Awesome experience at the Iowa Alternative Ed conference presenting about our program today. We even got to see Mr Betts get inducted into the Hall of Fame! #todayisagooddaytochangelives #riseup #beawesome @jdeancc @kretter81 @danocaffrey
One of our program’s pioneers came back today to talk with Mrs. Sickman’s 7th grade exploratory class about overcoming obstacles. Thanks for being awesome Katie! #StillMakingADifference @kretter81
Our student leadership team came in on their day off today to show a couple members of the Salvation Army & accept their generous donation. We also went through the clothing side of our closet & installed our new shelving! We’re still organizing, but it is looking so much better!
We received the final installment of $967.45 from the grant that Jodi Hammond-Milleson wrote us in! Thank you to Ryan Lindahl, Lecturing Knight, for presenting it to us & asking for a tour. Glad to show you around. Thanks to the Elks & all their members for their support!
This group of Project RISE leaders set the record for amount of food packed in a shift. 7 full pallets. The old record was 6. That equals 1,224 food bags packed! #makeadifference
We are thankful we get to be @ school, we are thankful we get to be leaders, & we are thankful we get to serve our community. Some of student leaders w/ our Student Food Pantry program packed & delivered food to a few of our school families to get them thru Thanksgiving break.
We got our first load of food from the Northeast Iowa Food Bank today!
Since school started in August, 456.97 lbs of food has been used by our Charles City Comet families.
Please keep donating to our program by utilizing our drop boxes around town!
We got 2 huge pieces of news today!!
1. We want to give a huge shout out to Mr. Dean. He was elected President of the Iowa Association of Alternative Educators. No one cares more about students than Mr. Dean. Congrats from Project RISE & the entire Success Center Family!!!
Awesome day with UNI student teachers helping them become better future teachers. We were vulnerable and open. It’s always an emotional day for everyone involved. #SuccessCenterFamily
Our new student food pantry cabinets are finally in, set up and stocked!!! They look awesome. Special thanks to Charles City Buildings & Grounds for all their help getting them set up. It’s been a team effort from start to finish! #MakingADifference #CharlesCityFamily
AMAZED! We were happy to receive a call from Hyvee letting our team know that their bins were overflowing! We are so grateful for such a generous community, thank you all for being awesome!
As thanksgiving approaches we would like to share what we are all thankful for! We are thankful for our amazing community for all of the donations that we are receiving, our supportive administration and CC family, and most importantly all of the students and families involved!!
We’re super proud to announce one of our Mentors and Student Leaders signed her letter of intent to run Cross Country at Hawkeye Community College! Congrats Mindi Neve! #SuccessCenterFamily
Shout out to the members of the Charles City YMCA, @MamaDLynch & the Washington Elementary Family, as well as Mrs. Boss and the @Comet_Bands family. Donations are flying in for our food pantry!!! #Family
Here are some items that work best for our food pantry! We also put out drop boxes at the YMCA and HyVee.
Thank you in advance!
An exciting announcement about our next action to help our #CharlesCityFamily!!!! Listen in to the Comet Connection with Erik Hoefer at 8:20 for details on what we’re doing.
Great morning working student leaders from the Clarksville Pals program as they develop their own mentoring and tutoring program. Leaders helping leaders!
