TIMBERLAND CHARTER ACADEMY REFLECTS ON

Students Collect Over $4,000 for Charitable Giving
6/7/2011
As the school year comes to a close, faculty and staff at Timberland Charter Academy, a tuition-free public charter school serving approximately 400 students in grades K-8, are reflecting on the students’ many charitable efforts, invaluable lessons of philanthropy and the commitment to community developed in and outside of the classroom. These efforts aligned perfectly with the school’s ongoing commitment to moral focus.
 
Since September, the Timberland Charter Academy school community has raised more than $4,000 in support of multiple organizations. Students, parents and staff have raised funds, collected food, and donated goods worth thousands of dollars that have been redistributed into the community to support many different organizations.
 
Over the past 10 months, students and staff collected $1,200 for a Gleaners food truck that provided meals for another 200 people in the community, and purchased coats, hats and mittens to help 45 kids endure Michigan’s brutal winter during a coat drive supported by the Muskegon County Sherriff’s Department. Earlier this year, Timberland’s ‘Read and Bleed’ blood drive resulted in the donation of nearly 30 units of blood for the American Red Cross. To celebrate all moms on Mother’s Day, the school recently joined the TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Movers for Moms® program in collecting more than 650 essential items for women staying at Every Woman’s Place, a Muskegon-area shelter assisting women and children in crisis.
 
Additionally, students collected over $2,700 in pennies for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and on special occasions, were allowed to forgo the school uniform and wear jeans and a Timberland t-shirt for a small contribution for a special cause. Recipients of ‘jean day’ donations included the Susan G. Komen cure for breast cancer fund and Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
 
Timberland Charter Academy is committed to developing students’ hearts as well as their minds. For more information, contact Timberland Charter Academy (http://timberland.heritageacademies.com/) at (231) 767-9700.