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H.E.L.P., the Charity, awarded a grant to Sweet Home High School. ” I teach a ‘teacher cadet’ class where high school students learn about how to develop a lesson and then develop a hands-on science lesson for elementary-aged students. The lesson has to be science-based, but have a reading or math component to it as well. My students have developed lessons around edible DNA, flying paper airplanes, and the life cycle of a plant. We will be using the funds you awarded us to buy the supplies for the program. Thank you for your generosity!” says science teacher, Michelle Snyder

 

Dr. Melanie Marrone, Director of the Molalla River Academy, recently wrote to thank us for our donation. Here’s what she had to say:

“We would like to express our thanks for your donation of $500.00 to the Molalla River Academy. As a small charter school with limited funding we rely on organizations such as yours to help fund special programs for our students. 

Your generous donation will help many of our students participate in two valuable extra-curricular activities: Math Olympiads and the Oregon Battle of the Books. Our students are very excited for the opportunity to compete in these events!”

Figrao’s Pizza grant program H.E.L.P. (Helping Education with Love and Pizza) provides grants to U.S. schools and other tax-exempt entities to support educational programs. Crivitz Middle/High School recently received one of these $100 grants to purchase a cart full of shared art supplies that will help students in all classrooms, not just the art room.  Pictured with the cart of supplies is Crivitz Middle/High School art teacher, Ms. Klitzke

Mrs. Melanie Sprague, a 2nd-grade teacher at Orchard Hill in the Phoenix Talent School District recently wrote to thank us for our donation. She said, “Thank you Figaros for helping fund our 2nd-grade animal reports. With your kind donation, we were able to get books, posterboards, markers, clay, and other supplies to help our students engage and learn more about their chosen animal. With this funding, we were able to have our 1st graders come into the classrooms and do a walk-about, where the youngers could talk to the 2nd graders about the animal they chose for their project, see the books with amazing pictures of their animals, see a small clay version or plastic toy model of their animal and learn amazing facts!  With your funding, our 2nd-grade students had a much more hands-on approach to learning and doing this report, compared to the normal pencil and paper. Thank you again Figaros and the wonderful HELP Charity program for funding our project! We’re greatly appreciative for all of your support.”

Katie Riley, President of Washington County Kids, recently wrote to thank us for our donation. Here’s what she had to say:

“We are most grateful for the grant we have received from H.E.L.P. The Charity.  These monies will be used for coordinating trainings that we provide each year for providers of out-of-school-time (OST) care for early childhood, after school, and summer programs.  This year we are providing two trainings; one on “Trauma-informed Care” by Corissa Mazurkiewicz, Ph.D., from Pacific University and the other on “De-escalating Negative Behavior” by Megan Linn and Philip Henson, Ph.D., from the Hillsboro Police Department.  Both sessions will allow attendees to receive credit toward their child care credential.  These programs help participants improve the quality of their interactions with children in their care as well as advancing the education they can pass along to the children’s parents to improve their relationship skills.  We greatly appreciate your support for these goals.”

Angela Havlinek, Office Manager at Sherwood Charter School recently wrote to thank us for our donation. She said,

“In July 2022, our school was the lucky recipient of receiving one thousand dollars from the H.E.L.P., The Charity Grant. Our school is so appreciative of the funding. We have used the money to purchase our school a Buddy Bench for our playground area. This bench is somewhere that students who do not have anyone to play with can go and another friend will come to invite them to play. We appreciate the opportunity for inclusiveness that this has created in our playground area and want to thank you for your support towards our fantastic school. 

Thank you so much!”

Fawna Weets from Called to Gather Homeschool Association recently wrote to thank us for our donation. She said,

“On behalf of the Called to Gather Homeschool Co-op (Association), I am writing to thank you for your generous grant. We were awarded $250 from Figaro’s pizza, located in Rochester, Washington. The grant will help keep registration fees nominal, thus allowing for families to participate in our homeschool program. The grant also aids with costs of supplies, such as paper, paint, pencils, textbooks, field trips, and insurance policy coverage. 

 Although our organization is young, we have doubled in size over the past 8 months. Our first quarter had 7 registered families. This current quarter has 15 registered families. There is a tremendous interest due to a high volume of homeschooling families in our rural area. Our organization is unique in the sense it is Christian faith-based. We hold high moral standards, and our purpose/vision is to share Biblical Christian truth, provide a space for families to gather outside of their homes, a place where children are able to decide what activities intrigue them beyond core subject work; and to encourage a development of homeschooling communities local to our area.

 Thank you, again. We are incredibly blessed, and full of gratitude.”

Jenn Stone, Cedar Park Middle School Choir and Band Director, recently wrote to thank us for our donation. She said,

“I want to send a big thank you to H.E.L.P., The Charity for providing the Cedar Park Middle School Band with three new instruments! So many families at our school struggle financially to make ends meet. Thanks to this grant, we are able to lift up and support the kids that really need it. It takes a village…thank you for being part of our village.”

Family Building Blocks, Rich Schultz, Board Chair and Patrice Altenhofen, Executive Director, recently wrote to thank us for our donation. They said,

“Thank you for your generous support of Family Building Blocks in 2021, our 24th year!

Because of you, children fill our Therapeutic Classrooms daily, Home Visitors support families where they live, and parents receive the education they seek to become the parents they want to be.

Because of you, we were able to meet the needs of over 1,200 young children and partner with over 800 families last year.

Because of you, 99% of the children we serve can live safely with their families, avoiding foster care and the devastation of abuse and neglect.

We look forward to partnering with parents and out community in the coming year to ‘Keep Children Safe and Families Together.’”

H.E.L.P., the Charity, awarded a grant to Henry L Slater Grade School. The school in Burns, Oregon wanted to incentivize students’ attendance, behavior and academics.  The last two years have been very trying for the school with COVID. “We are very excited to have this grant money to support, encourage and reward student growth in all areas.  Thank you again for supporting our elementary school,” says Principal Stephanie Lardy