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District looking for faith-based partners BY DR. CURTIS FINCH Deer Valley Uni�ied School District Superintendent
“Y
es, Virginia…there is a Santa Claus.” This phrase was attributed to a notoriously cantankerous newspaper editor, Frances Church, in an 1897 editorial to a skeptical young girl’s letter to the New York Sun newspaper. Church’s answer? Santa is “certainly represented in love, generosity and devotion.” The young reader obviously wanted to know if Santa was the real deal. Frances’
response was true, if the right perspective was taken. Santa is not about receiving gifts, but about giving to others. The 1,750-year “right jolly old elf” is always searching for helpers to spread community generosity, and so is the Deer Valley Uni�ied School District. The district is looking for a few faithbased community partners who want to make a difference with needy families in our attendance area, but we have been unsuccessful securing the right collaborators. The district wants to join with a local partner and sign up for the “CityServe” program recently unveiled by Grand Canyon University.
CityServe is a national organization that collects and distributes new, and “in-kind,” items from big corporations like Amazon, Costco, Home Depot and Walmart. Everything from furniture to small appliances arrive in semi-trailers to GCU at least two times a month. Grand Canyon is the new CityServe HUB for Arizona and jumped right into the role six months ago by renovating a 35,000-square-foot warehouse on its main campus. The idea of going bigger came from its successful program with the USDA called “Farmers to Families”
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