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CCF/AFC Chapter Donates School Supplies to College Park Elementary
The Pensacola State College AFC Chapter kicked off the academic year by
The College of Central Florida’s Association of Florida Colleges chapter donated
sponsoring breakfast during our new employee orientation. This event welcomed
more than 700 school supply items to College Park Elementary School, estimated to
new faculty and staff to the College and encouraged our new team members to get
be valued between $1,500 and $2,000. Employees collected the items throughout
involved with AFC locally. Obi Kalu, Membership Vice President, spoke with faculty
the month of August in preparation for the new school year.
and staff about the benefits of joining the AFC and the opportunities to connect
with colleagues throughout the state at conferences and other events hosted
“College Park Elementary has a student population with approximately 80
percent of families living in poverty. As a partner, we have a unique opportunity
throughout the year. The Executive Board of the chapter is working on planning
to serve these children and provide school supplies so that they are prepared for
several networking events for our members and are currently collecting items
class, said Kelly Besser, AFC member and business partner liaison. “AFC holds an
for Give Kids the World Village as part of the AFC Annual Conference community
important role in organizing the supply drive; one of the values of AFC is service and
service project.
we’re pleased to include this in our service opportunities.”
The CF chapter has 282 members and has been hosting the school supply drive
annually as part of the partnership it has with College Park Elementary School.
College of Central Florida employees donate school supplies to business partner, College Park Elementary School. Left to Right: Kelley Besser, College Park Elementary School Principal Teresa Forsyth, Mark Ross, Shena Grant, Sarah David and Victoria Colleli M A G A Z I N E
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