Community Service
School-Wide Service Project: Spring 2012
STMM school will participate in Catholic Parish Outreach’s (CPO) “Feed A Family” food drive this week (Tuesday, April 17-Friday, 20). This food drive is being in held in conjunction with the STMM parish food drive next weekend (April 21-22). Any non-perishable food items may be brought into the school lobby beginning Tuesday. Our efforts will help to replenish the Catholic Parish Outreach food bank after the Easter holiday.
Did you know?
- CPO is the largest food pantry in the Triangle
- 85% of CPO's food is donated
- CPO gave a week’s worth of groceries to over 10,000 people in January 2012
- CPO distributed 2.5 million pounds of groceries to an average of 8,700 people a month in 2011
- During Thanksgiving week 2011, CPO served a record 270 families in a single day
- Clients are eligible to receive a week’s worth of groceries every 30 days
- CPO met these needs with 2 staff people and 1300 volunteers
- Last October STMM school collected over 4,000 food items
School-Wide Service Projects: Advent 2011
1. The Giving Tree. We are collecting gift cards from Target and Wal-Mart to help purchase gifts for 400 local needy children. There are envelopes in the homerooms and in the office for donations.
2. Saint Nick Shoe Drive, Dec 5-9: the 2nd grade will be collecting new and gently used shoes in bins in the school lobby.
3. Meg's Smile, Dec 8-9: This is a foundation the 6-8th grade will be raising money for to help create "wishes" for terminally ill children in our local community. The 6th grade will host a bake sale next Thursday and Friday (Dec 8/9) during all lunches and the 7/8 graders will be having a dance to raise money for this organization.
School-Wide Service Projects: Fall 2011
1. Pet Food collection: Oct 3-7. Kindergarten coordinated this project in honor of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. We collected 200 items for dogs, including 160 cans of food, and 235 items for cats including 21 bags of dry cat food.
2. Non-Perishable Food Collection: October 12-18. Our MLSM is heading up this project to benefit the food pantry of the Catholic Parish Outreach organizaion. Canned goods and other non-perishable items can be donated in the school lobby.
3. Terracycle Project: October 27 – November 4. Sponsored by the MLSM - the kick off for this will be after Mass on Oct. 20. It is a 'green' project, where the students will collect the wrappers from their Halloween candy. All wrappers are sent to an organization called Terracycle; that organization recycles the wrappers into colorful book bags, pencil pouches, etc. The earnings then help 3rd world countries with food, medical supplies, and water. The MLSM students are very excited about this project and have been planning it since last spring.
4. Cards for Wounded Soldiers: Ongoing, monthly.
