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Georgia United Credit Union School Crashers Provides makeover to Woodward Elementary on July 17 & 18
DEKALB COUNTY, GA (July 20, 2015) — Georgia United Credit Union completed their 2nd annual School Crashers school improvement project @ Woodward Elementary School on Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18. This summer, Georgia United worked alongside the DeKalb County School System in partnership with community volunteers to provide facility and grounds improvements for Woodward Elementary School at 3034 Curtis Drive in Atlanta. Woodward is a Title 1 School, built in 1958, with a current enrollment of 1,030 students, 100 faculty/staff.
Thanks to the Shared Strength and civic pride of over 200+ community volunteers and corporate donors, several significant improvement projects were completed by Saturday, July 18. Professional Crew Leaders have been working hard for weeks – installing landscaping, benches and a gazebo, repairing and replacing the schools’ entrance signage, painting exterior areas and murals in the cafeteria and installing blinds. Community volunteers joined the effort over the final two days to complete remaining tasks such as painting yellow safety curbing and paw prints, spreading mulch and pine straw, labeling and sorting books in the media center, painting hallways and classrooms, replacing furniture in the teachers’ lounge, installing chair slippers and assist teachers with bulletin boards and setting up their classrooms.
Georgia United gives special thanks to the following generous corporate donors & partners:
· DeKalb County School District – Interior & exterior paint
· City of Brookhaven – Gazebo donation
· Coca Cola – 3,000+ beverages for volunteers
· Home Depot – 300 bales of pine straw for landscaping
· Chick-fil-a Foundation – Lunch for all volunteers
· Papa Johns – Lunch for all volunteers
· Cross Keys Foundation – Volunteer workers
· Dunkin Donuts – Breakfast and coffee for volunteers
· Salesforce – Volunteer workers
· Rothschild Marketing Group – Afternoon snack break
· Melaney’s Murals – Cafeteria and front entrance murals
· Mohawk Carpet – Providing carpet for selected runner-up makeovers
· The Rayley Group – Project Management and Construction Consulting
· Middle Sister Marketing – Provided all volunteer t-shirts, marketing consulting
· Star94 – Media Partner
· 11Alive – Media Partner
· 680theFan – Media Partner
· Artlite Office Supply Co – Furniture Partner
· DeKalb Medical Center – First Aid Station
· Signs by Tomorrow – Signage
The “before” and “after” photos will be available at www.georgiaunitedcu.org/schoolcrashers next week and Woodward Elementary parents and students will see the improvements when school starts on August 10. Woodward was chosen from among hundreds of nominations from schools across the state -to receive Georgia United School Crashers facilities makeover grand prize.
If your school was nominated and not this year’s School Crashers Winner, stay tuned for additional announcements of “runner up” schools who will receive mini-grants for their own improvement projects during this school year.
Next week, Georgia United President & CEO, Debbie Smith is scheduled to announce School Crasher 2015 Mini-Makeover Grant winners. So, stay tuned!
About Georgia United Credit Union
Georgia United Credit Union is ranked as one of the top credit unions in Georgia in both size and safety at over $1 Billion in assets, 135,000 members and 17 branch locations. Georgia United seeks to make members’ lives easier by offering products, services and education to help members meet their needs and achieve their goals.
Georgia United Credit Union serves all State Agency employees, Board of Regents colleges and universities, employees of over 500 companies and 11 county school systems.