Funding Support:

Kent H. Smith Charitable Foundattion
Friends and Family of Tess Kovach
Charles and Elizabeth Koch Foundation
Helen F. and Louis Stolier Foundation
JoAnn Fabric and Crafts
Our local citizens through "Stuff the Bus" & Shoreby Event

Product Donors:

ShurTech Brands
Silverman's
S. P. Mount Printing Company
Clever Crazes
Staples
Leon Korol
OfficeMax
3M
Mead WestVaco

CLASSROOM TEACHERS FROM 165 SCHOOLS WILL RECEIVE MORE THAN $1.3 MILLION OF FREE SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND DISTRIBUTE THEM TO MORE THAN 70,000 STUDENTS THIS SCHOOL YEAR!

We didn't do it alone…in addition to the donations from national companies, local companies such as JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts, Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Progressive, and Nordson stocked our shelves. This year the National Foundation received a contribution of new office furniture from United Stationers valued at over $12 million. Because of the size of our facility, Cleveland KIN Resource Center received more than $900,000, far more than their "fair share."

If Cleveland did not sponsor and support a Kids In Need Resource Center, that furniture would find its way to the school rooms of some very grateful teachers, they just wouldn't be in our city schools. Local citizens in this year's "Stuff the Bus" event sponsored by Channel 8 stuffed four school buses with school supplies they dropped off throughout the day! These donations coupled with $24,000 raised during our annual fundraising event helped keep the Center stocked with items desperately needed by our schools.

National surveys report that school teachers spend $800 to $1,200 each year to buy supplies for their classrooms. Teachers who receive supplies from the Cleveland Kids In Need Resource Center now can buy books and enrichment materials for their classrooms instead of pencils and paper. Studies also show that some students "play hooky" the first few days of school, embarrassed because they are walking in empty handed without any of the required supplies. Imagine how they feel walking home with a new book bag filled with supplies from our Center.

Each year hundreds of thank you notes are sent to our donors and sponsors written by the students in appreciation of the supplies they have been given by their teachers. Just ask an eight year old, third grade student how she liked the new box of crayons or a notebook that has never been used and she will tell you it was "like Christmas"! The teachers, who come to our Center on their own time after spending over seven hours in a classroom of 35 students report they feel recognized, rewarded and renewed!

If you can help with a financial donation or know of a corporation that can, please look at our sponorship opportunities.