Today Jason, Ben, Miral, Bryce, and me met Dennis Kitchen (Our Contact) at LREI at 4:00.  We spoke awhile about what his organization did and about what we could do.  He showed us this video  Getting Tools to City Schools Video of a teacher talking about her school.  We discussed different ideas for raising money and helping out.  Ben asked if he could place a box like the one in the lobby in one of the NYU dorms because a lot of the students there probably have extra materials.  I suggested we make a poster with a chart to place next to the box in the lobby in order to show what we are missing and what we have collected.  Dennis then told us we needed a place to put all the materials we had gathered so far.  We found a spot in Sarah’s room on top of a closet to store the materials.  We then had to bring the box of supplies from the lobby to the room.  The box was falling apart so for the first part of the move we slid it.  Later we lifted it with the help of the Admissions Office who insisted we were going to hurt ourselves.  We then sorted all the items in the box and counted them up.  I don’t have all the numbers but I know there were around 48 binders, 36 pencil pouches, and enough pencils for over 400 students.   Dennis told us that we needed around 300 binders with 5 pencils, 5 pens, pencil pouches, 50 sheets of paper, and 5 three holed binder dividers.  We have already collected enough pencils but in all the other categories we are lacking.  We are still brain storming ideas for getting more donations.  Please donate supplies by placing them in the box in the lobby.  Thank You.