Support Local Kids: Take Part in Our Annual Back-to-School Collection Drive

Support Local Kids: Take Part in Our Annual Back-to-School Collection Drive

Each year, Valley partners with Communities in Schools to help children in Renton and Tukwila have the school supplies they need when school starts up again. All common school supplies will be accepted, and we are asking for a particular focus on the high-need items listed below:

High-Need Items

  • Large back packs (for high school students)
  • Reusable water bottles
  • Alarm clocks
  • Ear buds
  • Spiral notebooks (wide & college ruled)
  • Composition notebooks (wide & college ruled)
  • Mechanical pencil boxes (& lead refills)
  • No. 2 pencil boxes
  • Post-it notes

Other Items

  • Lunch boxes
  • Scientific calculators
  • Notebook paper (wide & college ruled)
  • Markers boxes (thin & wide)
  • Colored pencil boxes
  • USB drives
  • Pencil pouches (with holes to put in 3-ring binder, not plastic)
  • 2″ binders
  • Crayon boxes
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Drawing paper
  • Pencil sharpeners
  • Highlighter boxes
  • Pen boxes (blue, black & red)
  • Sharpies
  • Graph paper
  • Glue sticks and glue bottles
  • Ruler
  • Erasers
  • No scissors or tape unless they are kid scissors and kid tape

Donation bins will be located at numerous locations throughout Valley’s clinic network. See the list of locations below; the address and hours of operation for each clinic can be found at the associated links.

Donations are accepted through August 15, 2023.

You can also visit this link to make a cash donation to Communities in Schools.

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