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School Connect: Teacher & Staff Appreciation Gift Cards
Connecting schools to community and building a village of support around them, so every child has the resources and connections they need to reach their potential! This is the Vision of the School Connect Pilot program started this school year at Andersen Middle and Rockwell Elementary schools in Millard.
Project Wee Care (Millard Business Community Foundation) is one of the partners in this effort. Within Reach, area non profits, Churches, businesses and Millard Business Association are other partners.
Two current priorities are Teacher/Staff Appreciation and Food Insecurity.
Appreciate Gift Card Roundup: We are collecting those random gift cards in your ‘junk drawers that you will never use. We’ll use those Gift Cards to present to teachers and staff as part of the Appreciate Your Teachers/Staff efforts. Put those $5 to $25 gift cards to a good use.
You can get the Random Gift Cards to us by:
- Bring them to the Millard Business Association Lunch and Learn Tuesday, April 8, at 11:30 AM, at Centris Federal Credit Union 132nd and Pacific streets
- Drop off at Rockwell Elementary School (6370 S 140th Ave)
- Bring them to the MBA Business and Bagels, April 30, 7:30 to 9 AM, at Music Man Nate’s, 16909 Lakeside Hills Plaza
- Bring them to the MBA Spring Community Collective on Friday, May 2, from 3 to 7 PM at the German American Society.
- Contact Dick Hovorka (402-981-1853, [email protected]).
Millard Business Community Foundation Upcoming Events
Friday, April 18 … Rockwell Elementary School Carnival. An evening of fun activities for the family from 5:15 to 8:15 PM. As part of our Teacher/Staff Appreciation, we are looking for volunteers to help with the games so the teachers and staff can bring their families to enjoy.the festivities. Click here to volunteer: Carnival volunteer.
June 28 thru July 4. Fireworks Sales on the northwest corner of 144th and Center streets.
Thursday, September 18. Annual Millard Business Association/Millard Business Community Foundation Golf Scramble at Pacific Springs golf club. 9 AM shot gun start followed by awards luncheon. Proceeds to support scholarships to high school seniors, Project Wee Care to provide a ‘handup’ to 300 plus nominated families, and the School Connect program.
Saturday, December 13. Project Wee Care North Pole Family Day. 9 AM to 3 PM. Providing Hope to 300 plus nominated families with food, food vouchers, gifts for all, connections to non profits for ongoing services, and a fun family holiday event.
2025 Project Wee Care Planning Team Opportunities
Planning is underway for Project Wee Care 2025. We are building our teams and looking for volunteers to help us impact our families in 2025. Here are some of the team members we’re looking for to help us over the next few months:
* Website Coordination: work with a website professional to update the website, make changes, and keep the information current;
* Social Media: continue to build our social media opportunities
* Sponsorships: help revise and develop sponsorship opportunities for businesses and organizations. Contact existing and new sponsors.
* Data base management: volunteer on team to manage our family data base and review the family nomination process
* Speakers Bureau: make presentations to civic groups, organizations, business networking groups, non profits, and businesses.
* Organize special events throughout the year (Kickoff, Diaper Wrapping, food bagging, etc.).
Click on following link to indicate interest in being a part of the Planning Team or to simply ask for additional information.
2025 Co Chairs Named
Co Chairpeople have been named for 2025 for Project Wee Care and the Annual Millard Business Community Foundation/Millard Business Association Golf Scramble.
Project Wee Care has four co chairpeople leading the way in 2025. LeeAnn Kirchner, Dana Freeman, Dan Freeman and Dick Hovorka are leading the effort to provide Hope to 300 plus families.
Deborah Walters and Hailey Mendicino are the co chairpeople for the 21st Annual Golf Scramble.
LeeAnn and Dana are pictured at the Target Shopping Day.
If you are interested in helping with the organizational team for either of these events, please email [email protected].
