— Nancy Ochi - Fremont Education Foundation

The Fremont Education Foundation focuses on providing experiences for our district students that might be beyond the reach of the normal school budget. We search for ways to assist the staff with innovative teaching methods, preferably ones that will encourage student creativity. KidsKards note cards fit right in to our theme. It allowed us to promote the students themselves, while raising funds for our various projects. The flexibility allowed us to create variety packs of cards from submitted student art, as well as offer the program to any student who wanted their personal art reproduced.

Our district covers grades K-8, so we elected to offer two different variety packs. One featured work from grades K-3, the other grades 4-8. There was a noteable difference in the maturity of the work produced by each group, thereby making each assortment attractive to all families. We featured the variety packs on a color-copied order form, and printed a personal order form on the back side for individual student work. Even younger siblings were able to participate! Students created their own birthday cards to send to their friends.

We were so happy with the proofs that we also ordered additional quantities of each variety pack shrink wrapped with a cover card so that we could offer them at school events. Since we did our fund raiser late in the school year, we promoted the cards as ideal end-of-the-year teacher gifts and Mother's Day presents.

The best part is that you can always order more!