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District looking for faith-based partners
BY DR. CURTIS FINCH
Deer Valley Uni�ied School District Superintendent
“Yes, Virginia…there is a Santa Claus.” This phrase was attributed to a notoriously cantankerous newspaper editor, Frances Church, in an 1897 editorial to a skeptical young girl’s letter to the New York Sun newspaper.
Church’s answer? Santa is “certainly represented in love, generosity and devotion.”
The young reader obviously wanted to know if Santa was the real deal. Frances’ response was true, if the right perspective was taken. Santa is not about receiving gifts, but about giving to others. The 1,750-year “right jolly old elf” is always searching for helpers to spread community generosity, and so is the Deer Valley Uni�ied School District.
The district is looking for a few faithbased community partners who want to make a difference with needy families in our attendance area, but we have been unsuccessful securing the right collaborators. The district wants to join with a local partner and sign up for the “CityServe” program recently unveiled by Grand Canyon University.
CityServe is a national organization that collects and distributes new, and “in-kind,” items from big corporations like Amazon, Costco, Home Depot and Walmart. Everything from furniture to small appliances arrive in semi-trailers to GCU at least two times a month. Grand Canyon is the new CityServe HUB for Arizona and jumped right into the role six months ago by renovating a 35,000-square-foot warehouse on its main campus. The idea of going bigger came from its successful program with the USDA called “Farmers to Families” RIGOR, RELEVANCE & RELATIONSHIPSSMALL CLASS SIZES! Schedule a tour! Call 623-551-5083 for K-5 Campus or 623-466-8187 for 6-12 Campus Schedule a tour! Schedule a tour! ��� PARTNERS ���� 21 RIGOR, RELEVANCE, AND RELATIONSHIPS Call 623-551-5083 for K-5 Campus or 623-466-8187 for 6-12 Campus or schedule online. Visit caurusacademy.org/schedule-a-tour or schedule online. Visit caurusacademy.org/schedule-a-tourCall 623-551-5083 for K-5 Campus or 623-466-8187 for 6-12 Campus or schedule online. Visit caurusacademy.org/schedule-a-tour
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where GCU distributed almost 20,000 boxes of food to 42 schools, churches, and community groups, who then passed the food on to needy families.
GCU saw the need for Farmers to Families, and when the program ended, it jumped at the opportunity to join CityServe and be the HUB for Arizona.
Jay Cory, who formerly ran the Phoenix Rescue Mission, is the new director for CityServe GCU. Jay wants DVUSD to find faith-based partners who can do four things: 1) track community needs; 2) monitor incoming CityServe items; 3) collect items from CityServe GCU; and 4) distribute the products to families in need. DVUSD’s part would be to work with the faith-based partner to help identify families in need.
The two biggest issues we have found so far have been churches and faith-based organizations are worried about how to pick up and store the item if they are unable to distribute the goods immediately. The Deer Valley Education Foundation (dvef.org) may be able to help with this by coordinating with a local business for truck usage and/or storage.
If your faith-based organization is interested in collaborating with DVUSD and CityServe GCU, just contact your local school administrator, the district office at 623-445-5002, or e-mail me at superintendent@dvusd.org.
With the right perspective, together we can keep the “love, generosity and devotion” to our DVUSD families going year-round.
Dr. Finch can be reached at superintendent@dvusd.org.
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