PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

Basic needs program - this program provides assistance to pps students and their families by providing funds for food, clothing and shelter. School staff and principals complete a request form identifying the student/family and what type of assistance they need. The pps reviews these requests and provides the needed funds. Examples of food assistance include grocery orders, weekend snack packs for students and stocking our little free pantries at each school. Examples of clothing assistances include new uniforms, undergarments, winter gear, shoes and eye glasses. Examples of shelter assistance include funds for rent, bill payment of utilities, and basic need items for the home. For fye 6.30.24, we used $150,000 in grant funds received from the state of illinois and the remaining $14,689 was covered by individual donations given to this specific program.

Additional programs with over $5,000 granted out for fye 6.30.24 include:1) student scholarship program - $51,2382) classroom grant program - $29,3683) music & arts programming - $5,9294) attendance incentives program - $5,325we also have many smaller programs where the funds raised are restricted to be used only for those programs. Together these programs granted out a total $11,503 for fye 6.30.24.