News & Updates

• Festival of Trees

  This holiday season, Granite Park’s Peer Leadership Class participated in the Festival of Trees to benefit Primary Children’s Hospital. Each semester for the past year, Peer Leadership students at Granite Park have received a service-learning grant from Project Give, which allows them to select and direct their own service project. Last year, students supported The Road Home homeless shelter with their grant. This semester, the students decided to use the grant to donate a Christmas Tree to the annual Festival of Trees, held at the South Towne Expo Center. The students chose the theme “Enchanted Winter,” purchased a tree and the ornaments, then traveled to the Expo Center to decorate the tree on November 28^th. The tree turned out wonderfully, and sold at the Festival for over $1000!
  

  Students also raised money for Primary Children’s Hospital by holding a “Change War” between the 7^th, 8^th, and 9^th grades to see which grade could raise the most money to support their efforts. The Granite Park student body raised over $300! Not only did the project benefit a good cause, but also it taught the Peer Leadership students the value of service and how to lead others to do positive things.

  
  

  
  

• Happy Thanksgiving

  

  The Project Give Foundation wishes you a Thanksgiving filled with blessings! We want to share a story from Markham middle school who chose to have a Thanksgiving Dinner with their Project Give Grant to encourage students at their school to count their blessings and have a happy Thanksgiving.

• Spreading Kind Messages

  
  The kids wrote affirmations and put 1 on every single locker in the middle school.
  Georgetown Middle School

• Car Wash

  
  Carrying a car wash sign down the main street.  We raised over $1200 with the wash/bake sale.

• Bake Sale

  
  This is our group at the car wash with McKinley Rose Nicholas, the toddler who has leukemia.  We are purchasing gift cards for the family of 6.

• Miracles for McKinley

  
  
  

  This is our group at the car wash with McKinley Rose Nicholas, the toddler who has leukemia.  We are purchasing gift cards for the family of 6.