Community Corner
Astoria Federal Launches 'Kids Tools for School' Drive
Wantagh and Seaford locations participating in 13th annual event for Astoria Federal Savings;
Astoria Federal Savings' 13th annual Kids Tools for School collection drive will take place throughout August to help prepare children for the start of the new school year. The program provides local students whose families struggle to afford school supplies with the much-needed educational tools to excel and perform well in the classroom.
Starting Aug. 1, the community is invited to participate by bringing their donations of new school supplies or cash to purchase supplies to any one of Astoria Federal Savings’ 85 branches in Nassau, Suffolk, Brooklyn, Queens and Westchester. Those branches include both:
- (1149 Wantagh Ave.)
- (3887 Merrick Road)
Astoria Federal is committed to its philosophy of “Putting people first” in the neighborhoods it serves, and will match up to $10,000 in cash donations to purchase additional supplies to be distributed to local children without school supplies for this upcoming school year.
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Astoria Federal Savings will once again team up with local schools, shelters and human service organizations to distribute supplies to children in need. More families than ever are likely to find themselves in difficult financial situations this year — many for the first time — and may be unable to provide their children with school supplies, which typically cost as much as $100 per child. As a result, some children may arrive atschool this September without supplies or are forced to recycle last year’s.
The Kids Tools for School collection drive is part of Astoria Federal’s Education First initiative, which includes special savings accounts for students, an annual Teach Children to Save Essay Contest and school outreach programs to promote financial literacy, as well as The First Home ClubTM to promote homeownership. These programs and others were all designed to encourage lifelong learning in the communities Astoria Federal serves. For additional information about Astoria Federal’s Kids Tools for School collection drive visit www.astoriafederal.com.
