Fundraising: Supporting Waters
OVERVIEW
As we watch CPS and Illinois State budgets lose more money every year, basic and unique programs in our schools get put on the chopping block. We are tired of waiting for CPS to come through with the necessary budgets Waters needs to keep its unique programs.
Entering the 2009-10 school year:
With state and CPS budgets lower than ever, this year, we are asking that every Waters family make a pledge to Waters GROW FUND. Our goal is to raise $75,000. This money directly sustain our Full-Time Music and Ecology Programs.
Community businesses and members are welcome to join us in our goal.
MAKE A DONATION
From Spring 2007 through Spring 2009, we fundraised over $70,000 to:
- Increase our half-time music program to a full-time studio program allowing all K-8 classrooms to now enjoy a musically-integrated curriculum in 2009-2010
- Sustain the Ecology Program
- Bring the Circus to Waters students Nino’s Great Adventure was welcomed by the student body last year during the holidays
- Supplement funding for new textbooks in 6-8 Math, 6-8 Language Arts, K-5 Math, 1-5 Language Arts, and Social Studies curriculums
- Bring Science on the Go to 2-3rd grades
