Robert S

Robert S. "Bob" Horton, MS

A native of Oklahoma City and third generation Sooner, Bob earned his BBA in Marketing from Southern Methodist University in 1966 and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of North Texas in 1998. He is now pursuing a second masters degree in "organizational stuff". His professional and academic work has focused on organizational behavior, community health promotion, urban sociology, educational technology and large-scale mobilization of community volunteers.

Bob has been a lifelong innovator, leading the computerization of the Braniff International periodic aircraft maintenance management systems and restructuring of its international advertising contracts and controls in the late '60's. In the '70's he led the establishment of Southwest Airlines' counter-to-counter airfreight division. In the '80's he helped Houston become one of the cleanest big cities in America. His marketing and program design strategies have recently been implemented by American Humanics, Inc, the Association for Volunteer Administrators International, Keep Denton Beautiful, Inc., and United Way of America. With the newly-forming Citizen Development Institute of Fort Worth, he is helping design programs to change community normative systems which mold citizens' volunteering, giving, belonging and voting behaviors.

Now a Research Associate with the UNT Center for Public Service, Bob served as the Associate Director of the Educational Consortium for Volunteerism as well as the Campus Director for UNT's American Humanics Nonprofit Certification Program from 1997 to 1999. In those roles, his assignments have included:

Developing distance learning-based classes in volunteer management
Maintaining professional relations with the state and national volunteer administration communities
Supporting local, state and national conferences and meetings of professional volunteer coordinators
Chairing the taskforce on establishing a UNT Student/Staff/Faculty Volunteer Center
Teaching Volunteer Management to graduate and undergraduate students
Creating a funding development campaign for the volunteer management program
Designing print and web marketing materials for the volunteer studies programs
Co-conducting an appreciative assessment of the Denton County United Way board of directors

Bob is an experienced executive of both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. He formerly served as:

Southwest Airlines as Houston Sales Manager & System Airfreight Marketing Manager
Houston Chamber of Commerce as HOUSTON Magazine Business Manager (and Life Member)
CLEAN HOUSTON/Houston Clean City Commission as Co-founder and Executive Director
Fort Worth Transportation Authority as Director of Marketing
AIDS Coordinating Council of Tarrant County as Executive Director.

Bob's key and present volunteer & volunteer management roles have included:

Alpha Kappa Delta National Sociology Honor Society - Member
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Volunteer Agencies - Member
Association of Volunteer Administrators – Member, CVA Candidate
Eta Sigma Gamma National Health Education/Health Promotion Honor Society - Member
First United Methodist Church AIDS Care Team - Member
Girl Scouts of the USA, San Jacinto Chapter - Special Interest Groups/At-Risk Girls Adult Leader
Houston Chamber of Commerce - Life Member
Houston Clean City Commission - Volunteer Technical Advisor
Houston/Gulf Coast Volunteer Center – Treasurer
Houston Jaycees - Individual & Chapter Excellence Committee Chair, Board Members
HOPE-Houston Organization for Parent Education - Treasurer, Fundraising Chair
Keep America Beautiful – Nat'l Leadership Award, Nat'l Training Team Leader
Keep Texas Beautiful – Former Boardmember, Officer
Leadership Houston - Charter Class Member and Officer
Leadership Houston Alumnae Association - Charter Member and Board Officer
National Association of Community Leadership Organizations – State Delegate
National Alliance for Nonprofit Management - Member
National Society of Fund Raising Executives – Member
National Wellness Association - Current Member
NPO Resources-Southwest - Co-founder, Board Treasurer
Polytechnic Main Street Project – Charter Treasurer & Fundraising Chairman
St. Francis Episcopal Church School Development Committee - Co-Chair
Spring Branch ISD – Chairman, Taskforce on Career Planning
Texas Association of Community Leadership Organizations – Delegate, Trainer
Texas House Committee on Environmental Affairs – Expert Resource, Witness
Texas House Committee on Transportation – Expert Resource, Witness
Thomas Jefferson High School Class of 1960 Alumnae Organizing Committee(s)
World Health Organization - Current Member

On a personal note:

Bob grew up in north Dallas, the eldest of three brothers and one sister. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School, where he was a National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist and a senior trainer on the track, baseball and football teams. He served as a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Marines and is the proud father of a son and a daughter—and also the grandfather of three. A recovering alcoholic, Bob has been an active member of A.A. and Al-anon since 1987. After 12 years in Houston, he moved to Fort Worth in 1985. He is a long-time member of First United Methodist Church, an officer in his sunday school class, and a member of Holy Family Catholic Community. Bob is a member supporter of the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Fort Worth Zoo, and the Renaissance Consort of Fort Worth. His hobbies include volunteering, reading, web design, Sunday driving on Texas' 2-lane back roads and "fixing things." Bob is working on a book entitled "Necessary Humilities". His favorite past-time is conversation with a close friend over good coffee with ice cream on the side following a better-than-average movie, play or musical performance. Walking in the words with Mary and his border collie, Sweetie, are high on his list, too...along with dirt biking and RV shopping.

Clients, cohorts & contributors::

Since 1972, Bob has served as public service executive, corporate volunteer and individual community volunteer. Serving on committees and boards, speaking in public forums and in the media, aiding in strategic planning, leading agency staff, and developing funding and other resources has allowed him to serve and to be in contact with numerous clients, cohorts and contributors as he carried out programs which they supported. Key individuals, organizations, corporations and government agencies he has served and worked alongside include:

3D/International * 3M Company * Aberdeen, Scotland, City of * Adair, Red, Incorporated * AIDS Coordinating Council of Tarrant County, Texas * AIDS Outreach Center, Fort Worth, Texas * Alaska, State of * All Saints Health System, Fort Worth, Texas * American Advertising Federation * American General Corp * American Humanics, Inc. * American Institute of Architects-Houston/Galveston Area * American Institute of Architects-National Office * American Institute of Architects-Texas Chapter * American Subcontractors Assn-Houston Chapter * American Subcontractors Assn-National Convention * American Subcontractors Assn-Texas Chapter * Amoco Production Company * Anderson Foundation, The M.D. * Anderson-Clayton Foundation * Andrews & Kurth * Angleton/Brazoria County Clean Committee * Anne Simon Reeves HIV/AIDS Daycare Center * Aramco International * Arizona Beer Wholesalers Assn * Arizona Soft Drink Bottlers Assn * Arizona, State of, Office of the Governor * Armco Steel Corp. * Arthur Andersen & Co * Arthur Young & Company * Assn of General Contractors-Gulf Coast Chapter * Associated Building Contractors * Astrodome, The/Houston Sports Assn * AT & T * Atlanta Clean City Commission * B.I.R.P.-Beverage Industry Recycling Program of Arizona * B.I.R.P.-Beverage Industry Recycling Program of Oklahoma * Baker & Botts * Bank One (Texas American Bank) * Bayou Preservation Assn/Buffalo Bayou Coalition * Baytown Clean & Beautiful (TX) * Bear Creek Independent School District * Beaumont (TX) Anti-Litter League * Beautify Texas Council * Blanton, Mr. & Mrs. Eddy * Bonanza International * Boy Scouts of America, Houston * BPWA-Business & Professional Women's Assn * Brazoria County/Lake Jackson Clean & Beautiful (TX) * Brazos Beautiful (TX) * Brazos County (TX) Beautification Commission * Brown & Root * Brown Foundation, Inc, The * Browning Ferris Industries * Burlington-Northern, Medical Department * Butler Companies * C. Itoh & Co (America), Inc * Camco, Inc * Cameron Iron Works, Inc * Camp Fire, Houston * Can Manufacturers Institute * Carter Blood Center, Fort Worth-Dallas * Central Houston, Inc * Century Development Corp/Greenway Plaza * Century Paper * Charlotte Clean & Beautiful (NC) * City of Aberdeen, South Dakota * City of Abilene, Texas * City of Alvin, Texas * City of Angleton, Texas * City of Arlington, Texas * City of Austin, Texas * City of Baytown, Texas * City of Bellaire/Clean Bellaire (TX) * City of Brownwood, Texas * City of Bryan, Texas * City of College Station, Texas * City of Colombus (NB) * City of Colombus (OH) * City of Corpus Christi, Texas * City of Creighton, Nebraska * City of Dayton, Texas/Dayton Clean & Beautiful Committee * City of Dimmit, Texas * City of El Lago, Texas * City of El Paso, Texas/Clean El Paso * City of Euless, Texas * City of Fort Worth, Police Department * City of Fort Worth, Public Health Department * City of Freeport, Texas * City of Friendswood, Texas * City of Garland, Texas * City of Granbury, Texas * City of Greenville, Texas * City of Hillsboro, Texas * City of Houston, Citizen's Assistance Office. * City of Houston, Courts Department * City of Houston, Fire Department * City of Houston, Health Department * City of Houston, Legal Departments * City of Houston, Neighborhood Housing Services * City of Houston, Office of The Mayor * City of Houston, Parks & Recreation Department * City of Houston, Police Department * City of Houston, Public Works Department * City of Houston, Solid Waste Management Department * City of Juneau, Alaska * City of Lafayette, Louisiana * City of Longview, Texas * City of Lubbock, Texas * City of Manvel, Texas * City of Moody, Texas * City of Mountain View, Missouri * City of New Orleans, Louisiana * City of New York, New York, Streets & Parks Depts * City of Nocona, Texas * City of Panhandle, Texas * City of Phoenix, Arizona * City of Richmond, Indiana * City of Shamrock, Texas * City of Sulphur Springs, Texas * City of The Woodlands, Texas * City of Tyler, Texas * City of Victoria, Texas * City of West Columbia, Texas * City of Whitewright, Texas * City of York, Pennsylvania * City Post Oak Assn * City Westwood Assn * Clayton Fund, The * Clean & Beautiful Jacksonville (TX) * Clean Dallas (TX) * Clean Denver (CO) * Clean Galveston/City of Galveston, Texas * Clean Grand Prairie (TX) * Clean Houston West * Clean Huntsville (AL) * Clean Ontario, Ontario, Canada * Clean Pasadena (TX) * Clean Pearland (TX) * Clean Tennessee * Clean Up Clute (TX) Committee * Clean Wharton (TX) * Coca-Cola Bottling Company * Coca-Cola Foods Division * Columbia Gulf Transmission * Community Foundation of Metropolitan Tarrant County * Conoco, Inc * Construction Specifications Institute * Continental Can Co. * Cooley, Dr. Denton * Cooper Industries Foundation * Cornelius Nurseries, Inc * Crooker Charitable Foundation * Cullen Foundation, The * Dallas Chamber of Commerce * Deaf Awareness Week-Houston * Dini, R.F. & Assoc. * DOVIA of Texas, Dallas, and Fort Worth (Directors of Volunteers in Agencies) * Dowell Division of Dow Chemical * Downtown Houston Assn * Downtown Rotary Club of Houston * Dresser Magcobar * East End Progress Assn * Eastwood Civic Club Cleanup * Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations-1990 Committee * Employee Assistance Professionals Assn, Greater Fort Worth Chapter * Entex, Inc * Ernst & Whinney * Evansville (IN) Clean Committee * Exchange Club of Houston * Exxon Chemical Co. * Exxon USA * Family Service, Inc.-Fort Worth * First City Bancorp of Texas, Inc * First City National Bank of Houston * First Interstate (formerly Allied Banks) Foundation * First Junior Women's Club of Houston * Fisk Electric * Foley's * Fondren Foundation * Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce * Fort Worth Independent School District * Fort Worth Transportation Authority * Four Seasons Hotel * Fourth Ward Clean Up Council * Freeport Clean up! (TX) * Fulbright & Jaworski * Garland (TX) Clean & Beautiful * General Foods Company of America * Geoquest Petroleum * Georgia, State of, Governor's Georgia Clean and Beautiful Program * Gerald D. Hines Co. * Germaine Monteil Cosmetiques * Getty Oil Co. * Girl Scouts of America, Houston * Glass House Group of AA * Glass Packaging Institute * Goodyear-Airship Operations * Greater Houston Apartment Owners Assn * Greater Houston Board of Realtors * Greater Houston Builders Assn * Greer, Moreland, Fosdick, Shepherd, Inc * Gulf Oil Corp * Gulf Printing Company * Gulf Resources & Chemical Co. * Halliburton Worldwide Services * Hamill Foundation, The * Harris County Beer Wholesalers Assn * Harris County Community College * Harris County Parks Planning Department * Harris County, Precinct 4 (TX) Clean & Beautiful * Harris Methodist Health System * Harrisburg Rotary Club of Houston * Heights Assn, The * Help Keep Beatrice (NB) Clean & Beautiful * Help Keep Sioux City Clean & Beautiful (IA) * Help Keep South Africa Tidy * Help Keep Waco Clean & Beautiful (TX) * Hershey Foundation/Hershey, Terese Tarlton * Highhams Cadillac * Highland Resources * Hines Industrial, Ltd. * HNG/Internorth * Hodge Commercial Properties, Inc. * Hope, Bob * Horne Company, Realtors * Houston Astros * Houston Auto Dealers Assn * Houston Board of Independent Insurance Agents * Houston Building Owners & Managers Assn * Houston Chamber of Commerce, Community Betterment Committee * Houston Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Committee * Houston Chamber of Commerce, Education Committee * Houston Chamber of Commerce, Transportation Committee * Houston Chronicle Publishing Company * Houston Clean City Commission * Houston Committee For Private Sector Initiatives * Houston Economic Development Council * Houston Endowment, Inc * Houston Independent School District * Houston Jobs Training Partnership * Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce * Houston Lighting & Power * Houston Main Street Festival * Houston METRO (Transit Authority) * Houston Oilers * Houston Parking Assn * Houston Private Sectors Incentives Taskforce * Houston Retail Grocers Assn * Houston Rockets * Houston Soft Drink Bottlers Assn * Houston Trunk Factory * Houston West Chamber of Commerce * Houston/Galveston Area Council of Governments * Howell Corp * Hughes Tool Company * Humble Area Rotary Club * I Love A Clean San Diego (CA) * IBM * Interfirst Bank Fannin * International Association of Volunteer Administrators * Jacksonville Clean & Beautiful (FL) * Johnson, Billie "White Shoes" * Joske's of Houston * JUCTA-Japan Used Container Technology Assn * Junior League & City of Huntsville, Texas * Junior League of Houston * Junior League of Tulsa, Oklahoma * Kanaly Trust Company * Kaneb Investment Corp * Keep America Beautiful * Keep Brisbane Tidy (Australia) * Keep Britain Tidy * Keep Denton (Texas) Beautiful * Keep Lincoln Clean & Beautiful (NB) * Keep Montgomery Beautiful (AL) * Keep Nebraska Beautiful (NB) * Keep New Zealand Tidy, * Keep Omaha Beautiful (NB) * Keep Southlake (TX) Clean and Beautiful * Keep Sydney Tidy, Sydney, Australia * Keep Texas Beautiful * Kerrville Music Festival/Kerr County/City of Kerrville, Texas * Key Clubs of Houston * Keystone International, Inc * Kirksey Development Co. * Knox Foundation, The * KPRC TV Channel 2 * KTRK TV Channel 13 * Lake Jackson (TX) Clean & Beautiful * Lan Bentsen Interests * Lanier, Mr. & Mrs. Bob * Lazybrook Civic Assn * Leukemia Society-Houston * Liberace * Lockwood/Clinton Rotary of Houston * Loews Theatres * Lone Star Industries * Lord & Taylor * Los Tios Mexican Restaurants, Inc * Magnolia Park Civic Club * Main Street Art Festival-Fort Worth * March of Dimes-Houston * Marsh & McLennan of Texas Inc * Marshall Fields, Inc. * Mayfest, Fort Worth * MBank Houston * McAshan Foundation, Inc * McGinnis Cadillac Inc * Mearns & Gill Advertising, Aberdeen, Scotland * Medenco, Inc * Memorial City Shopping Center Merchants Assn * Memorial Rotary Club of Houston * Memphis Clean & Beautiful (TN) * Metropolitan Transit Authority-Houston * Mexico, Government of, Office of the President * Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. * Monsanto * Montgomery County, Texas * Moody, Dan M., Jr. * Moody-Rambin Interests, Inc * Morris*Aubry Architects * Municipal Arts Commission of Houston * Muscular Dystrophy Assn-Houston * NASA-Clear Lake/Lyndon B Johnson Space Center * National Business Roundtable * National Center For Voluntary Action * National Convenience Stores * Nautilus Equipment * Neartown Assn * Neiman-Marcus * New Jersey, State of, Department of Energy * NL Baroid, NL Industries, Inc * North American Mortgage Company * North Houston Assn * North Texas Council of Governments * Northside Lions Club of Houston * Northwest Houston Assn * Occidental Petroleum * Ogilvy & Mather, Inc * Ohio, State of, Statewide Litter Abatement & Recycling Program Support Office * Oklahoma City Clean Community System * Oshman's * Osteopathic Medical of Texas * Our Children's House, Baylor Healthcare-Dallas * Owens-Illinois * Oxirane Petroleum * Palais Royal * Panhandle Eastern Corp * Parenting Center-Fort Worth * Park People, The * Payne & Keller * Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. * Pennzoil Company * Peter, Paul & Mary * Phillips Petroleum Company * Pilgrim Enterprises Inc * Pine Bluff Clean & Beautiful (AR) * Pizza Hut * Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Inc * Plaza Medical Center, Fort Worth * Pogo Producing Company * Polytechnic-Main Street Project, Fort Worth, Texas * Price Waterhouse * Pro Houston, Inc * Project NAMES, Ft. Worth/Tarrant County * Prudential Insurance Co. of America * Quik Print of Fort Worth * Ramada Inns * Rambin, J. Howard III * Randall's * Ranger Insurance Company * Red Carpet Inns * Reed Tool Company * Reed, Harry Management, Co., Inc * Renaissance Consort of Fort Worth * Rhode Island, State of, Legislative Committee on Environ mental Affairs * Rice University * River Oaks Civic Club * Rockwell Fund, The * Royal Oaks Garden Club * Safeway Stores, Inc * Sakowitz, Inc * Samaritan House, Fort Worth * San Antonio Clean & Beautiful (TX) * Saudi Arabia, Government of, Riyadh * Schlumberger Well Services * Scurlock Foundation * Shell Companies Foundation * Shell Oil Company * South Main Center Association, Houston * South Pasadena Rotary Club * Southern Pacific Transportation Company * Southwestern Bell Telephone * Special Olympics-Houston/Texas * Spring Branch/Memorial Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee * Spring Independent School District * St. Joseph Hospital/Sisters of Charity, Fort Worth, Texas * State Fair of Texas-Grounds/Operations Taskforce * State of Oklahoma/Keep Oklahoma Beautiful * State of Texas, Department of Transportation * State of Texas, Governor Mark White * Strake Foundation * Sunset Heights Civic Club * Swiss Bank Corp * Taft/Capitol Broadcasting Corp * Tandy, Anne Burnette & Charles D. Foundation * Tarrant County AIDS Interfaith Network * Tarrant County Health Department * Tarrant County Hospital District/John Peter Smith Hospital * Taub Foundation/Henry J N Taub * Teledyne Exploration Company * Tenneco, Inc * Texaco, Inc * Texas A&M University * Texas Building Owners & Managers Assn * Texas Business Magazine * Texas Commerce Bank * Texas Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service * Texas Department of Transportation * Texas Eastern Corp * Texas Food Marketing Institute * Texas Gas Transmission Corp * Texas Industries Inc * Texas Southern University * Texas Truckers Assn * Texas, State of, Governor's Office on Voluntarism * Texas, State of, House Committees On Appropriations, Business & Industry, Economic Development, Environ mental Regulation, Public Health, Transportation & Urban Affairs * Texas, State of, Keep Texas Beautiful Board of Directors * Texas, State of, Office of the Governor * Texas, State of, Senate Committees On Economic Development, Health & Human Services & Natural Resources * Timbergrove Civic Club * Trammell Crow Company * Transco Energy Company * Trees, Inc * UIDC Management, Inc * Uncle Ben's Foods * Union Bank of Switzerland * United Energy Resources Inc * United Savings * United Way of America * United Way of Denton County, Texas * University of Houston - Athletic Department/"Phi Slamma Jamma" * University of Houston - Campus Affairs * University of North Texas, Center for Public Service * University of North Texas, Health Science Center at Fort Worth * University of North Texas, Student Development Division * University of St. Thomas * University Savings Assn * University Village Assn * US Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transit Authority * US Executive Branch, Office the President, President's Private Sector Incentives Taskforce * Vantage Companies * Vern Ruhle * Vinson & Elkins * Virginia, State of, Department of Conservation & Historic Resources, Virginia Plan Program * Volunteer Center of Dallas County * Volunteer Center of Houston/Galveston * Waste Management International * Weatherford Clean & Beautiful (TX) * Weiner Foundation Inc * West Houston Assn * Westbury Hospital * Westbury/Southwest Assn * Western Geophysical * Western Lithograph Company of Texas * Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania * Wichita Falls Clean & Beautiful (TX) * WIC-Women In Construction * Wilson Industries, Inc * WIRES-Women In Radio & Television * Worcester Clean (MA) * Wortham, Van Liew & Horn * Yellow Rose of Texas * YMCA * YWCA