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Getty Center
We thank the Getty Center for sponsoring Getty Family Getaway Days for Erwin St. School. The Center has provided free buses and parking so our families, teachers and staff could enjoy a day at the Getty Museum and gardens. Many of our students have also benefited from art-centered field trips to the Getty Center.
Box Tops 4 Education
Erwin St. School has earned hundreds of dollars over the
years through General Mills' Box Tops for Education program. Our families turn in qualifying box tops from General Mills cereals,
snacks and cooking products. Box Tops coupons can also be found on participating Pillsbury, Green Giant, Totino's, Progresso, Old El Paso and Gold Medal products. We mail in the Box Tops twice a year and Erwin receives a check providing funds for our student body account. Keep saving those box tops year-round!
In addition to clipping Box Tops, you can earn cash for our school by shopping or charging. If you shop online, you can help Erwin by visiting the Box Tops Marketplace at boxtops4education.com. An average of 3% of purchases is donated to our school. And by using a Box Tops Visa card, 1% of every purchase goes back to Erwin. Visit the Box Tops web site to apply.
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Westfield Fashion Square
Shop for a Cause is a program that has been conducted during the winter holidays to benefit local schools, including Erwin. Customers shopped and logged receipts at the mall's Concierge Center. For each dollar spent in specialty stores the school earned 10 points, and for each dollar spent in department stores the school earned 5 points. Erwin received a $292 prize based on points earned. In previous years, Erwin participated in a similar program sponsored by Fashion Square, Shopping for Students, which also earned funds for our school.
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BookEnds
We thank BookEnds for bringing over 11,000 gently used books to Erwin Elementary.
Founded by Robin Keefe, this non profit organization recycles children's books using student
volunteers to develop libraries in the neediest schools and youth
organizations. BookEnds unites the efforts of community organizations with
student leaders to provide the resources to turn a child with a new book
into a reader. More than 30,000 student volunteers have donated more than
150,000 books through BookEnds. To learn more about how you can help, contact BookEnds at:
bookends.org or call 818-716-1198.
Students, in conjunction with BookEnds, delivered gently used books to our school. They organized book drives at their schools, sorted and boxed the books, delivered them to Erwin, then read to some of Erwin's students. The books were distributed to our teachers
for their classroom libraries, to students and parents, and to the Erwin library. We appreciate all the students who have worked with BookEnds for their community spirit and dedication to literacy!
Washington Mutual
Erwin St. School and Washington Mutual teamed up to teach kids how to save. Trained personnel helped students make savings deposits to their accounts in the Family Center once a week. .
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Planet Green Recycling
We began our partnership with Planet Green in the fall of 2007. Teaming up with this inkjet cartridge remanufacturing company, the Erwin St. School community is helping the environment while raising funds for field trips, library books and other student needs. Used cell phones and laser cartridges are accepted as well. Together, we are making a difference by eliminating non-biodegradable plastics and metals contained in printer cartridges and cell phones from entering our landfills.
Please deliver your empty printer ink cartridges to the main office or library (no remanufactured cartridges or toner tubes please). For more information, contact Mrs. Dosaj at 988-6292 or visit planetgreenrecycle.com. Thank you for your support!
City Councilmember Wendy Greuel
Wendy Greuel donated $1,000 worth of books to Erwin's library in 2005. The books were selected by Library Services downtown and ordered through LAUSD vendor Mook and Blanchard.
Our City Councilmember has also held a "BBQ for Books" at the Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks Park for the past couple of years.
To support the vision of uniting schools with surrounding communities,
attendees were asked to bring new books that would be donated to elementary schools in Council District Two. Erwin St. School received a beautiful assortment of new books from this event in 2004.
L.A. Shares
L.A. Shares is a nonprofit program that takes tax-deductible donations of reusable goods and materials (both new and used) from the local business community and redistribtues these items free to nonprofit agencies and schools throughout Los Angeles. Created in 1991, L.A. SHARES was formerly a pilot program for the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department known as Materials For The Arts. In 1994, L.A. SHARES became an independent, non-profit organization. It is commited to increasing the amount of reuse opportunities available to the citizens of Los Angeles, in an effort to reduce the amount of goods and materials being sent unnecessarily to our already overburdened landfills.
Erwin St. School has been benefiting from this program since 2005, receiving free items for use in our office and classrooms.
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