Check out this article about CJ! Her story was featured on The Royal Gazette, Lynnwood High School’s paper. We are so proud of what she has accomplished and look forward to seeing this unfold. The article was written by Mackenzie Quinton, Staff Reporter | The Royal Gazette, Lynnwood High School.
Category: NEWS & UPDATES
Brier Elementary will be a pledge recipient!
Great news! A Brier Elementary student raised $365 with the help of her family. She started her fundraising page earlier this year. Today, she met her goal and her school will be receiving a $365 check from A Dollar A Day For A Year. We’ll post updates once we have more news to share about…
Edmonds School District Welcomes PLEDGE365
Tonight, these amazing kids attended a Parent Organization meeting at their school district. They met with parent groups and discussed ways to help raise funds to support programs, buy new books for libraries, fill gaps caused by budget cuts and using PLEDGE365 as a fundraising portal in addition to the wonderful fundraising activities planned for the…
Two years ago today…
… we started this site to share our journey with you. In the process of filing for paperwork, incorporating, starting a nonprofit organization from a child’s vision, quitting my job to focus on this, dealing with state and federal requirements, finding people to join our board, reaching out to strangers about our mission, trying to…
Allstate Foundation awards a child’s Nonprofit Organization its first grant!
A Dollar A Day For A Year, brainchild of 14-year-old CJ Sternfels, receives a $1000 grant from The Allstate Foundation. The Foundation offers several grant programs to support charitable organizations where Allstate employees, agency owners and personal financial representatives volunteer. “This will help us with our expenses as we launch PLEDGE365 this summer. It couldn’t…
Our first success story
Great news! We now have a success story to share. Here’s a letter from the Principal upon receiving a $365 check from A Dollar A Day For A Year… Here is an email on how our first pledge helped… We are able to use the money for supplementing our Math Support curriculum through a program…
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