Backpacks and bonding: How one mother-son duo give back
Each summer, Julie Knopf and her son Ryan roll up their sleeves to help thousands of Boulder Valley students start school on the right foot.
When families face difficult financial decisions or tradeoffs, such as buying groceries or school supplies, it can impact a student’s success in the classroom and in life. Ensuring every student has access to school supplies creates equitable classrooms across all grade-levels.
Our annual school supply distribution, Crayons to Calculators BVSD, provides age-appropriate school supplies, headphones, and a new backpack to over 5,000 students facing financial hardship in the Boulder Valley School District.
Your challenge starts here! Create a fundraiser or join an existing one – it takes just a few seconds! You can personalize your fundraiser with a profile picture and a message about why supporting BVSD students is important to you.
Connect with your network, sharing your fundraising link with colleagues, family and friends through social media, email, text or word of mouth.
Keep track of your fundraiser’s progress and see who’s showing support through your dashboard. Be sure to thank everyone for their gifts and supporting BVSD students.
The Community Challenge provides a series of weekly challenges to help you and your team reach your Crayons to Calculators BVSD fundraising goal.
See how many mismatched donations you can collect! We encourage you to mismatch donations in increments of 56 ($5.60, $56, $6.56, etc) to represent the 56 schools in Boulder Valley School District. You can track your mismatches throughout the challenge on your profile!
Encourage your fundraisers to give up a daily habit – goodbye morning coffee! – and instead donate those funds to the challenge at the end of the week. Share your progress on social media to inspire others to join!
School starts this week! We challenge you and your fundraisers to fill a classroom with school supplies. $25 supports one student and $600 will fill a classroom.
Try and collect a donation from every city in the Boulder Valley School District! The map below will show you where donations are coming from in real time across all challenge participants! Cities include:
Show some spirit as we cross the finish line! This week we encourage you to celebrate with your fundraisers and have a little fun along the way.
Each summer, Julie Knopf and her son Ryan roll up their sleeves to help thousands of Boulder Valley students start school on the right foot.
Through the leadership of Impact on Education and dedicated individuals and organizations in our community, Crayons to Calculators has provided school supplies to over 130,000 students over the past 18 years.
Every school across Boulder Valley School District is filled with students, educators and staff eagerly anticipating the school year ahead. Ensuring each student has access to school supplies creates equitable classrooms across all grade-levels.
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