- Holiday Gifts for Students: As the final initiative for Hill Cares this school year, we will be holding a toy/gift card drive. We will be collecting the toys and wrapping paper in a box in the lobby from now through 12/17. Gift Cards can be dropped in the Main Office in the PTSA Folder. Gifts can be donated in the boxes around the Main Lobby.
Community Potluck and Holiday Drive
5:00-7:00pm November 21st in the Hill lobby
Help us help our community with bus passes, warm weather gear, school supplies, Thanksgiving baskets, holiday gifts and more.
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Are you able to offer help?
On November 21st you can: •Purchase holiday gifts for a Hill student •Purchase bus passes for a Hill student •Bring hats, scarves, socks and other warm gear •Bring food to share |
Would you like to volunteer to help set up. serve hot chocolate, or clean up? Please email rosenblumpalmer@gmail.com to help out! |
Are you looking to receive help with clothing, bus passes, school supplies or holiday gifts?
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Hill has a fund to help with fundamentals.
There are families at Hill that haven’t ever had the luxury of strip steak at dinner. Some of them do not have stoves to cook on. Some of them do not have kitchens to cook in. Many of the middle schoolers that fill the Hill hallways in the morning grab a high five from teachers and a bagged breakfast have had nothing to eat since the school provided lunch yesterday. An alarming percent of our students are homeless. Significantly more than 50% of our students require government assistance to eat.
Food, Shelter, Clothes, Coats, School supplies, Transportation.
These are things a heartbreaking number of Hill families are worrying about right now as you read this letter. Hill has always helped these kids. We stretch our already paper thin budget to buy all students binders. Teachers take money out of their own pockets to buy bus passes for kids who have stayed after school for tutoring.
Still their basic needs aren’t met.
This year we are going to do more. We have established a Hill Cares committee made up of teachers, mental health staff, parents and City Year fellows to oversee our modest fund of $10,000. We are identifying events and programs, like our holiday baskets and coat drive that we already have in place and are putting them under the Hill Cares umbrella. Our popular coat drive is evolving into an even larger event called “Share the Warmth” where we will meet more needs for more families.
We invite you to help us grow the VITAL Hill Cares Basic Needs Fund.
Any amount helps.
Whether or not you can give at this time we hope to see you on November 15th.
There are families at Hill that haven’t ever had the luxury of strip steak at dinner. Some of them do not have stoves to cook on. Some of them do not have kitchens to cook in. Many of the middle schoolers that fill the Hill hallways in the morning grab a high five from teachers and a bagged breakfast have had nothing to eat since the school provided lunch yesterday. An alarming percent of our students are homeless. Significantly more than 50% of our students require government assistance to eat.
Food, Shelter, Clothes, Coats, School supplies, Transportation.
These are things a heartbreaking number of Hill families are worrying about right now as you read this letter. Hill has always helped these kids. We stretch our already paper thin budget to buy all students binders. Teachers take money out of their own pockets to buy bus passes for kids who have stayed after school for tutoring.
Still their basic needs aren’t met.
This year we are going to do more. We have established a Hill Cares committee made up of teachers, mental health staff, parents and City Year fellows to oversee our modest fund of $10,000. We are identifying events and programs, like our holiday baskets and coat drive that we already have in place and are putting them under the Hill Cares umbrella. Our popular coat drive is evolving into an even larger event called “Share the Warmth” where we will meet more needs for more families.
We invite you to help us grow the VITAL Hill Cares Basic Needs Fund.
Any amount helps.
Whether or not you can give at this time we hope to see you on November 15th.
