LONG BEACH, Calif.–LBS Financial Credit Union partnered with Furgeson Elementary School in ABC Unified School District to collect school supplies and wish list items for the 2018-2019 school year and then delivered their donation.
Alejandro Gutierrez, principal of Furgeson Elementary School in Hawaiian Gardens, provided the credit union with a wish list from all of the school’s teachers at the beginning of the summer. The credit union delivered six training room tables for their new parent learning center, 90 headphones, 360 individual student whiteboards, 64 mini-whiteboard erasers, 492 boxes of crayons, and an assortment of other school supplies.
During the summer, LBS Financial promoted its school supply drive for Furgeson with CU members at its Cerritos branch location and on their website. Members donated school supplies from the provided wish list the school developed. Internally, LBS Financial promoted two jeans days with staff, encouraging donations to wear jeans. All donations from the staff jeans days went towards the CU’s school supply drives and was combined with a special budget set aside for the school. The donation to Furgeson included thousands of dollars in purchases made by LBS Financial, not including supply donations provided by the Credit Union’s members.