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In 2005, we brought a seed of an idea from Portland, Oregon, for a free school supply store. An LP Foundation grant to the Pencil Foundation, Nashville’s school-community partnership, helped plant the seed in our new hometown. In three short years, LP Pencil Box has grown to a flourishing community-supported success story. It’s a place where Nashville teachers can shop free for school supplies for their students who cannot afford to buy them. Last year, 72% of Nashville Metro school students were low-income children qualifying for free and reduced lunch.

The LP Foundation is pleased to support the LP Pencil Box with cash donations for operations. Since 2006, we have also sponsored a collection drive in partnership with the Titans at the first preseason game at LP Field and a supply drive at our corporate headquarters.

In 2009, LP Pencil Box won the Frist Foundation Award of Achievement for Team Building in the 2009 Nashville-based Center for Nonprofit Management’s annual Salute to Excellence awards.

The non-profit organization, which The LP Foundation helped found in partnership with the PENCIL Foundation, received a $20,000 grant from the Center for Nonprofit Management with the award. The grant will further the group’s mission of getting much needed supplies into classrooms in Nashville public schools.

Since its inception four years ago, LP Pencil Box has put more than $1.6 million worth of school supplies into the hands of nearly 94,000 students.

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A student thank you for school supplies from LP Pencil Box

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