Again and again you hear the mission of Communities In Schools is about connecting community resources to schools to help young people be successful. But what does this mean?
Here is an example of how we fulfill our mission with the support of the community.
A Seattle board member received a message from a moving & storage company stating they had furniture, office supplies and PC equipment in usable condition but about to be disposed of. Could anyone benefit from this donation?
Communities In Schools secured 100 computers for three Seattle schools computer labs.
“We immediately contacted the company and learned that they had over 100 fully functioning computers to donate,” said Janeal Stevens, Seattle program coordinator. “We contacted Seattle Public Schools to inquire if they could use the computers and a unanimous YES was the response!”
But how to get them to the schools? Janeal then contacted a partner from the annual Stuff the Bus school supplies drive, TransGroup Worldwide Logistics who was eager once again to support our mission and offered free transportation of the computers to the schools.
With determination, a few e-mails, and the help of the community, Communities In Schools was able to provide 100 computers and monitors to computer labs in Queen Anne and McDonald Elementary Schools and Hamilton Middle School. All with no cost to the school district or to us.
Now that’s something that computes!
