August 12 in the Durrell Center. State University's School Is Cool program will provide more than 800 Poudre School District children with backpacks and supplies this fall. School Is Cool is a community outreach program designed to give less-fortunate children the supplies they need to start the school year. The program, in its seventh year, is funded by donations from Colorado State employees with support from US WEST DEX and Norlarco Credit Union . Through the program, university employees are invited to buy and stuff backpacks or to donate cash used to purchase packs and supplies.
Employees then donate time to stuff and deliver the backpacks to area schools.
You cannot put a price on getting a good start and feeling good about yourself. Cool clearly enables that for a number of our students. More than a quarter of students enrolled in Poudre School District participate in the free and reduced-lunch program. The number of backpacks distributed to each school is based on the school's percentage of students enrolled in this special lunch program. We have been delighted to see the program grow.