Back To School Drive
HISTORY & VALUE
Our Back to School drive began in 2005.
The 5 year history has provided educational supplies to 2,556 local children with diverse needs.
Note worthy events for 2009:
- State of Indiana - Expanded our efforts to Indiana namely in Brookville at the Brookville Elementary school making the back to school project at Tri-State event.
- McDonald's (Kilroy Management) - Donated "Be Our Guest" cards which were directly given to the children.
- Humana - Received donation of backpacks from their headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky which the children received.
- Doscher's - Donated their famous French chew bars for the children.
- Perfetti Van Melle - Donated their wonderful Airhead candies which the children received.
- Community Press/Suburban Life Newspaper - Amanda Hopkins done a wonderful article and included a nice picture as well which landed on the front page of the August 2009 edition of the newspaper.