countdown to success - kaye prox food bank 2014 school supply project
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COUNTDOWN TO SUCCESS
2014School Supply Project
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• Incarnation Catholic Church• First Reformed Church of Tampa• Lutheran Church of Our Saviour• Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church• Westtown Church• World of Westchase
Get the Word Out
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• 15,000 items…– 40,000 sheets of filler paper– 3500 pens and pencils– 1000 notebooks– 675 glue sticks– 275 backpacks– …and much more
Collect Supplies and Backpacks
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Inventory and Organize Supplies
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• Dozens of volunteers helped package supplies three different mornings
• More than 350 backpacks were filled and ready to give out
Fill Backpacks
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• Backpacks and supplies provided to 190 families– 377 backpacks full of supplies to
• 197 elementary students• 180 middle and high school students
Give Out Backpacks
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100% Happy Kids & Teens
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• Special thanks to…– Teens Maya Barrett and Isabel Giovannetti for
spending a week’s worth of their summer vacation planning and coordinating the project.
– Our partner churches for advertising the project, collecting supplies, and recruiting volunteers.
– Lynne O’Reilly for working to design and print posters and reminder cards.
– The World of Westchase for publishing articles about the school supply drive.
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• And thanks to…– More than 50 organizations and individuals for
donating funds, school supplies and backpacks.– Chris Oliva, manager of Walgreen’s on Tampa
Road, for arranging for the food bank to purchase back packs at cost.
– More than 4 dozen volunteers for giving 300 hours to support the project.
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Donors + Volunteers = Success!
Because of all of you, this year the food bank was able to help 40% more students be ready to start the school year.