How can LEAP support our kids during this pandemic? With distance learning and ongoing Zoom classes, educational enrichment becomes all the more needed! Art, movement, foreign language and all the rest of the programs LEAP supports are all the more important. Keeping some continuity with the in-classroom experience our kids love adds comfort and stability to their distance learning.
Did you know that local merchants have offered to donate 3% of what you spend with them to LEAP? By shopping with a “scrip card” at United Markets or Good Earth, you can earn valuable revenue for LEAP.
For the 2019/2020 school year, Scrip brought in over $9000 to LEAP
Simply present your card at checkout to confirm LEAP’s credit. If you have small kids, maybe ask them to help you remember to show your card at checkout!
Need a script card? Email us with your address and we’ll send a set.
One of LEAPs most significant sources of funding is Sponsorship. Sponsors are companies, foundations or generous patrons who have generously decided to support all of the children in the Lagunitas School District. Sponsorships are available at many levels from $10,000 to $500. Sponsors are thanked publicly on the LEAP website, at LEAP events and in community publications. Please contact our sponsorship team for more information, or go ahead and take the plunge!
Yes, even the mother of all shopping sites gives back to charity. By simply using the website smile.amazon.com you can help raise money for LEAP. It’s the same as the regular website except that Amazon will donate a percentage of everything you buy back to LEAP. If you’re already using Amazon why not make sure LEAP is your preferred charity. See our video on how to sign up for Amazon Smile
Let’s all hope that the Valley Visions Music Series can be revived someday and we can all celebrate together in person.
The VVMS was a wonderful success! We had a series of four live music performances planned at the San Geronimo Valley Presbyterian Church. Two of those shows sold out! Unfortunately, we did have to cancel one show, Tim Bluhm, due to COVID.
Despite the cancellation, the music series made $3306 after all expenses were paid. The series was successful in other ways too:
Big thanks go to Kerry Olivotti and Amos Klausner for doing so much leg work and putting in the late nights to make the Valley Visions Music Series such a hit!
In May of 2019, the 8th grade students from Lagunitas Middle School took the trip of a lifetime! After studying the history of the Civil Rights Movement in America, our students spent a week visiting in-person momentous sites in Alabama and Georgia. It’s one thing to read and study in books, it’s another to stand on the Edmund Pettus Bridge with people who marched side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Want another way to contribute to the kids in our district? Volunteer with LEAP! This can take many forms: helping at fundraisers, gathering auction items, making phone calls, communicating with your community… Whatever gifts you have, you can share! Contact us for more information hello@leap4education.org
Please help us kick off the Give Back season at The Lodge in Fairfax this Sunday, September 8th!!
Give Back events are hosted by our beloved local organizations who generously donate a portion of their proceeds to support Lagunitas School!
The Lodge has graciously offered all-day participation so get the day started off right with breakfast, lunch, dinner or all three!
The Lodge opens at 8 am and closes at 8 pm and has espresso drinks now too!
So, let’s show some serious love and make this Give Back year the very best yet!!
Please join us for back to school night on 21 August at 6PM. We will meet in the Multi Purpose Room on the lower campus for messages from Principal Laura Shain, Garden Teacher Suki, The Community Center and, of course, LEAP.
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