BigHouse: End of Summer Back-to-School Bash for Foster Kids

Website

www.ourbighouse.org

Overview of Idea

BigHouse Foundation is a non-profit organization that assists foster families in Lee County, AL. Our Back-to-School Bash celebrates the end of the summer and helps foster families gear up for the start of a new school year by providing school supplies, clothes, shoes, toiletries and even haircuts.

The Specifics: What will the $5,000 fund?

•The average child needs $308 worth of supplies and clothes to start a new school year
•Combined with rising costs and a 27% reduction to the AL DHR General Fund, resources are limited to provide for the needs of the nearly 6,000 kids in the state’s foster care system.
•Less than 60% of kids that spent time in foster care went on to earn a high school diploma, and only 2% went on to receive a college degree.

BigHouse wants to promote academic success and confidence in foster children.

A $5,000 grant would allow BigHouse to provide school essentials such as new clothes, shoes, backpacks, notebooks, etc. for kids and teens in foster care to minimize the strain on foster parents’ budgets and prepare them for the upcoming school year.

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