Charles F. Brush High School

• The Holiday Families Program, sponsored by Student Congress, provided gifts

and food for 20 families in the District.

• Working with the Lyndhurst mayor’s office and the Consortium on Aging, Brush

donated food items for 30 seniors and their families who are truly in need in

our community.

• Students at ArcTech will donate their time at a local food bank and present

a $500 check to the agency to assist them in fulfilling their mission.

• Tenth grade AVID students assisted the Fatima Family Center with the packing

and distribution of Thanksgiving baskets.

Memorial Junior High School

• Every homeroom participated in Coats for Kids.

• Proceeds from the monthly staff Jeans Day are donated to the charity selected

by the winning staff member of a random drawing. Recent donations have been

made to The Upside of Downs and Hospice of the Western Reserve.

• Students collected necessities for the school’s Shoebox Holiday Donation,

which benefited more than 30 local families.

• A food drive with the goal of filling a large barrel with white rice and beans will

support families affected by the earthquake in Haiti last year.

• The girls of the JEWELS program sold pies for the holidays. Proceeds will

benefit the Takoya Thomas Scholarship Fund.

• The annual Hoops for Hearts student vs. staff basketball game raised more than

$1,000 this year for the American Heart Association.

Greenview Upper Elementary School

• Students coordinated a canned food drive to benefit recipients of the Cleveland

Food Bank.

• The Greenview PTA organized a winter clothing drive donating hats, gloves,

and scarves to those in need in our community.

• Students and staff members have joined Sunview in the 100,000 Shoes Project

to collect shoes for the needy.

• Staff raised money through the popular “blue jeans day” project, in which

all proceeds are used to purchase gift cards that will be donated to needy families.

Rowland Elementary

• MAC Scholars, Rubies and Future Teachers of America sponsored a food drive.

• The school also coordinated a mitten drive (based off the story “The Mitten”

retold by Jim Aylesworth) as well as donated gifts and needed items to several

families with the help of some local churches.

Sunview Elementary

• The 100,000 Shoes Project collected shoes for those in need.

• First Grade Teacher Jaime Young sponsored “Stockings for Soldiers.” Families donated requested goods to put in the stockings; stockings will be sent to soldiers.

• The PTA coordinated a Giving Tree to benefit families and senior citizens in the area.

Requested items included clothes, books, stamps, canned goods, etc.

• Our students created holiday snowflake decorations for the Tri-City Consortium on Aging’s winter luncheons.

Adrian Elementary

• MAC Scholars and Rubies collected over 800 food items for the South Euclid Community Center’s annual food drive.

• MAC Scholars and Rubies visited Greens of Lyndhurst Nursing Home to spread some holiday cheer to the residents.