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Ways Your Organization or Business Can Help
Keep Kids in School
Financial Contribution
- Sponsor the Communities In Schools (CIS) annual fundraiser, Food For Thought
- Make a charitable, tax-deductible donation
- Award CIS a grant for programming
- Participate in the Adopt-A-Student program ($1,250 per year = only $104.17 per month)
- Host an afternoon golf tournament for your customers with CIS as the beneficiary
Human Contribution
- Host a "Friend Raiser" at work. Provide a lunchtime setting where CIS staff can educate your employees about the dropout problem and CIS as a solution
- Host a fundraiser and donate proceeds to CIS, e.g. "fun runs," inter-departmental contests, bake sales
- Adopt a campus for activities throughout the year
- Adopt a family for the holidays
- Employees speak at Career Fairs or host tours of students to the workplace
- Provide volunteer tutors and mentors
- Provide volunteers for one-time group activities. Employees host holiday parties or a field day; provide funds for transportation and entrance fees to museums, university visits, or career day activities; provide incentives and rewards like movie passes, toiletries, or gift cards.
- Employees serve on existing CIS fundraising committees. Groups find auction items, get sponsors, sell tickets, and/or actually work the event.
Ways Keeping Kids in School
Helps Your Business
- Builds a more educated workforce for the corporate community.
- Builds a safety net for your employees' families = less absenteeism to deal with their children's problems.
- Builds staff morale by providing opportunities for groups to work together on meaningful ways to make the community better.
- Shows you are a good neighbor in the neighborhood where your corporation is located or in which your employees live.
- Keeps taxes low by decreasing the number of dropouts who depend on public assistance or spend time in prison.
For more information on how your business or organization can get involved, contact us at (512) 464-9716.
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