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Our School Supply Drive Looks Different this Year With the health and safety for our community in mind, we have updated our school supply drive this year. Due to the impact of COVID-19, the need for school supplies could be even greater this year. But, you have options for how you can support this need!  […]

School Closure Highlights At Communities In Schools of Puyallup, we are always All In For Kids, both in schools and beyond. When school buildings closed in March, we were able to adapt our services to continue supporting students in Puyallup. With a focus on basic needs and well-being of students, Site Coordinators dedicated their time […]

We have a goal to collect 5,000 books for Puyallup School District students to have while schools are closed.  Update May 27 We have collected over 5,000 books! The books were assembled into mini libraries that are now on their way to all 22 elementary schools and will be available for families to pick up […]

The Tacoma News Tribune published a story covering the grand opening of Nothing Bundt Cakes in Puyallup. As a part of their grand opening, they are donating 20% of sales to Communities In Schools of Puyallup. Their owner, Cindy Cullen had some wonderful reasons as to why they chose Communities In Schools of Puyallup to […]

We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who donated to Holiday Help this year! Whether it was for Thanksgiving or the holidays, your support helped 211 families have a Thanksgiving meal and 798 students receive gifts over the holidays. Thank you to everyone who donated:

Due to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Every year in March we have our Annual Friendraiser Breakfast and Auction where we recognize members of the community through the awarding of an Educator, Volunteer, Community Partner, and Student of the year in addition to serving breakfast and hosting a live auction and raffle with proceeds […]

Why Give? Communities In Schools of Puyallup’s mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. This means that we believe that every student, regardless of the challenges they face, should have what they need to realize their full potential. This holiday season, you […]

Many of the students and families we serve face daily challenges. This holiday season many of those students and families will be without a holiday meal or gifts. You can help brighten the holidays by adopting a student or their whole family. You can also help by donating warm clothing items, food, or giftwrap. Last year […]

Fall is officially in the air, which means Thanksgiving is right around the corner. For some of us, that evokes feelings of excitement– memories of sitting around a table and sharing a meal with the ones we love. For others of us, this can be a stressful time–desiring to provide those memories for our families, […]

We had a goal to beat the 4,249 pounds of school supplies collected last year for Fill the Canoe. Thanks to our amazing partners and community members, we beat that number by a couple thousand pounds! This year, 6,664 pounds of school supplies were collected! Thank you to everyone who donated. Schools have already been […]