With these funds I will create and provide Northside 9th grade students with their first ever class t-shirts! Our students demonstrate growth from humble beginnings and steadfast determination to reach their goals every day. We are nestled in a unique area of Houston, TX where low-income families work incredibly hard to send their students to our school. Our mission is simple: create opportunities through equality and choice that will enable our students to reach college and transform our community. How do we do it? By giving 100% every day and whatever it takes to ensure the success of our kids.

Here at YES Prep Northside, our 9th graders demonstrate a breath-taking passion for education each and every day. They recently adopted a new identity that will carry them through their high school years until they graduate together and go off to college in 2019. We will now be known as THE PILLARS of Northside! Though they each have individual strengths, when they band together, they support our entire school! As they enter their 4th year here at Northside, with your help, we would like to provide them with a class t-shirt that they can wear on Fridays and on college-visits that represents both the class of 2019 and their pillar identity.

We will be purchasing shirts through Customink.com. See our starting point below:

http://www.customink.com/styles/gildan-ultra-cotton-t-shirt/04600#image-link 

Currently, the design is a mystery because we would like students to design it themselves. If we meet our funding goal, I will surprise students with the news and begin the design and creation process. We would like to have these ordered and delivered to students before our first trip in October so that they can go out into the community and show off their new, custom tees! At about $10 a t-shirt, for 140 students, plus taxes and shipping, the cost of supplying our deserving students with this gift cannot be covered by our very limited budget. Without your contribution, they will unfortunately go without. Please help me accomplish this long overdue goal for our amazing kids!

Thank you!

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