For over 24 years Every Kid Counts (EKC) has been dedicated to helping children by bringing hearts together to help provide programs that help today’s youth become tomorrow’s leaders through educational, athletic and philanthropic programs. EKC encourages you to explore our site to learn more about our wonderful charity, and we are excited to meet you at our next event.
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Every Kid Counts Children’s Charity and its many volunteers and partners have completed our 2017 Back to School Drive Campaign. Over 1300 Back packs were collected and stuffed by our fantastic volunteer team from the Creighton Elementary School District and the McClure Family. This year EKC expanded is outreach not only to support several hundred of students throughout CESD, we provided 300 stuffed back packs to kids at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and over 100 Packs to Holdeman Elementary School in Tempe and several back packs to Maricopa Elementary school. A special thanks goes out to EKC’s Vice president Renee McClure for managing this year’s campaign and to board member David Kessler for braving the heat to picking up and delivering the packs and supplies collected by our partner and many friends at Chase Bank and Level 3 Communications. In addition, thank you to Larry H Miller Foundation for their special grant and from funds raised through several RPM Racing Entertainment event circuit that helped support some of the costs of this event and the to many donors who supported this year’s campaign.
2016 – Another Successful Year!
In 2016, we collected twice as many school supplies than the past year and collected and delivered over 7500 toys which was more than 2000 toys than the 2015 campaign. In addition, we once again provided 9 academic scholarships and we continued to have great success with our “Books to Bikes” Literacy/Child Obesity Prevention Program. In the four years that this program has been in place, the children have read over 80,000 books and we have presented over 800 bikes, helmets and locks to these deserving children throughout Arizona. Sadly we said goodbye to two outstanding contributors to EKC; Mark Gefroh, President of Crown Press and Past Chairman and Honorary Board Member and Robert C Perelka, co director of our Tucson chapter. Both pasted away at the end of December.
