Each year, the Student Council selects a worthy charity to support as part of our mission to be civically engaged and give back to our local community. This year, the Student Council chose to support The Colorado Cancer Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that focuses on treatment and palliative care, as well as medical research and education at the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. According to their website, the foundation has given more than a hundred thousand dollars to oncology research, while providing life-saving support to men, women, and children in need throughout the State of Colorado.
Middle school Charity Week will kick off on Monday, March 11. Students can participate in fun, themed dress-up days all week, and we’ll close out the week with Middle School Dodgeball for Dollars on Friday, March 15. The two biggest fundraisers for Charity Week are Dodgeball for Dollars and sales of the Charity Week 2024 t-shirt. Last week, the student council asked middle schoolers to design this year’s t-shirt. The winner of the t-shirt design contest is eighth grader Livi Calahan! Congratulations, Livi!
T-shirts are available in MySchoolBucks from today through 3 p.m. on Friday, March 1. To have the shirts ready to hand out during Charity Week, we cannot extend the deadline so late orders will not be accepted. The shirt will be white, and the design will be printed in blue and red. Elementary and middle school students may wear the shirt to school with uniform bottoms starting on Monday, March 11, through the end of the school year. Next year, students may wear the shirt on Spirit Days. The cost of the t-shirt is $20. The class with the highest t-shirt sales will win a pizza party! All proceeds, less the shirt printing cost, will go to The Colorado Cancer Foundation.
You can also choose to donate directly to The Colorado Cancer Foundation via MySchoolBucks. The donation link will be open through March 15.
Thanks for supporting Charity Week!
