“We reached a limit with our organization at this point with a certain number of board members, certain amount of money we were able to raise.”
That was when she got the idea to join with other groups to launch one big campaign that could help more students. Jay Garant is with the Fairfax County Public School System. He says county officials help to organize the effort.
“We have about 11 not-for-profits and may five or six for profit companies involved. The goal here is to be more efficient and pay more attention to who is covering what. It’s all about communication.”
Jennifer Rose operates a non-profit group called Our Daily Bread. She says it asks people to donate money instead of school supplies.
“Quite frankly, donors today are very busy. They don’t have time to go shopping. So we’re able to stretch the donation dollars better than they could taking advantage of sales.”
This year, Collect for Kids helped 19,500 students at 90 schools. Susan Ungerer says the campaign can be complex. But she says each school receives exactly what its students need.
“In the spring every year, we send out an order form to each school that’s part of our program and they send in a custom order. So it’s all grade appropriate.”
Aimee Monticchio is head of the Langston Hughes Middle School.
“Between 7th and 8th grades, we give out over 200 hundred backpacks a year.”
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