Penny Wars is an event that fund raises money for a chosen charity each year. The winning class of the Penny Wars gets to choose the charity that all the fund raised money goes to. Each class (Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors), competes across the three campuses combined (Sheldon, South and Churchill), to end with the most amount of points. Points are derived from the money put into each grades jars. Pennies are positive points and are desirable, all other change constitutes negative points and can be placed in any jar to subtract points to any grades level’s score.

The 2016-2017 Charity for Penny Wars Donations is Food For Lane County! We donated $3,190!

1. For every dollar donated, FFLC can access and distribute three meals.
2. 1 in 5 people in Oregon and Clark County, WA are currently food insecure.
3. This past year, FFLC accessed nearly 8 million pounds of food.
4. About 644,000 Oregonians are food insecure, and of those people, 223,480 are children.
5. 55% of all children in Lane County qualify for free meals through the National School Lunch Program.
6. For the second year in a row Oregon has the nation’s highest rate (30%) for children hunger. In Lane County, it’s about 53%.
7. 76% of surveyors who receive food assistance reported not having enough money to buy food in the past six month.
8. 26% of individuals served at FFLC are children aged 17 or younger.
9. 57% of households say they are able to prepare healthier meals because food they get at a pantry.
10. Students at five schools in the 4J District will automatically start receiving free breakfast and lunch due to a change in the federal program that allows the nation’s highest poverty schools and districts to serve meals at no cost to all enrolled students. Enough students at Cesar Chavez, Howard, McCornack, River Road, and Arts & Technology Academy (ATA) qualified because enough students meet the household income requirement.