VTO is not required to participate in this drive. 

This back-to-school season, households will need to spend an average of $103 per student on school supplies alone. Families often have to make hard choices and choose between school supplies or a weeks’ worth of groceries, fuel to commute to work or payments toward monthly rent.

Give a child the confidence to start the school year with the supplies they need! 100% of donations will go to Quad Cities students that need them. (Supplies donated by Clinton Engineering employees will stay in the Clinton Community.)

United Way’s GOAL: Provide 5,000 Quad Cities students with essential school supplies and raise $12,000.

McCarthy-Bush’s GOAL: Provide $500 worth of school supplies with physical items and/or monetary donations.

Supplies needed

(* notes greatest demand):

#2 pencils, sharpened*
Colored pencils
Composition notebooks
Crayons
Earbuds/headphones
Erasers
Glue sticks*
Pencil boxes
Pens*
Pocket folders*
Rules
Scissors
Spiral notebooks*
Washable markers

Collection boxes will be at each McCarthy-Bush location in the break room and/or main office.