Curtis Cares Day
Curtis Cares Day - April 25, 2020
Curtis will host its 4th annual all-school community service event on campus and all families, faculty and staff are encouraged to participate. Come and help instill kindness and compassion in our children by teaching them about service to others and the importance of being active in their community. Curtis Cares Day helps promote our ideas around uniting people, building our community, beautifying our campus and imparting important values to the student body about community service, being a good environmental citizen and the integration of those ideas into the fabric of daily life at Curtis.
Curtis will host its 4th annual all-school community service event on campus and all families, faculty and staff are encouraged to participate. Come and help instill kindness and compassion in our children by teaching them about service to others and the importance of being active in their community. Curtis Cares Day helps promote our ideas around uniting people, building our community, beautifying our campus and imparting important values to the student body about community service, being a good environmental citizen and the integration of those ideas into the fabric of daily life at Curtis.
Past Curtis Cares Days: Projects and Organizations Benefitted
2019
2018
- One Voice/Curtis’s Families Helping Families - donated, sorted and packed supplies for needy families.
- Braided and knotted strips of recycled t-shirts to make pet toys for No-Kill LA (NKLA).
- Assembled shower kits for clients of Saban Community Clinic.
- Fashioned paracords for U.S. service men and women as part of Operation Gratitude.
- Decorated flowerpots with happy messages and then filled them with snapdragon plants for residents of a senior living center.
- First annual e-waste recycling event in partnership with Homeboy Industries (certified as an R2 (Responsible Recycling) and B-Corp (Benefit Corporation)).
- Renewed the school’s Monarch Butterfly Garden by weeding and planting milkweed, the butterfly larvae’s food plant.
- Cleaned up the Pavilion Garden to help prepare it for its future as a vegetable garden.
2018
- NKLA (No-Kill Loa Angeles) made puppy toys
- One Voice/Curtis’ Families Helping Families – donated, sorted, and packed supplies for needy families. Decorated the family's supplies box and wrote them letters.
- Veterans
- Brownies and Girl Scouts made paracords.
- Made a Rock Garden area on the Curtis Campus
- Maintained a Butterfly Garden on the Curtis Campus
- Made potted plants for residents of the Belmont Elderly home
- Did a book and sports equipment drive for needy children
2017
- One Voice/Curtis’s Families Helping Families - donated, sorted and packed supplies for needy families.
- My Friends Place – packed backpacks with school supplies and provided kids with sleeping bags.
- Schools on Wheels - supplied back packs filled with school supples.
- United Friends of Children - packed bags with school supplies for college-age students.
- Made thank you cards for Park Rangers
- Created Butterfly Garden at Curtis School
- Planted Flowers at Curtis School
