Local School Receives School Supplies from Local Businesses

READING, Pa. - Sept. 18, 2013 - PRLog -- Nationwide, 99.5 percent of teachers report using their own money on school supplies, teaching equipment, and/or classroom materials, averaging at approximately five hundred dollars per teacher. Here in Berks County, the Daniel Boone School District’s Monocacy Elementary Center is one school that’s budget cuts are affecting childhood education and development.

Merra Lee Moffitt, CFP, Senior Partner at Good Life Financial Group, asked her local business-owner friends and clients to help those teachers get supplies.  Her project "We Love Teachers" raised two car loads of donations for the teachers of Monocacy Elementary.  Merra Lee's team, Jennifer Whelan and Victoria Barrasso, used their Facebook, LinkedIn, and email accounts to ask for donations and raise awareness for this cause.  Many local business owners answered the plea, resulting in dozens of school-supply donations.

Merra Lee Moffitt said, "With all the budget cuts and added stress, teachers need to know local business owners care."

Accepting the donation, Melanie Hefter, Principal of Monocacy stated “Our Monocacy Elementary Center school community would like to extend a sincere and most heartfelt thank you for providing us with your generous donation of supplies to use at our school.  On behalf of everyone at MEC, we thank you for all you have done to support our school community!”

Donations included basic school supplies including pencils, markers and crayons that elementary students use almost constantly to items that teachers need for themselves. Hefter was most appreciative for the donation of two electric pencil sharpeners that are large enough for kindergarten pencils because the school district cannot provide these in their budget.

Business owners that donated include, Interlace Communications, Ken Rick/NuSkin, Noah Brooks/Good Life Financial Group, Steve and Michelle Hnath/Code Relief, Mindee Zimmerman/Thirty-One Gifts, as well as others who did not wish to be named.

"Our local business owners’ care about the future of our community, and sometimes it just takes shining a spotlight to help them see specific, immediate ways they can help," Says Merra Lee.

Merra Lee Moffitt, CFP serves the Greater Reading Business owners in business financial planning. She guides small business owners towards the unique opportunities they have for growing their businesses in this challenging economy and thereby reduces the worry that they, their employees, and their families have about a secure financial future. Merra Lee, AWMA, CMFC, CFP, AIF, Wealth Strategist, is Senior Partner at Good Life Financial Group. Merra Lee and her team can be reached at 711 Spring St., Wyomissing, PA 19610, Phone 610-488-7353, merralee.moffitt@lpl.com, or www.welcome2thegoodlife.com/MerraLee. Like Merra Lee on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/merraleemoffittgoodlifefinancial to see all the individual contributions made by local businesses.