a tradition of giving
Giving Tuesday celebrates a national day of giving
Double Your Donation On #GivingTuesday!
#GivingTuesday is Tuesday, November 30, and this year — more than ever — it’s a great day to make a gift to University Liggett School! Not only will your gift be doubled, but you will also support our students and faculty.
Our Annual Fund allows us to offer our students an innovative curriculum, top-notch faculty, exciting field trips, the best technology, incredible arts, and excellent – state championship-winning – sports teams. We rely on the generosity of our broader community, including alumni and friends, to help us remain the very best independent school in the Detroit Metro area.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS
Double Your Donation, TODAY Only!
Every dollar donated on #GivingTuesday will be doubled, up to $25,000,
thanks to a generous donation from Ralph Harik ‘97.
DID YOU KNOW...
Our students give back to our community year-round! Teaching our students about philanthropy and giving back starts in Pre-K with our mitten tree and goes all the way through Upper School with student-initiated and driven causes including a sock drive and breast cancer awareness penny wars. Be sure to check out our emails and social media throughout the day to learn more about what University Liggett students are doing to help the community. Here are a few ways our students give back.
Coat & Food Drives
Each month during the school year the Lower School student council and community service committee run a canned food drive. Students are encouraged to bring in non-perishable food items on the last Friday of every month.
During the month of November, the student council has initiated a winter coat drive where they are collecting gently used coats, snowpants, hats, mittens, gloves and boots.
All donations go to Crossroads of Michigan.
Gobblepalooza
Gobblepalooza, is a beloved tradition in the middle school where students gather donations for Crossroads of Michigan, a metro Detroit social service outreach organization that provides emergency assistance, advocacy, and counseling to those in need.
To help support the mission of Crossroads students gather non-perishable food items, gently used clothing, toiletries, and baby items to help stock their pantry for members of the community who are in need.
In each of the last three years, an entire Liggett school bus has been filled with donations.
Shoes That Fit
Shoes That Fit is a non-profit based out of Claremont, California. They help organizations, such as Liggett, raise funds in order to provide new athletic shoes for children in need, and personally pair these groups with local schools in their area.
Last Spring Ally Metry ‘23 and Summer Orlowski ‘23 spearheaded a campaign, and with the help of Mrs. Kirsten Hibbs and her Peer Tutoring Program raised more than $6,000, which went toward 225 pairs of shoes!
In early November, the shoes were dropped off at Hamilton Academy Elementary & Middle School in the Chandler Park area of Detroit.
This spring the students will be raising funds again for Shoes That Fit, but this time with the backing of Student Body President Matthew Greene ‘22 and the entire Student Council. In addition Metry, a co-founder of the Shoes That Fit Liggett Chapter, applied and already received a Tau Beta Recognition Grant for $2,500 to be applied to this year’s 2022 spring campaign.
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