Rosa's Will 2019 Annual BackPacks To School Fundraiser

Our mission is to facilitate the eradication of generational poverty through economic, educational, and communal acts of empowerment for the economically disadvantaged.



-- In 2018, The William James & Rosa Lee Little Foundation (www.rosaswill.org/programs) partnered with The William M. Boyd Elementary School (30318 zip-code) to distribute backpacks.



-- We are utilizing The United Way of Greater Atlanta's Child Well-Being Index in our efforts.


-- Child Measures: High School College & Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI) Score High School Graduation Rate % Exceeding 3rd Grade Reading % Exceeding 8th Grade Mathematics % Low Birth Weight Births % Under 18, with no Health Insurance % Under 18 in Poverty.



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Family Measures: % Families Not Financially Stable, % Families with Housing Cost Burden, % Births to Moms Without a High School Diploma.



-- Community Measures:

% Enrolled in Post-Secondary Education % Adults Without a High School Diploma % Adults Without Health Insurance Unemployment Rate.


-- See the United Way Full Child Well-Being Measures Index:

https://www.unitedwayatlanta.org/child-well-being-overview/ https://www.unitedwayatlanta.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2018-Stakeholder-Report_CTT.pdf

(SOURCE: United Way, 2019).



-- 80% of donation funds will again be contributed to the purchasing and distribution of backpacks filled with school supplies to children living within low or very low Child Well-Being of the 30318 zip code

SOURCE: United Way, 2019: https://www.unitedwayatlanta.org/stakeholder/.