Staples Teams Up with City Year to Make Graduation Happen in Classrooms Across the Country
May 04 2015 - 12:27PM
Business Wire
Staples to donate up to $125,000 to City
Year through a 15 percent match of Staples Gift Card purchases in
store and online now thru May 30
Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) and national service organization City
Year AmeriCorps have teamed up to provide high-need classrooms with
the tools and resources necessary to make graduation happen for
students across the country. Staples will match 15 percent of the
face value of Staples brand gift card purchases up to $125,000 and
donate the proceeds to City Year. The program begins in Staples’
stores and on Staples.com from now thru May 30.
The Staples’ gift card match donation is one part of Staples’
commitment to City Year, an education-focused organization
dedicated to helping students and schools succeed. For more
information on the City Year gift card match, please visit:
http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/giftcards/index.html.
In addition, this spring Staples will deliver $40,000 of
essential school supplies to 262 City Year classrooms across the
country as part of its Classroom in a Box initiative. The Classroom
in a Box includes Staples brand products such as paper, markers,
notebooks, notecards, glue sticks and more.
“Through our commitment to City Year with the Staples gift card
match donations and our Classroom in a Box program, we are thrilled
to be providing necessary school supplies and tools to help the
organization’s important mission of making graduation happen,” said
Frank Bifulco, executive vice president global marketing, Staples.
“We are proud to work with City Year and supply the resources to
help students achieve academic and future success.”
“We are grateful for Staples investment in City Year and its
dedication to help increase high school graduation rates,” said
Chris Mann, City Year Vice President Corporate Partnerships. “Every
year, almost 800,000 students drop out of school. We know that
students who graduate high school are on a path to greater success.
We are grateful to Staples for providing much needed tools and
supplies to help make this a reality in the schools our passionate
team members serve.”
Locations throughout the country that will receive the
“Classroom in a Box” include: Baton Rouge, Chicago, Cleveland,
Columbia, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, Little Rock, Los
Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, New Hampshire, New Orleans, New York,
Orlando, Rhode Island, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Jose/Silicon
Valley, Seattle, Tulsa and Washington, D.C. A total of 262 schools
and 170,000 students will be directly impacted by the
donations.
Celebrate Graduation and Win a
TripIn addition to the Staples gift card match donation
and Classroom in a Box programs, Staples will celebrate graduation
with a sweepstakes, awarding a trip for two to Los Angeles and the
Staples Center to see Taylor Swift in concert in August. Consumers
can enter May 3 through May 30 by tweeting a story about who helped
and inspired them to graduate and include @Staples,
#MakeGradsHappen and #Sweeps in their tweet.
For more information on the #MakeGradsHappen sweepstakes, please
visit:
http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/products/150503/46077/index.html.
About City YearCity Year is an education-focused
organization founded in 1988 dedicated to helping students and
schools succeed. City Year partners with public schools in 26
urban, high-poverty communities across the U.S. and through
international affiliates in the U.K. and Johannesburg, South
Africa. Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members provide
high-impact student, classroom and school-wide support, to help
students stay in school and on track to graduate from high school,
ready for college and career success. A proud member of the
AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is made possible by
support from the Corporation for National and Community Service,
school district partnerships, and private philanthropy from
corporations, foundations and individuals. Learn more at
www.cityyear.org.
About StaplesStaples makes it easy to make more happen
with more products and more ways to shop. Through its world-class
retail, online and delivery capabilities, Staples lets customers
shop however and whenever they want, whether it’s in-store, online
or on mobile devices. Staples offers more products than ever, such
as technology, facilities and breakroom supplies, furniture, safety
supplies, medical supplies, and Copy and Print services. Staples
also offers free shipping for Staples Rewards Members, in most
cases overnight. Headquartered outside of Boston, Staples operates
throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New
Zealand. More information about Staples (SPLS) is available at
www.staples.com.
StaplesKaitlyn Reardon,
508-253-4195kaitlyn.reardon@staples.com
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