School Supply Drive

10th Annual 
Town of Palm Beach United Way

School Supply Drive

The Town of Palm Beach United Way is grateful to the Palm Beach community for collectively donating $29,000 to date, and thousands of school supplies during the 10th Annual School Supply Drive.  The drive ran July 25 through August 8 to benefit low-income families in Palm Beach County.

In total, the Town of Palm Beach United Way School Supply Drive collected more than 16,500 individual items, including pencils, pens, crayons, markers, notebooks, erasers, backpacks, folders and binders.

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school supply drive

school supply drive

Grant Distributions

Grants were distributed to the following Town of Palm Beach United Way partner agencies:

Adopt-A-Family - $4,000
HomeSafe - $4,000
Milagro Center - $4,000

Achievement Centers - $1,000 
American Association of Caregiving Youth - $1,000 
The Arc of Palm Beach County - $1,000
Boys & Girls Clubs - $1,000     
Center for Child Counseling - $1,000
El Sol - $1,000             
Families First - $1,000    
Farmworker Coordinating Council - $1,000 
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies - $1,000

Literacy Coalition - $1,000    
Opportunity - $1,000         
Take Stock in Children - $1,000
Urban League - $1,000
Urban Youth Impact - $1,000 
YMCA of South Palm Beach County - $1,000
YMCA of the Palm Beaches - $1,000
YWCA - $1,000

Logo Contest

This year’s School Supply Drive included a logo contest.  Students 18 and under were asked to submit a drawing depicting the Town of Palm Beach United Way’s annual School Supply Drive. 

The winning design was created by Caroline Ghirardini of West Palm Beach.  She attended Palm Beach Day Academy from Kindergarten through 8th grade and will be a senior this fall at Deerfield Academy.  Her design will serve as next year’s logo, and she will also receive a $200 Amazon Gift Card.

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