Project Give helped me to realize just how lucky we are. Stephen Lee - Ridgecrest Intermediate School
Leadership gives you assets for the future.
Don't stop giving...it's really great! Stephen Lee - Ridgecrest Intermediate School
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 28th. 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 7th, 8th, and 9th 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.
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.
