2024 Anne’s Kits for Kids Calendar
Make a donation of $30 or more to receive a complimentary calendar!
Click below to go directly to the to the Elkhart Community Foundation website, where you can complete your donation. We will receive a confirmation of your donation and ship a calendar to the address you provide. Donations of $30 or more will receive a calendar, and every $30 increment will receive an additional calendar.
When you arrive at the Community Foundation Website, please choose “Anne’s Kits for Kids” as the program you’d like to support, and complete the steps to make your donation. We receive a report of all donations and will send a calendar to you!
Please, contact us if you have any questions!
How can you make a donation?
There are three ways to make your gift to Anne’s Kits for Kids:
1. Complete your donation on the Community Foundation Website. We will receive donation confirmation and send a calendar to the address provided.
2. Mail your check payable to Community Foundation of Elkhart County, P.O. Box 2932, Elkhart, IN 46515. Please write “Anne’s Kits for Kids” in the memo line.
3. Give your check, payable to the Community Foundation, to Jeff or Grant Longenbaugh.
Image Samples
We are excited to feature the photographs of Grant’s step-sister, Lena Tisten, alongside the photographs of Jeff and Grant Longenbaugh!
What is Anne's Kits for Kids?
Anne’s Kits for Kids is an Elkhart-area program that operates within Concord Community Schools that provides necessary building-block reading, motor skills, memory, and math tools to under-served area children in the Concord Schools. Anne’s Kits operates on the idea that simple childhood educational games & books (like Dr. Seuss & Candy Land) are essential learning tools that create a strong foundation for lifelong educational success! Every kit costs around $75 to assemble, so every calendar purchase goes a long way to create each kit!
How does Anne's Kits for Kids work?
Anne’s Kits for Kids is wholly self-supported through generous donations by people like you and through hundreds of hours volunteered by teachers, parents, administrators, students, and community members. Since starting the program at Concord West Side School in 2007 Anne’s Kits has evolved and grown to provide learning strategies to parents and their children covering reading, language, math, memory and motor skills. After attending several evening sessions with their parent(s), each child takes home their very own “kit” filled with books, educational games, learning exercises, physical fitness items AND a written promise from Mom or Dad to work together on a regular basis toward a great school experience!
How did Anne's Kits start?
Anne Longenbaugh was 22 and a newly-graduated teacher when she died in 2005. Anne’s mother Christine, along with her colleagues, first conceived of Anne’s Kits as a way to address a need in their school and to honor her daughter’s memory. Christine’s co-workers, friends, and family have continued Anne’s Kits after her death in 2006 following a long battle with cancer.
Helping our community’s children is a fitting memory to Chris & Anne, both of whom left our midst with the desire to serve & educate our community’s youth still alive in their hearts.
Donations
Want to give a different amount? You can click here to simply donate an amount of your choosing. Each kit costs about $75 to assemble, as a point of reference.
Apart from giving, sharing our website and the Anne's Kits story with your friends and family is a great help!