Funding

I have been funded three times in the last week for my class. It has been amazing to see the support that I have been getting. I received about $1000 worth of supplies for my class from a local engineering firm and two fundings from donorschoose.org both totaling around $500. My theory is, don't sit around complaining because you will be waiting a long time to get anything.

Here is one of two articles that ran locally.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Kudos: Mead & Hunt Inc. Lends A Hand

On August 5, the Learning Center at Bannon Creek Elementary School received a call from a local engineering firm Mead & Hunt, Inc. They had found the classroom through adoptaclassroom.org and wanted to help a Natomas school after hearing about supply needs through the local media.

Later that same week, the company had a fundraiser for the Learning Center. The next Monday, Mead & Hunt reps brought six large underbed storage containers full of supplies, along with 60 boxes of Kleenex, and 5 backpacks full of paper goods worth approximately $1,000.

"It was an amazing sight to see, knowing how much my students needed supplies as well as my colleagues and their students," says teachers Lisa Claussen. "My fellow teachers were so excited to be able to get things that they really needed and could use right now."

Claussen says the best part of the contributions is that four Bannon Creek students have been able to get the new backpacks they needed.

"To see a child with no backpack or sharing a backpack with another sibling, is truly heartbreaking," she explains. "They are overjoyed to have their own bag to bring to school."

Richard Harris, Kristen Michaelis (both employees of Mead & Hunt, Inc.), Lisa Claussen (Bannon Creek Learning Center Teacher, & Linda Wilkinson (Principal-Bannon Creek)