Back to School Backpack Drive

Remember those days as a kid on your first day of school with new pencils, clothes and a backpack....ready to tackle cursive, novels and your first 'real' science class??!!

Unfortunately, not all are that fortunate to have the same feeling and why our Haas Back to School EWMBAA Project is donating ready-to-go backpacks and gift cards to families of the Battered Women's Shelter of San Jose.

Our goal is to collect 75 backpacks and to collect $2000 in Target Gift Cards so that ever family gets backpacks and a $50 Target Gift Card to go back to school shopping for new clothes and shoes.

Here's the project starting 7/16 until 8/6:

Open the following Google spreadsheet and sign up to make a backpack or donate a Target Gift Card. When dropping off backpacks, please label outside with what age you made the bag for....

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At4ZFICJtrTxdEkxMTJEUmtSbkh2bnZSa1VGYmZpdlE&hl=en&authkey=CJqNiXQ

For backpacks, please purchase a new backpack and fill it with age relevant school supplies:

PreK-K: Pencils, wide ruled paper and notebooks, pencil cases, markers
Grade School: Pencils, wide ruled paper and notebooks, pencil cases, markers, folders, etc
Jr High and High School: Pens & pencils, binders, folders, notebooks, etc.
Drop Off sites for backpacks and gift cards from 7/16 to Friday 8/4:

1) Haas EWMBA Office during summer office hours.

2) Dinner for 2013 admits at DoubleTree (drop off with Kimberly) on Friday August 6th

3) Send gift cards in mail to Kimberly Petska at (please email Kimberly when you mail...checks made out to Kimberly Petska for me to buy GCs are also accepted):
Kimberly Petska
2007 Pacific Avenue #3
San Francisco, CA 94109

4) Fellow EWMBA classmate houses. Soon we will be announcing drop off sites at fellow classmates houses on the weeknight evenings and weekends through out the Bay Area.

5) And finally....we will be having a drop off pizza party at Pauline's Pizza (RSVP to be sent soon) in the SF Mission on Wednesday August 4th at 7pm. Stop by and drop off your backpack/gift card and eat a slice of infamous SF pizza.

Any questions, please email Kimberly Petska.
kimberly_petska@mba.berkeley.edu

Thanks for your support and lets hit our goal of 75 backpacks and $2000 in Target Gift Cards. Feel free to go in with fellow classmates, friends, co-workers and family!!

Thanks!