This holiday season at Friday Harbor Elementary School the Parent-Teacher Association is funding excellence through a social media campaign on Deposit A Gift. FHES PTA wants to value the time of students and families. Students should be home with family after school, focusing on studies or engaged in extra curricular activity, rather then pounding the pavement trying to sell more stuff to their community.

Funding Excellence at FHES is a social media campaign that will take advantage of #GivingTuesday, a national day of giving, Tuesday, Dec 1. The website can be found here. Tax-deductible donations help fill the gaps in the ever-shrinking budgets of schools. With traditional fundraisers, the school only gets a percentage of the sales, usually about 50 percent.

Using Deposit a Gift, the school receives, about 93 percent. Donate on #GivingTuesday, Deposit A Gift will waive their platform fee and donate it back to FHES, so the school will earn about 97 percent of your donation. With a click and a credit card, a safe and secure donation can be made on this site.

Luke F., a student at FHES says, “Thank you for not making me sell any cookie dough! I could tell people only bought it in the past because they wanted to support me and my school.”

The current needs to fund excellence at FHES include: transportation costs for experiential field trips from kindergarten to sixth grade, teacher stipends, art enrichment classes, Chromebooks for more hands-on learning in all grades, and family events centered around math and reading. The FHES PTA hopes islanders will support learners by giving directly to schools.

To mail a check to FHES PTA, P.O. Box 458, Friday Harbor, WA.

– Submitted by Friday Harbor Elementary School PTA