Every Child Deserves School Supplies

Summary

Help Schoolhouse Supplies purchase backpacks for 9,000 students in need! 46% of students in Portland Public Schools live at or below the poverty line, making basic school supplies a luxury.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Through our backpack give-away program, Tools for Schools, we partner local companies with high-need elementary schools. The sponsorship allows the companies to give every child in their school a backpack full of new school supplies. Schoolhouse Supplies needs your help to cover the cost of the 9,000 backpacks we will be giving out in September 2009. Each back pack costs $3.65 - so every donation helps!

How will this project solve this problem?

General fundraising including mail campaigns and small events, will help Schoolhouse Supplies reach our goal.

Potential Long Term Impact

Students who arrive at school prepared with the tools they need to succeed, experience higher self confidence and are more ready to learn that those who lack those basic supplies. Additionally, teachers will spend less of their own money on supplies

Project Message

No longer do I see a few privileged students with expensive-looking backpacks while other children are without. Everyone is privileged! What a boost to a child's self-esteem.
- Susan Foxman, Vestal Elementary School Principal

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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