Donate Snacks or Prizes
Healthy Snacks
We provide healthy snacks for our students at the beginning of each session. Modeling good eating habits is an important part of our program. Especially needed are:
Prizes
We also provide prizes for our students that serve as incentives. Students earn points for arriving on time, for their academic achievement, and for good behavior. Then they are able to “buy” items for themselves or their family members with their hard-earned points. Students who choose to save their points each week are rewarded with Interest points, teaching the value of delayed gratification. Many of our students receive no allowance at home. Our prize system empowers students to help provide for themselves. It also allows them to be generous and buy gifts for others!
We provide healthy snacks for our students at the beginning of each session. Modeling good eating habits is an important part of our program. Especially needed are:
- Fresh fruit (please call us before purchasing)
- Individually wrapped snacks such as granola bars, sandwich crackers, pure fruit strips, Nutri-grain bars, Cheez-its, etc.
Prizes
We also provide prizes for our students that serve as incentives. Students earn points for arriving on time, for their academic achievement, and for good behavior. Then they are able to “buy” items for themselves or their family members with their hard-earned points. Students who choose to save their points each week are rewarded with Interest points, teaching the value of delayed gratification. Many of our students receive no allowance at home. Our prize system empowers students to help provide for themselves. It also allows them to be generous and buy gifts for others!
Needed prizes include:
Items that we don’t currently need (because we have ample supply):
- dolls of color (variety of skin tones)
- Legos
- (Generic) Cordless ear buds ($10-15)
- small packs of Pokemon cards
- silly putty
- superhero toys
- Hot Wheels cars
- diaries/journals
- sidewalk chalk
- marker kits and art supplies
- mechanical pencils
- hair ties and hair accessories
- Playdoh singles and kits
- science kits for elementary age students
- remote control cars
- children's watches
- Nike, Adidas, Jordan socks
- sports equipment
- bikes
- variety of toys for 7-11 year old students, boys and girls ($2-10)
Items that we don’t currently need (because we have ample supply):
- crayons
- puzzles
- colored pencils
- board games
- spiral notebooks
- construction paper
- picture frames
- Barbie clothes