SRP (Student Resource Planning): Attivo Cares Gives Back to Homeless Children in Los Angeles

Last month the Attivo Group launched the official charitable arm of our company, Attivo Cares.  While we have been giving back to the community for years, the Attivo Cares program offers our customers a chance to get involved as well, without having to do anything differently than what they already do now.

Our first official partner in the Attivo Cares program was the American Wheelchair Mission.  Today we are proud to announce our second partner, the Reo Backpack Company. This organization is doing wonders in the Southern California Community by providing free backpacks and school supplies to homeless children throughout the region.

For every new user of any software program sold by the Attivo Group, we will donate 1 backpack full of school supplies to a needy child.  This is in addition to the donation already being made to the American Wheelchair mission and comes at no extra cost to the customer.

There are roughly 51,340 homeless people in Los Angeles County alone.  Of that figure, 20% are families with school aged children.  The Reo Backpack Company donates backpacks to these children filled with notebooks, pencils, colored pencils, an eraser, a ruler, two glue sticks, and pens.

These school supplies are vital to a child’s ability to thrive in a school environment and also eases the burden often placed at the feet of teachers, who on average spend $900 of their own money on school supplies for underprivileged students.

In addition to providing a backpack full of school supplies to needy children, a portion of all donations will go to the Maria Luisa Lara scholarship fund.  This scholarship is granted every year to a homeless child or foster child who will be attending college or a trade school.

We are so proud to at the Reo Backpack Company to our list of Attivo Cares partner charities.  And we are thankful to you, our customers, for allowing us to contribute to such a worthy cause.