TOM FENNESSY/MIKE HARDEN BACK-TO-SCHOOL PROJECT
Supplying equality to CENTRAL OHIO school children
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Thanks to our volunteers, our individual donors, and our corporate sponsors, we successfully distributed 9,300 backpacks throughout the Central Ohio community for the 2017-18 school year. We accomplished this tremendous task by partnering with 52 social service agencies and churches to insure K-12 students have the necessary supplies they need to start or continue their educational process.
This also means that we no longer have any other backpacks to offer for this year. However, our goal is to have 10,0000 available for 2018 in an effort to provide as much assistance as possible to students throughout the five counties we serve.
Thanks again to everyone who participated to make the Tom Fennessy/Mike Harden Back-to-School Project a tremendous achievement as we celebrate 20 years of service.
Sincerely,
Terri S. Leist
President
Photo credit YWCA of columbus
This also means that we no longer have any other backpacks to offer for this year. However, our goal is to have 10,0000 available for 2018 in an effort to provide as much assistance as possible to students throughout the five counties we serve.
Thanks again to everyone who participated to make the Tom Fennessy/Mike Harden Back-to-School Project a tremendous achievement as we celebrate 20 years of service.
Sincerely,
Terri S. Leist
President
Photo credit YWCA of columbus
PURPOSE
The Tom Fennessy/Mike Harden Back-to-School Project was initially created to insure kids living in homeless shelters had school supplies. It was named in recognition of two Columbus Dispatch columnists who knew firsthand what it means to struggle. At its inception in 1998, the organization was able to donate over 365 backpacks filled with necessary school supplies. In 2015, the Tom Fennessy/Mike Harden Back-to-School Project filled over 8,600 backpacks with essential school supplies for central Ohio's disadvantaged students, ages kindergarten through high school, without regard to race, religion or gender. This was achieved in conjunction with approximately 38 social service agencies, churches and schools. In total, the organization has filled and distributed over 100,000 backpacks, with necessary school supplies, for children who would ordinarily go without.
We are able to accomplish this due to the generous support of many contributors, but also because we are an organization that is solely comprised of volunteers. We are proud of that because it allows us to keep administrative expenses below one percent of our total budget.
The Tom Fennessy/Mike Harden Back-to-School Project was initially created to insure kids living in homeless shelters had school supplies. It was named in recognition of two Columbus Dispatch columnists who knew firsthand what it means to struggle. At its inception in 1998, the organization was able to donate over 365 backpacks filled with necessary school supplies. In 2015, the Tom Fennessy/Mike Harden Back-to-School Project filled over 8,600 backpacks with essential school supplies for central Ohio's disadvantaged students, ages kindergarten through high school, without regard to race, religion or gender. This was achieved in conjunction with approximately 38 social service agencies, churches and schools. In total, the organization has filled and distributed over 100,000 backpacks, with necessary school supplies, for children who would ordinarily go without.
We are able to accomplish this due to the generous support of many contributors, but also because we are an organization that is solely comprised of volunteers. We are proud of that because it allows us to keep administrative expenses below one percent of our total budget.
