PACER

2006-2007
  Dave and Duke Energy Foundation               approx.  $426 
  Dresden Rotary from Original Trust              approx.  $500
  Dresden Rotary new funding                                        $0
                                Total to DACS             approx. $930

2007-2008
  Dave and Duke Energy Foundation               approx.  $426 
  Dresden Rotary from Original Trust              approx.  $250
  Dresden Rotary new funding                    $???               
                                Total to DACS             approx. $630

2007-2008 School year will deplete the original Duke-Energy Grant held in trust by Dresden Rotary.
 

This from the original contract with Duke Energy Foundation:

Alleviate Poverty Project:  “Children’s Needs Fund” 

SCOPE: Establish a sustainable  “Children’s Needs Fund” for the Dresden Area Central School  (public elementary, ages 4-12). From the fund, the school receives $1000 to be distributed annually for years to come. Within some general guidelines, the principal or administration staff, spend portions of the $1000 gift as the need arises and as the see fit.  Priority is given to food, medical and clothing requirements. The $1000 annual budget may increase as well as the program may expand to include the Separate School in the future. 

PURPOSE: There’s a need for snack type lunches (cheese and crackers, pudding clubs), medicine, glasses, clothing (boot, coats, socks, hats mitts, etc.), field trips or camps, etc.  in our public school.

Some families cannot afford food**, a doctors visit, an antibiotic for an ear infection, a visit to an Optometrist or glasses.  On occasion, all of a class is going on a field trip but the one child’s parents can’t afford the few dollars which would allow their child to go. There are one day camps available that certain children have earned the right to go on but there parents cannot afford the tuition. 

** The school staff  does not ask why the child has no lunch. Sometimes the child forgets (maybe) their lunch or is still hungry. Often, the child wasn’t provided lunch by the home.