Year End Fundraiser

As we take a moment to reflect on another year dedicated to serving our community, we express our heartfelt gratitude for your continued support. Your generosity has been pivotal in enabling us to assist high school seniors and their families through the No Grad Left Behind program, as well as to uplift individuals via the Send A Card initiative. The impact of your contributions is evident in the lives we touch, and we invite you to read the testimony of a parent whose daughter graduated high school in 2024 below.

As the year draws to a close, we find ourselves in need of your assistance to ensure that our essential operations can transition smoothly into the upcoming year. It is important to note that our organization relies solely on volunteers to carry out our mission. The core functions that sustain our work—such as program development, marketing, website management, and essential software tools like QuickBooks, Zoom, and Mailchimp—are critical to our existence. This year, we are reaching out for your support not only for our programs but also for operational needs. This funding will allow us to engage necessary expertise, including marketing professionals, grant writers, and fundraising specialists, to help us establish more sustainable operations.

Every dollar you contribute during this crucial period will have a direct and meaningful impact on our ability to provide essential resources to families in need through the No Grad Left Behind program, support 20 high school seniors in their graduation journey, and distribute over 6,000 handmade motivational cards. Your support will also help us maintain access to vital operational resources and empower our dedicated volunteers to deliver high-quality services. We kindly ask you to consider making a year-end contribution to help us achieve our operational goal of $5,000. Regardless of the amount, your donation will significantly enhance the lives of those we serve. 

 We sincerely appreciate your unwavering commitment to our mission, and together, we can foster a brighter future for our students.

Jurgita Fumo (Executive Director) and board members Sara Hammond, Kelley Doyle, Naz Rasoul, Trista Hughes

Celebrating One

No Grad Left Behind testimony; Class of 2024 graduate parent wrote

“Honestly this program saved my child's senior year and more. I was struggling to figure out how to afford the many financial responsibilities of senior year for my daughter and her anxiety caused her to battle serious mental health emergencies. As an unplanned single mom I always want my children to participate in all that their classmates do and not feel left out or uncomfortable. This program made that happen in many ways.

Receiving the scholarship and all the help gave my daughter and I a feeling of hope because she was accepted in a few colleges but getting through some of the initial fees and buying dorm stuff had us both apprehensive about accepting those offers. This allowed us to get things started and she is now off to college and happy she went.

Really all the items in the student gift basket were helpful. We took all of it to her dorm and used the gift cards to buy a few other needs for her stay on campus. This was a blessing.

The graduation supplies basket really helped me put together a party for my graduate one that looked really nice and had all the necessary things.

The outdoor banner allowed my daughter to be represented the way she deserves. These banners are so expensive and this is something she can now keep for the rest of her life as a memory.

The community at the graduation event was awesome! Meeting other parents and families who were excited to share their child's graduation and appreciate the help we were all receiving was great. We all got to share our gratefulness and appreciation for the program as well as our anxieties of sending our babies off and watching them grow. It made me feel less alone in this voyage. The food was delicious too and the family dynamic of the staff was lovely to see.

Participating in this program helped with overall emotional wellbeing, alleviated financial burden and physical stress the last year of high school brings. This program did all of the above. I just didn't have it this year financially, especially while healing from a major surgery. I just felt like I was failing my daughter in some ways and this program came through for me. It gave me peace that it was going to work out and Mrs Jurgita was amazing. She is such an amazing woman with a huge heart and it showed every time she called, visited, and gave hugs that she probably didn't even realize were needed.

Thank you so much for this program, it is a blessing to many of us families in need that just want the best for our babies!”