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Join us in the 2025 Back to School Drive
Please join WDTL's Back to School Drive to support The Salvation Army's Tools for School in Spokane and Treehouse in the Seattle area.
The Salvation Army's Back to School Drive helps local schoolchildren (grades K–12) with new backpacks and school supplies. This year, 4,000 local kids will receive backpacks from The Salvation Army Spokane.
Treehouse assists youth in foster care and is dedicated to closing the academic gap between them and their peers. The back-to-school drive ensures that youth in foster care have the supplies and support they need for a successful school year. Last year, Treehouse expanded all its programs statewide, ensuring that youth in foster care could access its services regardless of their location.
Kids achieve academically when they feel confident. Your support will help kids begin this school year with a strong start and provide them with the necessary tools to achieve success in the classroom.
The following new school supplies are needed:
- Backpacks (JanSport, Adidas, Carhartt, Nike, Disney, Marvel, etc.)
- Lunch boxes
- Highlighters (multi packs preferred)
- Sharpies (packs of 2 or 3)
- Dry erase/expo markers
- Elmer's glue (bottled glue and glue sticks)
- Pens (blue, black, and red ink)
- Mechanical pencil packs
- Pencils (standard wood #2 pencils)
- Colored pencils (Crayola brand preferred)
- Markers (Crayola brand preferred - normal/fat tip preferred over fine tip)
- Crayons (Crayola brand preferred)
- Erasers (handheld and pencil topper combo pack preferred)
- Pencil sharpeners (handheld)
- Composition notebooks (college ruled, wide ruled and graph paper all needed)
- Wide ruled spiral notebooks
- College ruled spiral notebooks (multi subject notebooks preferred)
- Filler paper (wide ruled, college ruled, and graph paper)
- Index Cards (lined and unlined)
- Binders (1", 2", and 3" needed)
- Basic calculators
- Art sketch pads
- Kids washable paint (Crayola brand preferred)
If you would like to make arrangements for WDTL to pick up donations from your office, please contact Alison Turnbull at (509) 455-3647.
Seattle Area Donations
If you would like to arrange for WDTL to pick up donations from your office, please contact Danielle McKenzie at (206) 295-0191 or Aimee Oldfield at (425) 395-7817.
You may purchase items from the Treehouse Wish List and ship goods directly to the Treehouse Store, 2100 24th Ave S, Suite 100, Seattle, WA, 98144.
If you choose to donate from the Treehouse wishlist, please email Danielle to let her know so that we can thank you.
