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Volunteers Needed
Volunteer Positions/Skills Needed These represent our ongoing needs for help and include the type of assistance needed and expected time commitment. Website and Social Media management – making changes and updates to existing WordPress website, creating new Posts and basic website maintenance. Website performance optimization greatly needed. Manage social media accounts, prepare posts based on communication calendar, review post performance. Experience with WordPress a plus (but not required), comfort in online systems, social media posting. Time Commitment: website updates quarterly and prior to/after events (3-4 times a year), social media updates 2×3 times a month, more frequent during fundraisers. Graphic Design/Video Production – working in conjunction with Website and Social…
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2024 FOJPS Virtual 5K Results
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in or donated to our fourth annual virtual 5K – benefiting the students and teachers at John Paul Secondary School in Uganda! Please watch the Kick-off video above which includes footage from the race in Chelekura. It was a wonderful day and the students and teachers were all so happy to be part of a fundraiser helping their school. In fact, the teachers came together to take up a collection in order to help raise money for the 5K event. They see the impact the overcrowded classrooms has on their students, and they want to help. The 5K week was a…
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Thrivent’s Impact for JPSS
Hi, I’m Kim Dwyer, Financial Advisor at Thrivent and huge fan of Friends of John Paul Secondary School. One of the many reasons I love my job is that I help families every single day live and leave a legacy in their faith, family, and finances. I work with people just like you to help them organize their finances, align their goals to their values, and create a clear financial strategy. One of the most exciting things that happens within these conversations is when people realize that they can be more generous than they imagined – and they gain confidence knowing the people and causes they care about are taken…
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Distribution Day!
You, our amazing donors, responded to our call to be able to bring supplies and gear for each of our students, teachers and staff (over 700 people!). Charity wish list orders of sports bras, socks, and drawstring bags poured into Paul and Nancy’s house, and gently used ties were donated by, in some cases, the hundreds! All were carefully packed into 16 large duffle bags that were divided up between the board members traveling to Uganda. Once at the school, we had the whole of Berrigan Hall and all the tables to lay out the items so the students could proceed in and select one of each. Our visiting team…
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Join us at the 9th Annual FOJPS Wine Tasting
Once again, we will be holding our annual Charity Wine Tasting at the chic Silver Spoon Ristorante in Rochester, Michigan. For your enjoyment, five premier wines will be paired with a like number of gourmet tastings. Register for individual tickets or purchase a table and invite your friends. We have a limited number of tickets that we expect to sell out quickly. Please join us on Thursday, October 5th!
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2023 FOJPS 5K Results and Winners
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in or donated to our third annual virtual 5K – benefiting the students and teachers at John Paul Secondary School in Uganda! The 5K week was a huge success: we had 265 participants from all around the world and we received tons of great photos of people walking, running, rolling for the kids. With the $50 per participant pledge, that works out to $13,250 in pledged amount. Combined with tickets and donations, YOU raised over $43,850 for JPSS! We are thrilled with the results! Congratulations to all of you, and especially our photo winners below!
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Walmart Round Up
Anyone who uses Walmart.com or the Walmart app can donate to Friends of John Paul School —just visit Walmart.com/SparkGood, sign up to participate, and designate Friends of John Paul School as your charity of choice on your account (use zip code 48308 in the search to find us). Walmart will round up your purchase total to the nearest dollar at checkout and donate your change FOJPS. As simple as that. What a great way to help the kids at JPSS!
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Help Us Bring ESSENTIALS to Our Students in Uganda
In July 2023, we’ll be returning to the JPSS campus and hope to bring the following items for our 600+ students: Sports bras – all sizes (white and light gray colors please) White knee-high socks, brown men’s dress socks String backpacks Toothbrushes Full-sized toothpaste tubes Shop our Walmart Charity Registry for everything we need to bring and have it shipped directly to us. Would your group, business, church or club like to collect these items for us? The Supplies Drive flyer is available to provide to your organization. Please contact us at info@johnpaulschool.com for more information needed or delivery options.
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Join us at the 2022 Annual FOJPS Wine Tasting
Once again, we will be holding our annual Charity Wine Tasting at the chic Silver Spoon Ristorante in Rochester, Michigan. For your enjoyment, five premier wines will be paired with a like number of gourmet tastings. Register for individual tickets or purchase a table and invite your friends. We have a limited number of tickets that we expect to sell out quickly. Please join us on Thursday, October 6th!
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2022 FOJPS 5K Results and Winners
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in or donated to our second annual virtual 5K – benefiting the students and teachers at John Paul Secondary School in Uganda! The 5K week was a huge success: we had 185 participants from all around the world, we received tons of great photos of people walking, running, rolling for the kids and we earned over $22,250 which will go toward construction of a much needed multi-purpose building and kitchen. And congratulations to all of our photo winners!
