Charity begins at school for UCS students

Utica Community Schools students are learning that charity can begin at school.

Nearly 200 charities are being supported by UCS schools this season. Each school community in UCS is hosting multiple drives throughout this month.

Charity drives being hosted by schools this year include:

Beacon Tree Elementary
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Hat and Mitten Tree (Student Council)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Pennies for Pasta
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (Student Council)
Operation Gratitude (Student Council)

Beck Centennial Elementary
Hat and Mitten Tree (Beck Family Volunteers & Kindergarten Classes)
Giving Tree (Beck Family Volunteers & Kindergarten Classes)
Stockings for Soldiers (National Elementary Honor Society)
Toys for Tots (Fifth Grade)
Cookies for Cows (Fourth Grade)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)

Browning Elementary
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
MCC Social Work Department Sock Drive
Toys for Tots

Burr Elementary
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive
Humane Society (Student Council)
Giving Tree (Office Staff)
Hat and Mitten Tree (Student Council)
Caroling at Oakmont Senior Center (Operation Kindness Junior Club)

Collins Elementary
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
UNICEF (Student Council)
Adopt a Family (Third Grade)
Coat Drive (First Grade)

Crissman Elementary
Shelby Lions Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Turning Point (Crissman Kids Care Club)
Nursing Homes (Crissman Kids Care Club)
Macomb Food Pantry (Crissman Kids Care Club)
First Book Earth Day (Crissman Kids Care Club)

DeKeyser Elementary
MANNA Community Meals
Hat and Mitten Tree (Girl Scouts)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive
American Red Cross

Dresden Elementary
Extended Hand (Student Council)
Giving Tree (Student Council)
Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Local Families (Staff)

Duncan Elementary
Toys for Tots
Mitten Tree
Giving Tree
Shelby Lions Food Drive

Ebeling Elementary
Hope Center of Macomb (PTA)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Hat and Mitten Tree (Student Council)

Flickinger Elementary
Utica Lions Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Turning Point (Staff)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Children’s Hospital (Staff)

Graebner Elementary
Giving Tree (Staff and Community)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive
Toys for Tots
Macomb County Giving Program

Harvey Elementary
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)

Havel Elementary
Toys for Tots
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive
Hat and Mitten Giving Tree (Student Council)

Messmore Elementary
American Cancer Associations (Room 9 – Grades 5/6)
Military Moms (A.T.O.M.)
American Red Cross (Student Council)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Basket Project (Student Council)
UNICEF (A.T.O.M.)

Monfort Elementary
Adopt a Family (3rd Grade)
Care Packages Overseas (2nd Grade)
Children’s Hospital (1st Grade)
Samaritan House Canned Food Drive (5th Grade)
Toys for Tots (Goodness Gorillas)
American Red Cross (Goodness Gorillas)
Giving Tree (Goodness Gorillas)
Clothing Donation to Local Shelter

Morgan Elementary
Basket Project
Mitten and Hat Tree
Holiday Food Baskets for Families in Need

Oakbrook Elementary
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Mitten and Hat Tree (Student Council)
Make a Wish Foundation (Academically Talented and Gifted)

Plumbrook Elementary
Animal Shelter
Homeless Shelter
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive

Roberts Elementary
Shelby Lions Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
South Warren Food Pantry and Baby Pantry (Student Council)

Schuchard Elementary
M-Crest
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive
Holiday Cards for the Troops
Disable Veterans of America
Adopted an Army Troop (Academically Talented and Gifted)

Schwarzkoff Elementary
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Kiwanis Coat Drive (Office Staff)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Hat and Mitten Tree (Student Council)
Needy Schwarzkoff Families (Student Council)
Giving Tree (Student Council)

Switzer Elementary
Macomb County Homeless (Students and Staff)
Local Families Affected by Cancer (Student Council)
Samaritan House Canned Food Drive (Switzer Health Team)
Mat and Mitten Tree (Student Council)
Giving Tree (Student Council)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Shelby Lions Canned Food Drive (Student Council)

West Utica Elementary
UNICEF (Junior Optimist Club)
Salvation Army (Junior Optimist Club)
Ronald McDonald House (Junior Optimist Club)
Shelby Lions Canned Food Drive

Wiley Elementary
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Utica Lions Canned Food Drive
Coat Drive (Coyote Volunteer League)
Shop with a Teacher (Staff)
Gifts for the Kids (Coyote Volunteer League)

Bemis Junior High
Samaritan House (Life Skills Class)
Lions Club (Life Skills Class)
Project Linus (Life Skills Class)
Halloween Candy Buy Back (Life Skills Class)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Romeo Nursing Center (Life Skills Class)
Love Letters: Random Cards of Kindness
Macomb Humane Society (Life Skills Class)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Gleaners Food Bank (Student Council)

Davis Junior High
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive
Toys for Tots
Gleaners Food Bank
MISD Homeless Division (Rachel’s Raiders)
Adopt Davis Families (Staff)

Eppler Junior High
Coats for Needy Eppler Kids (Counseling Department)
Christmas Dinner for Needy Families (Builder’s Club)
Scarves, Mittens and Hats (Builder’s Club)
Toys for Tots (Student Council and National Junior Honor Society)
Utica Lions Canned Food Drive (Student Council)

Heritage Junior High
Gleaners (National Junior Honor Society)
American House (National Junior Honor Society)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
American House (Vocal Music Class)

Jeannette Junior High
Toys for Tots (Student Council and Operation Kindness)
Adopting a Family (National Junior Honor Society)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive

Malow Junior High
American Red Cross (Builder’s Club)
Samaritan House (Builder’s Club)
Extended Hand (Student Council)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Baskets for Needy Families

Shelby Junior High
Shelby Lions Canned Food Drive (Student Council)
Toys for Tots (Student Council)
Adopt a Shelby Family (FIRST Link Club)
The Basket Project (Staff)
Forgotten Harvest (STATIC Club)
Gifts to Nursing Home (STATIC Club)

AdvancePath Academy
Adopting Families with Malow

Eisenhower Senior High
Adopt 17 Families (Environmental Club, National Art Honor Society,
Student Council, Girl’s Basketball, National Honor Society, Wrestling,
Choir, Spanish Club, Newspaper, Yearbook, Journalism, Staff)
Gleaners (Key Club)
Michigan Military Moms (Key Club)
Michigan Animal Rescue League (PAW Club)
Toys for Tots

Ford II Senior High
Kid’s Make a Wish Foundation (National Honor Society)
Goodfellows of Mt. Clemens (National Honor Society)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Student Council and Key Club)

Stevenson Senior High
Adopt a Stevenson Family (Student Council)

Utica Senior High
Henry Ford Hospital Food Baskets (Counseling Center)
Covenant House of Detroit (Drama and Key Clubs)
Macomb Charitable Foundations Adopt a Family (German Club, Hispanic
Honor Society, National Honor Society, Sophomore/Senior Program
and History Classes)
Children Duffle Bag and Winter Warm-up (Health Occupations Students of
America)
Kiwanis Club Canned Food Drive (Key Club)
Toys for Tots (National Honor Society and National Art Honor Society)
Cystic Fibrosis (National Honor Society)
Leukemia Lymphoma Society (National Honor Society)
Adopt a Family (Student Council)
AmVets Care Bags and Winter Coats (Student Council)
MISD Homeless Ed Project (Student Council)
Susan G. Komen Amazing Race (Student Council)
Turning Point (Student Council)

Utica Academy for International Studies
Blankets for Homeless (Key Club)
Kiwanis Canned Food Drive (Key Club)
Heritage Church Food Pantry (Vocal Music Class)

Early Childhood Program at Duncan
Toys for Tots