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Adopt-A-Classroom

Adopt-A-Classroom

The District 742 Local Education & Activities Foundation announces the official kickoff of the Adopt-A-Classroom Project for the fall of 2023.  LEAF’s goal is to connect businesses, individuals and groups to specific classrooms to help provide needed supplies that the District is unable to fund.  Supporters can “adopt” a classroom (Early Education, Elementary, Junior High or Senior High) by making a tax-deductible $250 contribution for the needed classroom supplies. (You can, of course, adopt more than one classroom)!

Currently, teachers often spend hundreds of dollars to provide basic supplies for classroom use.  From basics such as permanent markers, pencils, notebooks and clean clothes for elementary children, to the more specialized items like sheet music, science kits, dry ice and mice for snake food; our teachers spend their own money to help insure a quality educational experience. 

Businesses, individuals, grand-parents or groups can choose to adopt a specific classroom at a specific school, or make a $250 donation to LEAF and allow LEAF to choose a classroom randomly from those classrooms that apply for help.  LEAF will then inform the donor of the classroom they have adopted.  The business or individual donor will receive a Certificate of Adoption that identifies the classroom they have adopted.  100% of all proceeds will go directly to the participating classrooms!  In 2022 the St. Cloud Community adopted  173 classrooms with contributions totaling $43,231. 

This is LEAF’s eighth year of the Adopt a Classroom project, which has dispersed $122,600 to 490 classrooms in the previous seven years.  

The teachers of District 742 have moved by this outpouring of community support and continue to express their thanks. Read some of their comments and testimonials here.

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2022 Adopt-A-Classroom Donors

Dan Anderson State Farm Insurance Agency Anonymous
Susanne Barkalow Benson Funeral Home
Bernick’s Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Ginny & Jim Bisek Ken & Nancy Brennan
Brenny Transportation Maggie Brossoit
Peggy Carlson & Chuck Nielsen Barclay & Janet Carriar
Central MN Noon Optimist Club Parents of Chinese Immersion
CMCF Team Members Mary Croat
Jane & Steven Daffinrud Dental Specialists of Minnesota
Dwayne & Cindy Dockendorf Tom Ehlinger, American Family Insurance Agency
Bob & Elizabeth Feigh Jill Fox
Dr. Robert Gardetto Mark & Mary Geller
Courtney Gordon Art & Barb Grachek
Grede LLC Carol Hamilton
Sigrid and John Hedman-Dennis Sandra Henley
Mike & Dana Hoffmann Carol & Steve Howe-Veenstra
Denny & Joyce Hummel Steve & Brenda Joul
Jennings Insurance Agency Sharon Jensen Family
Jive Media Curtis & Lori Johnson
Kiwanis Club Jim & Janet Knoblach
Tammy & Brad Kothman Dorrie & Scott Larison
Ann Gustafson Larson LEAF
Mary Ann & Vernon Leitch Craig & Heidi Lietha
Jeff McCallum MCI Carpet One
Melanie & Steve Minkler Bruce Mohs
North Central Bus North Risk Partners
Nancy & Don Oestreich James O’Neil
Peters Body Shop, Inc Laura & Jeff Pfannenstein
Phi Delta Kappa Todd Pieper and Heather Pieper-Olson
Mike & Janet Reagan Virginia Riser
Jackie Saxton Christina Schulz
Schlenner Wenner William & Lynn Schnettler
Jeff & Linda Skumautz St. Cloud Eagles Club #622
St. Cloud Golden Gloves St. Cloud Lions Club
St. Cloud Morning Optimist Club Stearns County Emerging Leaders Group
Charlotte Stephens Mary Sunderman
Ted Takala & Teresa Ries Top Notch Builders & Remodelers
Dianne Tuff & Murdoch Johnson Joan & Steve Vincent
Connie & Jerry Von Korff Linda Waring
Scott Wilcox  

 

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