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FUND-A-NEED: Healthy Bodies - Healthy Minds
LCIS would like to establish a wellness initiative to promote healthy lifestyles and a healthy environment to the children we love.
The initiative will have an education component with ongoing opportunities for students, parents and staff to learn more about health and wellness, healthy body image and how to get the nutrition our children need to perform well in the classroom and on the field. It will support the school’s Eco-Club initiatives for a healthy Green School such as plastic reduction, organic gardening and use of healthier natural cleaning products.
With your support, we can provide access to a new purified drinking water system.
But most importantly, to provide food that better supports the development of our children and needs of our community, we need to build a new kitchen facility.
Exciting plans are already underway including getting input through student and parent surveys and a parent academy, and creating an RFP for new vendors. World renown architects Cooper Robertson are partnering with us to design a kitchen informed by our values and choices that families want.
One day, we will even be able to connect this facility to our new Multipurpose Building. We need your support to begin to make the changes we need to improve the facilities.
Tonight, we ask for you to raise your paddle for our children and our school. Quality food service is essential to better educational and sports performance. We don’t have any way to provide the range of nutritional options that parents and children want right now.
The expanded facility and professional grade equipment will help us provide more choices appropriate to a range of ages. More storage space will allow for a wider range of fruits and vegetables including smoothies and salad bar. More prep space will allow for less processed foods and allow us to serve a range of tasty foods with the nutrients needed to help our children grown and learn.
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We now need your support for your children. The capital improvements are beyond what we can achieve with tuition dollars. We need your support for the Annual Fund TONIGHT to help us make this significant difference. Your gifts will be immediately implemented to support summer works including the construction of the new kitchen facility and installation of the new water system.
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Key phrases for auctioneer lead-in
No one loves their children more than the parents and grandparents. I’m sure an initiative like this will get the support of everyone in the room as we all have someone we love at the school.
You have already got the best education on the island for your children. Now help us make sure that they are best prepared to learn in that environment.
We don't want to wonder what else we could have done to promote the health and wellness of our students. We have a very exciting opportunity here to make a significant difference in the environment where our children spend 8 hours a day.
Our goal tonight is $325,000 to make this happen.
Coming into the room tonight we have alredy had $XXXXX online. And I have a gift from an anonymous donor to start the bidding at $50,000.
I know we have some construction families in the house tonight. We want to count on you to help offset the costs of this construction. Raise your paddle to make a gift in kind of supplies or services.
Healthy bodies means healthy minds. Please show you love.
You can continue to contribute to this cause through the weekend online. If you didn’t get the silent or live auction item you wanted, please consider donating your last bid to the Annual Fund or this Capital Improvement Project.
