The Leadership students at Birchwood Elementary have done an awesome job with this.  We partnered together to expand the food drive beyond the walls of the school.  What if we got the neighborhood involved and made it a neighborhood wide canned food drive?

Everyone loved the idea and it presented an opportunity for the leadership students to be a part of something even bigger than the year before.  Imagine a group of 4th and 5th graders leading a neighborhood effort to gather canned goods to donate to the Lighthouse Mission…

That is just what they have done.  We had a student speak at our Birchwood Neighborhood Association meeting and as a result the school had several neighbors bringing in donations over the course of the last week.  The students made bins to station at Albertsons (The only grocery store in the Birchwood Neighborhood) and collected food there.  Little Caesars is donating a pizza party to the class at the school that brings in the most canned goods.

This has become a truly neighborhood event, led by these fine young students (Yes even the one that scolded me for wearing flip flops in November).

The results are in and the students collected over 1500 cans of food! The Lighthouse Mission picked them all up this morning, just in time for Thanksgiving.

Good job to Ms. Hinshaw and the Leadership Students!