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Mathnasium Students Provide over 14,024 Meals through Atlanta Community Food Bank
ATLANTA, GA (January 26th, 2018) -- Twenty-One Mathnasium Learning Centers in the Atlanta Metro area teamed up with their students in the month of December to raise over $3,500 which funded a whopping 14,024 community meals through the Atlanta Community Food Bank!
The money was raised by providing the option for each Mathnasium student across the 21 Centers to donate their hard-earned Punch Cards to the food drive. Punch Cards are a means of currency in Mathnasium Centers. Students earn a certain number of punches per Punch Card as a reward for participating in their learning activities and exercises. Once a Punch Card is full, it can be redeemed for various prizes in the Center. Students then walk away with a well-deserved treasure. More than 1,000 big-hearted Atlanta students donated their Punch Cards and each Mathnasium Center Director matched donated Punch Cards dollar for dollar. This resulted in collection of over $3,500 for meals to be available through the Atlanta Community Food Bank.
"The Atlanta Community Food Bank team is excited to partner with the Mathnasium family. This recent fundraising campaign brought $3506 to fight food insecurity in 29 counties of GA and will provide 14,024 meals to families in need. 26.1% of Georgia children don't have enough to eat - that's more than 1 in every 4 kids. We're thankful to Mathnasium for their support and advocacy, and we look forward to partnering with them in the future!" - Alfia Tarassenko, Manager, Corporate Relations.
"We're thrilled that we were able to band together for this effort. It has been one of the highlights of my twelve plus years in the system. We were able to leverage our size and scale and see some tangible life changing results! I am sure from this initial effort we will only grow and be able to make this bigger and better next year." said Chris Lee, organizer of this collaborative effort, and General Manager and Owner of several Atlanta-area Mathnasium Centers.
"Our Atlanta Area Mathnasium Centers are planning to continue supporting the Atlanta Community Food Bank" said William Helmstadter, Franchise Business Consultant for the area. "We will be fielding a Mathnasium Team for the upcoming Hunger Walk/Run in February, and hope to continue helping the good work of this organization"
About Mathnasium
Mathnasium, the nation's leading math-only learning center franchise, specializes in teaching kids math in a way that makes sense to them. When math makes sense, kids excel—whether they're far behind or eager to get ahead. The proprietary Mathnasium Method™ is the result of 40+ years of hands-on instruction and research. Franchising since 2003, Mathnasium has become one of the fastest-growing educational franchises. There are over 900 Mathnasium franchises in the U.S. and abroad. For more information, visit www.mathnasium.com.
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