Texas barely regulates this. That is the risk.
Most charities soliciting in Texas register with nobody, and there is no general professional solicitor licence or bond to hold. Which means in Houston nothing external stops an agency behaving badly — no state filing, no bond to forfeit, no agent registration to lose. The standard has to come from the agency, or it doesn't exist.
- No general charity registrationThe Texas Attorney General states it plainly: most charities and nonprofits are not required to register with the state.
- Three narrow exceptionsLaw-enforcement telephone solicitation, public safety organizations, and veterans organizations each register and bond under their own acts.
- A posted sign is legal noticeUnder Texas Penal Code § 30.05 a sign at the entrance is notice that entry is forbidden. Ignoring it is a Class B misdemeanor.
What Texas does and doesn't ask of you.
Worth stating accurately, because the sector's usual answer — "we're registered in every state we work" — is not a meaningful claim in Texas, and a development director who knows that will notice.
No state registration, with three exceptions
Texas has no general charitable solicitation registration statute. Registration attaches only to law-enforcement-related telephone solicitation (Bus. & Com. Code ch. 303), public safety organizations and their solicitors (Occ. Code ch. 1803), and veterans organizations and their solicitors (Occ. Code ch. 1804). Each of those carries its own registration and surety bond.
Houston registers the solicitation, not the solicitor
The city does run charitable solicitation registration, under Code of Ordinances ch. 36 art. V, through Administration & Regulatory Affairs. Class A covers soliciting occupants of vehicles on public streets and runs 30 days at a time; Class B is annual and prohibits on-street solicitation. A closing statement is due within 120 days of expiry, and future registrations can be refused without it.
The suburbs are where the permits live
Houston's permit catalogue contains no door-to-door peddler licence — but the surrounding cities do. Missouri City registers the company and each individual, issues a badge that must be displayed, and limits solicitation at private residences to 9am–9pm. A metro campaign crosses a dozen of these, and each has its own answer.
Sources: the Texas Attorney General on registration and filings and the City of Houston's charitable solicitation permit page.
When the state won't make you, the contract has to.
We run the same programme in Houston that we run in Georgia, where the Secretary of State would otherwise make us. Not because it is required here, but because the only thing a donor experiences is the person in front of them, and they cannot tell which state's rules apply.
- Every person trained and certified on your campaign before they speak to anyone
- Photo ID worn and offered, with a name the donor can repeat back
- Every sign-up verified three ways — digital thumbprint signature, SMS confirmation and a recorded verification
- Posted "no soliciting" signs honoured as a rule of the campaign, not as a legal minimum
- Suburban permits and badges held before a crew works that city, not after a complaint
- Signs carry real weight in TexasTexas Penal Code § 30.05 makes a posted sign at the entrance legal notice that entry is forbidden — a Class B misdemeanor to ignore. In a state with no permit regime, this is the enforcement mechanism, and it runs against the rep personally.
- A city cannot ban canvassing outrightMunicipalities may license and regulate peddlers, and may require them to honour no-solicitor signs, but they may not prohibit approaching private residences altogether — the constitutional line drawn in Watchtower v. Village of Stratton (2002).
- The cooling-off rule applies everywhereThe FTC's Cooling-Off Rule, 16 CFR 429, gives a three-day right to cancel a sale made at the buyer's home. Our reps hand it over rather than hoping it goes unmentioned.
Houston organizations we run programs for.
Named with permission, present tense. We don't publish their results on their behalf, and we don't use their logos.
The fastest-growing metro in the United States.
Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands reached 7.9 million people in the Census Bureau's July 2025 estimates and added 126,720 in a single year — the largest numeric gain of any metro in the country. New arrivals are the single best predictor of a productive face-to-face market, because nobody has asked them yet.
The Texas Medical Center alone employs more than 120,000 people and handles around ten million patient encounters a year, which concentrates both a workforce and a cause landscape in a way few cities match.
For commercial clients, Houston sits inside the competitive ERCOT retail market: roughly 85% of Texas electricity consumers are in competitive choice areas served by more than 170 retailers. Residential energy is a live field channel here in a way it simply is not in Michigan.
We hire across greater Houston year round.
Hourly base plus bonus, W-2 with taxes withheld, paid from your first day of training. No experience needed. Where a suburb requires a badge or a background check, we hold it before you work that city.
Run a campaign in Houston.
Tell us the goal and the budget. We'll come back with the municipalities we'd work, the permits each one needs, and what we hold ourselves to where Texas doesn't.