Southside Community Center, Inc. Donation Request Letter 215 Partridge St. (PO Box 4187) Elmira NY 14904 www.sccelmira.org Director@SCCElmira.org To Whom It May Concern: The Southside Community Center, Inc. (SCC) has proudly been providing out of school time childcare, educational, enriching programming for 45-years. SCC provides a safe and empowering environment for school age children completely 100% FREE to children and families. SCC operates Monday - Friday 2 pm - 6 pm. Children receive a healthy nutritious snack upon arrival and each night at 5pm we serve a hot homestyle dinner. Looking back over 2021 SCC had its challenges as did many with COVID-19, however through the struggles, SCC proudly stayed strong to help the children and families as they strive to be their best selves. SCC proudly engaged with 2,810 youth, we served 1,727 healthy nutritious snacks, and 1,040 home style dinners. Our youth were able to experience arts and culture through educational field trips and in-house enrichment programming. SCC staff are dedicated in empower children and families to grow and becomes their best selves. Your generous donation will help support SCC programming as we help children and families strive to be their best selves. Examples of areas of support are: • $10.00 Donation can help to provide healthy nutritious snacks. • $25.00 Donation will help to provide craft/educational/enrichment supplies. • $50.00 Donation will help to provide sport and recreation equipment. • $100.00 Donation would sponsor a youth for a month. • $500.00 Donation would fund two fieldtrips/transportation for our youth. On behalf of SCC Board of Directors, Leadership, Staff, and of course, our youth we would like to thank you in advance for your generous donation. Kindest Regards, Executive Officers President - Aaron Alsheimer Vice President - Aletha Rollins Secretary - Diane Wilbur Treasurer - Tammy Little Directors Tammy Miller Sandy Micknich-Clark Youth Program Director - Anthony Charles Novakowski
Policy
The donation of any items not on this list requires prior approval by the director. The Center can not accept any items to be given away to the youth, except for school supplies, winter hats, mittens, and gloves. We suggest you donate all other items of clothing to the Samaritan Center at 380 South Main.
Any questions about our donation policy, feel free to contact us!
Wishlist
Daily Supplies
- Paper towels
- Toilet paper
- Liquid hand soap
- Cleaning wipes
- Copy paper
- Triangle Fund
- Pens and pencils
- Duct tape
Craft and Fun
- Markers
- Crayons
- Construction paper
- Craft paint
- Glue sticks
- Stamp pads
- Fabric
- Sewing needles
- Board games
- Decks of cards
- Sporting equipment