Harrisonville Bolws for Bright Futures

 

2nd annual Bowls for Bright Futures set for Feb. 20 Bright Futures Harrisonville invites the community to the second annual Bowls for Bright Futures fundraiser benefiting the organization’s Food 4 Thought weekend food program. Bowls for Bright Futures will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 20 from 4-7 p.m. in the Harrisonville High School cafeteria. Guests will be able to make a minimum donation of $5/bowl to Bright Futures and enjoy a bowl of soup or chili provided by local restaurants. As part of the event, student-made pottery bowls will also be auctioned off. Bright Futures is seeking sponsors for the event. Sponsors will be recognized with signage at the Bowls for Bright Futures event, as well as on the video board during the basketball games. Sponsorship levels include Bright Futures Partner ($1,000), Bright Futures Supporter ($500), or Bright Futures Donor ($100). The goal for the event is to raise at $8,250 which is a quarter of the Food 4 Thought budget for the year. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Food 4 Thought Weekend food program which provides a box of child-friendly food each month to fill in on the weekends when school breakfast and lunch is unavailable. The program is funded solely through community donations and made possible through volunteers. Currently 175 children receive the boxes each month and the annual cost for the program currently stands at approximately $33,000. To make a donation online any time, supports can use Venmo - @HvilleBrightFutures

December News THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of our generous adopters who made our 2023 Adopt a Family Christmas program the biggest year yet! We were able to provide Christmas presents for 81 families (a total of 220 kids!) Congratulations to our December Partner of the Month - Dri-Duck, represented by HHS alum Lexie Schrock! Lexie reached out to us when her company had coat donations available and we received a huge box of coats. Congratulations to the Harrisonville Middle School Student Council for being our Student Ambassadors for the month of December! These students helped with our Food 4 Thought program in November and then with sorting and loading the toy & sock donation we received from Hope City Church in December. Thanks to Hope City Church for donating toys to us! The church held a toy give-away and had toys & socks remaining so they donated them to Bright Futures for distribution. Bright Futures was happy to share toys and socks from Hope City Church with other school districts in Cass County including Sherwood Cass R-8, East Lynne 40 School District, & Cass Midway Schools. A huge thanks goes to Crossroads Harrisonville for filling our shelves at Station 42 with joggers, shorts and slides! Exterior Plus was kind enough to donate 50 Christmas dinners for families in our community! Not only that, but they helped load and deliver our monthly food boxes as well! Thank you to Cass Career Center FFA students for packing our food boxes in December! They donated 6 boxes of fruit for our food boxes as well! Shout out to Wildcat Football friends who prepped food for our monthly food box pack! Thank you to the Cass Career Center Practical Nursing Program for the donation of 150 First Aid kits for our Bright Futures Program! These were distributed during our monthly food pick-up/delivery in December.