The Heart Behind The Blooms
Meet the people who make Petal Power possible.
Petal Power is a service that salvages flowers and provides bouquets to people at more than 20 non-profit organizations, including nursing homes, shelters, all types of hospitals, the Ronald McDonald House, transitional homes and low-income housing developments. In our first year alone, approximately $220,000 in flowers were salvaged and shared! How amazing is that?!
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Petal Power brings together the strength of parent-child teams who have an opportunity to work together in service, hone their business and philanthropic skills, and cultivate a legacy of giving through the generations. Our army of volunteers share joy, bring smiles to our neighbors faces, and mitigates the potential waste of a powerful natural resource.
Our work provides non-profit and other organizations an opportunity to extend beyond formal fundraising and give to the community's most overlooked and unsung citizens the validation, joy, hope, and delight though the simple, unexpected gift of beauty -- flowers!
Co-Founders
(aka Extraordinary Mother-Daughter Duos!)
Lauren Elie
Lauren is a Houston native and co-founder of Flower Power Gives. Lauren attended Awty International School since she was 3 and is fluent in French. Lauren is passionate about volleyball, scuba dives and skis. She is a triplet with two brothers, Gaston and Glenn.
Jordan Fein
Jordan is a Houston native and co-founder of Flower Power Gives. She is an accomplished pianist, enjoys volleyball and basketball and is an avid traveler; having visited Nepal, India, Antarctica and Tibet. Her brother, Isaac, is a helpful Flower Power volunteer and she attended Kinkaid.
Gina Gaston Elie
Gina is a television news journalist at KTRK-TV. She is a native of Santa Barbara, California and graduate of the University of Southern California. She is an active supporter of the Children's Museum of Houston, Making It Better, Easter Seals and March of Dimes. She is married to Mario Elie.
Kelli Cohen Fein
Dr. Fein is a pediatric radiologist and adjunct faculty member at UT Health's McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics. She is a native Houstonian active in supporting the Houston Symphony, Medical Bridges, the Health Museum and the Holocaust Museum. She is fluent in French and married to Martin Fein.
Executive Board
Houston Chapter:
Emma and Monica Fulton
Gina Gaston Elie
Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein
Rebeca and Mabel Crichton
Gillian and Ashley Conoscenti
Beaumont Chapter
Founders
Loni and Camille Briggs
The Beaumont Chapter of Petal Power launched in October of 2019, when Loni and Camille Briggs extended the Houston non-profit to Beaumont, Texas. Petal Power (formerly, Flower Power Gives) has salvaged flowers for more than 20 organizations and passed along the
bouquets to nearly 20 non-profits, which include nursing homes, shelters, psychiatric hospitals, veterans hospitals, Ronald McDonald House, transitional homes, and low-income housing developments. In its first year, approximately $220,000 in flowers were salvaged
and shared. Loni has enlisted the help of her friends and classmates to assist in salvaging and distributing bouquets.
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