Tuesday, December 6, 2016
WE Speaker Megan Henning Visits Paul Revere
Thanks to the amazing Megan from WE, who inspired us yesterday morning. Paul Reveres Community Service Club, now has a new idea with lots of potential and includes fun and friendly competition. Club members enjoyed watching videos that included stories about what WE Day is and how it became such a huge non profit. She even went a step further and told us stories about her life, and how when she was our age she was scared to do certain things. She used to hate going to sleepovers but then loved them when her mom made her go. She told us about her love for the Green Bay Packers and how she was born in Wisconsin, and told us about other places she used to live in. It was fun listening to her story. Check out her bio below.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Operation Gratitude 2016
Our annual candy drive for Operation Gratitude was a record breaker. We broke our previous record of 460 lbs collected this year and collected a whopping 600 lbs of candy!!! Candy was shipped to our service members over seas through the Operation Gratitude organization as a thank you for their service. This is a program we participate in via Pacific Palisades Pediatric Dentistry (PPPD). For every pound of candy we collect PPPD gives us $1. So that's $600 towards our fundraising goal of $20,000, which will go to charity. Thank you to all who donated their halloween candy. Oh, and we made this a raffle as well. For every cup of candy donated students received one raffle ticket. We raffled gift cards from Starbucks and AMC.
Special thanks to Ms. Levy and Mrs. Gardner for picking up the candy from Revere and delivering it to PPPD every day!
Special thanks to Ms. Levy and Mrs. Gardner for picking up the candy from Revere and delivering it to PPPD every day!
Button Sale was a HUGE success!
Our first fundraiser of the year was our now annual button sale. A few years ago we created a Donors Choose account and asked for a button machine. The kind people out there in Donors Choose land came through and we got the button machine. This year we raised in just over $1,400. Seems like a lot, but just a drop in the bucket of reaching our 2016-2017 fundraising goal of $20,00,,,yes, $20,000. Aye carrumba! We're on our way though.
WE Day
Hello everyone out there!
Well, it's been a while since we've posted anything and we've done sooooo much over the past year. I'll try to recap a few things we've done.
Last year, we raised over $800 by selling buttons that we donated to an organization called Free The Children. That money went to clean water projects in Haiti and earned us some tickets to attend WE Day at the Forum in Inglewood. It was a great day. We got to hear people talk about all the amazing things they're doing to help people. Demi Lavato and Selena Gomez were among the many people performing and speaking. We hope to raise even more money money this year for various causes to earn our tickets to this year's WE Day. Below is our group picture and the link for more info on WE Day.
https://www.we.org/we-day/
At the end of the year we raised $2,500, which we gave to 3 charities that everybody voted on. The 3 charities were:
1. Pug Nation LA - Pug Nation rescues pugs and finds loving and caring homes for them. www.pugnationla.org
2. Super Lemonade Brothers - This charity was founded by one of our own, Sean Botansky, who lost a friend to cancer and while visiting him the hospital got the idea to make the lives of children in hospitals a little more enjoyable by donating new toys.
3. NKLA (Best Friends Animal Society) - NKLA (No-Kill Los Angeles) is an initiative led by Best Friends Animal Society, bringing together passionate individuals, city shelters and an entire coalition of animal welfare organizations to end the killing of homeless pets in L.A. city shelters by the year 2017. nkla.org.
That was just a quick recap of last school year.
Thanks to everyone who supported us and for making it a great year!
Cheers!
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