2013 Fall School Supply Drive

The Fall 2013 School Supply Drive was a great success!  With the help of Alderman Cappleman's office, we collected hundreds of dollars in donations and school supplies.  It was so exciting to see the donations rolling in and piling up.  Such a wonderful feeling!  Thank you to all who donated supplies, money, gift cards, time, space, muscle . . . we are so inspired by your generosity and willingness to come together as a community.   

To help you visualize the impact we all made together, here are some statistics on what we collected:

• $525 in Paypal donations
• $505 in gift card and mailed/personal/business donations
• $1000 from Comcast
• 13,544 pencils
• 279 highlighters
• 107 scissors
• 263 ounces of hand sanitizer
• 420 glue sticks
• 759 pens
• 486 markers

• 2816 crayons
• 139 packages of looseleaf paper
• 211 spiral notebooks
• 128 composition notebooks
• 151 folders
• 85 rulers
• 75 binders
• 114 rolls of toilet paper
• 183 erasers
• 90 reams of copy paper

All of these donations were divided up and delivered to the six schools in our ward (Brennemann, Courtenay, Disney, Greeley, McCutcheon, and Uplift).  Imagine how many students we were able to help with these supplies!  Unfortunately, though, there are over 3,000 students in the 46th Ward who come from low-income families so we are always in need of additional supplies to pass on to them.  We hope to hold another supply drive before the end of the school year so stay tuned for more information!