Students at Broadway Elementary School in Grand Junction, Colorado, carried out more than 11-hundred acts of kindness during their parent-teacher organization’s Raise Craze fundraiser. Their efforts included picking up trash, writing notes to first responders, volunteering at the Community Food Bank, and creating “sunshine baskets” for cancer patients. Each act of kindness was marked with a pinwheel planted on the school lawn.
The students raised over $21-thousand, making this the most successful fundraiser in the school PTO’s history and surpassing last year’s total by more than $8-thousand. PTO Co-President Ali Reynolds explains that students asked for donations from friends and family, then “paid it forward” by doing kind deeds. She says the goal was to help teach the children that kindness doesn’t have to cost anything.
The money raised will go toward a new playground, which is expected to cost about $500-thousand and serve both the school and the wider community. The PTO hopes to secure grant funding to complete the project, meanwhile students continue to perform acts of kindness even after the end of the official fundraiser.
Source: GRAND JUNCTION SENTINEL
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