LONG BEACH, Calif.–LBS Financial Credit Union partnered with Craig Williams Elementary School in Bellflower Unified School District to collect school supplies and wish list items for the 2018-2019 school year.
Stacey Williams, principal of Craig Williams Elementary School in Lakewood, provided the credit union with a wish list at the beginning of the summer. Their wish list included a large variety of school supplies. The credit union delivered school supplies, including 3,000 sheets of notebook paper, 100 ear bud headphones for their computers, 100 packs of crayons, 10,000 sheets of copy paper, 360 glue sticks, 50 bottles of glue, hundreds of pencils and pens, and large quantities of Ziploc baggies, baby wipes, arts and crafts supplies, dry erase markers, tissues, and much more.
During the summer, LBS Financial promoted its school supply drive for Craig Williams with CU members at its Lakewood branch location and on its website. Members donated school supplies from the provided wish list the school developed.
Internally, the 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 Craig Williams included thousands of dollars in purchases made by LBS Financial, not including supply donations provided by the CU’s members.
This is the Credit Union’s eighth year of adopting a school in Bellflower USD. LBS Financial also adopted two additional schools in ABC Unified School District and Long Beach Unified School District and recently fulfilled wish list items for those schools in September.