O’Neil, Hempstead ISD Superintendent
  • JT Howard, Jr. Howard Insurance Agency, Class of ’96
  • Kimberly Flanagan, Class of ’94 & Chris Flanagan, Class of ’93, Precision Urethane & Machine, Inc.
  • Christine Herbert Class of ’91
  • First Baptist Church Hempstead
  • John and Amanda Brandt

Founding Friend$500

  • Appel Ford
  • Carol Anita Howard
  • Faith United Church
  • Greater St. Peter’s Missionary Baptist Church
  • Hempstead ISD Board of Trustees
  • In Memory of Brian Becvar Class of 2005
  • Mark and Joy Berman
  • Progressive Missionary Baptist Church
  • Robert Wolf Sr. and Sharon Wolf
  • Artis Edwards, Hempstead ISD Chief Operations Officer
  • Hempstead Early Childhood Center
  • Hempstead Elementary School
  • Hempstead High School
  • Hempstead ISD Central Administration Staff
  • Hempstead Middle School
  • Kendric D. Jones-Precinct 3 Commissioner

Add your name to the wall.

The inaugural Founding Member campaign is a one-time opportunity. Once it closes, this distinction will never be offered again.