Bob’s Discount Furniture providing donations for K-12 schools

Each year, Bob’s Outreach gets countless submissions and picks a single K-12 school in each of the nine states (CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, MD, VA) where Bob's Discount Furniture merchants can be found to win a $5,000 grant. The funds can be used to support cultural arts programs through the 2011-2012 school year. 

 

As portion of the contest, each winning school receives a particular delivery from the representative of Bob's Discount Furniture Outreach Team, which awards the grant and also visits with students as well as faculty.

 

"Bob's has always been helpful of education and the arts, and we're delighted to proceed allowing these kinds of contributions to schools to enable them to supplement and boost their arts programs," said Cathy Poulin, Public Relations Director, Bob’s Discount Furniture. "It’s generally amazing to see the gratitude of the teachers and students when presenting the grant checks."

 

“The West Woods school community was delighted! This news regarding earning Bob's Celebrate the Arts Contest arrived at the perfect time,” said Principal Alicia Bowman of the West Woods Upper Elementary School in Farmington, Conn. “We will make use of this money to support cultural programs that enrich our curriculum and serve as trademark experiences for the 5th as well as sixth graders.”

 

“Winning the particular Celebrate the Arts Contest is a dream come true for our educators, pupils as well as community,” said Principal Vicki Stewart from the Central School in South Berwick, Maine. “Our team seriously values arts in education and we’re consistently trying to find innovative methods to provide exclusive opportunities to enrich our student programs.”

 

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About Bob's Discount Furniture 

 

Known as the 2008 Furniture Retailer of the season, together with 42 outlets situated throughout New England, New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Virginia, Bob's Discount Furniture has created powerful brand attention and also customer commitment by providing top quality furniture at daily discount prices, along with a distinctive as well as enjoyable shopping experience. First-time guests are pleasantly surprised because of the relaxing atmosphere and vast selection of trendy as well as reasonably priced home furniture that outperforms their particular "discount" expectations. As part of the overall shopping experience, almost all retailers feature a free of charge café together with flavored coffee, ice cream, fresh prepared cookies and candy. For additional information.

 

About Bob's Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation 

 

Through the Bob's Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation and Bob’s Outreach program, Bob Kaufman, Cathy Poulin and all of Bob's Discount Furniture personnel aid countless non-profit agencies together with sponsorships as well as charitable contributions. For over 15 years Bobs Discount Furniture has connected with the American Red Cross in New England and has by means of direct in store blood drives brought up over 21,000 productive units and over 15,000 units through a blood mobile contributed in 2006. Amid the numerous other backed charities are Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters, Easter Seals, The Jimmy Fund, American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, National Conference for Community Justice, The Johan Santana Foundation, The Andrus Children Center, Connecticut Children's Medical Center and Special Olympics. For additional information concerning the foundation and Bob's Discount Furniture, visit www.mybobs.com/charity.

 

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