FBCS students donate to CCS
Forrest Bird Charter High School's Interact Club pose with Rotary Club members as they donate the proceeds of their October fundraiser to Community Cancer Services. Pictured in the back row, from left, are student Teddy Winton, student Jason Colgrove, Cindy Marx, executive director of CCS; and student Josh Parnell. In the front row, from left are Debbie Ford, Rotary Club of Sandpoint, and Barb Carver, Ponderay Centennial, Rotary Club advisors to the Forrest Bird Charter School Interact Club.
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Forrest Bird Charter High School's Interact Club raised over $1,500 during an October fundraiser at the school for Community Cancer Services.
"It was refreshing to hear the club members very careful consideration of an organization to fundraise for," Cindy Marx, CCS executive director, said. "They wanted to know that the funds raised were going to those in need."
Marx said that the organization was able to reassure students that funds donated to CCS go to gas for clients to get to treatment, grocery cards to help maintain good nutrition while in treatment, and lodging costs if clients need to stay near a treatment facility.
"CCS is careful to maintain a small overhead of administrative costs and even those funds stay here in the local community," she added. "We appreciate that the spirit of volunteerism, community support and philanthropy is alive and well in this generation."