Chesapeake Schools have embraced Change Our World in a Big Way!

Chesapeake Schools have embraced the Change Our World Promotion big time! I had the pleasure to be present for 2 days there this week at 2 different schools. I wanted to submit a brief write up on how those two days went and how each school designed their own fund raisings in a unique way.

Deep Creek HS - Day 1

Donna Lamb, the foodservice manager there, embraces fund raising as a common thing in her cafeteria year round. When we approached her about showcasing her school as a GCNF contributor, she openly welcomed it.

She, coincidentally enough, had already started the week before collecting money for the local food bank because she had seen on the news that the Chesapeake area food bank was low on funds. She decided to do the fundraisers side-by-side and split the proceeds between the two organizations.

With the materials sent to her for the Change Our World event, she transformed her cafeteria into a fundraising haven. It was beautifully decorated with displays everywhere inviting the students to contribute to the causes. The first day alone, she raised nearly $100 and plans to raise funds till the end of May. Her goal is $500.

Crestwood Intermediate - Day 2

Renee Swank, designed her own unique, interactive spin on the promo. She designed different colored coins for each grade level. A student can earn "coins" by the amount they donate for their grade as well as their classroom. She asks each student to write his or her name and homeroom on each colored coin. She then writes how many "coins" on each one they donated. She sits at a table throughout lunch and allocated the coins with tape and the kids ran over to a map on the wall and put up their coins on the map. At the end of the day, she adds up all the coins by grade and homeroom and notes it. At the end of the month, she will announce a winning homeroom for each grade and we are going to do a pizza and ice cream party for each of them. The coins earned are as follows:

$.01-.25 — 1 coin
$.26-.50 — 2 coin
$.51-.75 — 3 coin
$.76-1.00 — 4 coin

Renee started this fundraiser last week and has already surpassed her goal of $250. While spending the day, she introduced me to children who had exceptional stories to share.

One 3rd grader found change totaling $1.87 solely by cleaning the floor of her Mom and Dad's cars. Another 3rd grader got money from her own savings and by lobbying her grandmother and mother. A 4th grader went around to her entire family at home and collected money from them. A 5th grader has used his weekly allowance to donate and will do so until the event ends.

Thank you to all for your support and contribution.

VINNY GIACINTO
Regional Sales Manager - School Foodservice Division Schwan's Food Service, Inc.

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Beavercreek, Ohio - City Schools' Change our World Report Card

The milk bottles have been emptied and the money has all been counted. Today a check has was sent to the Global Child Nutrition Foundation in the amount of $2239.53 for the Change our World campaign. That amount, combined with additional monies that were deposited in the district's name from purchases of Schwan's pizza and J&J pretzels should bring us just about to the goal of $2500. Our students were very generous and the staff encouraged a little friendly competition to keep them giving during the entire month of April!

Sue Pope and Natasha Nuttbrock's hard work earned their students a pizza party at Ferguson. Mrs. Kunk's students at Shaw will also get a pizza party since they had the largest donation of any elementary class. In the Lunchlady competition, we had two milk bottles turned in with over $100 in change. They were from Sharon Millsap, Beavercreek High School manager, and Margarita Greenleaf, Fairbrook Elementary School manager. Additional thanks go out to Angie Creech for the great bulletin board and photos from the fundraising efforts of her business law classes! Maddie Pfirrman, a third grade student at Main Elementary, touched us all by donating nearly $50 of her saved allowance money.

Thanks to Reiter Dairy for donating the milk bottles, and to Victoria Maxwell for putting the Change our World labels on them. And thanks to each and every one of you who made a donation. Even if it was just a little change, it has helped to change our world by proving the foundation for a school feeding program in a country where there is no such program.

Thanks again, JoAnne Robinett, Supervisor, Student Nutrition

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Montgomery Intermediate Goes Global on Earth Day

Montgomery Intermediate School in Montgomery, Texas, took part in the "Change Our World" Campaign to raise student awareness about global child hunger and encourage global citizenship the week of April 21, 2008.

This campaign is a joint effort of the School Nutrition Association and the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF). Using Earth Day, April 22, as ingathering day, each student was asked to contribute at least a quarter to this effort. Montgomery Intermediate ended up raising $258.25 to forward on to GCNF.

"This is the first time we have participated in a fundraising effort for a cause with our students," stated Carolyn Watson, Director of Child Nutrition. "I appreciate Principal Jada Mullins helping us create student awareness of this growing problem. Their excitement to give to other children across the globe was inspiring."

Schwan Food Service, Inc. also donated funds to this cause in the name of Montgomery ISD based on the purchase of featured new products.

"We were able to introduce our students to two new pizza products with whole grain crust and discover student acceptability of this product and give to global hunger at the same time. What a win-win," said Ms. Watson.

The U.S. Congress has recognized April as Global Child Nutrition Month. Nearly 300 million of the world's children are caught in the debilitating cycle of poverty and hunger. The Global Child Nutrition Foundation wants to end child hunger by providing expertise and a proven track record in creating and sustaining school feeding programs in underdeveloped countries.

Tina Bozarth, cafeteria manager at Montgomery Intermediate stated, "It was energizing to see the most wonderful students giving from their hearts."

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