Pays Lend A Hand Foundation up to $10,000 for basic supplies for students experiencing homelessness
Lend A Hand Foundation will provide school supplies, hygiene kits, clothing, snacks and other basic needs for about 2,500 McKinney-Vento students, who are students experiencing homelessness. Items go out as students and schools ask for them. The term is August 29, 2025 to May 29, 2026, and the district can pay up to $10,000. The work started before the board vote.
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- Vendor / partner
- Lend A Hand Foundation · Oakland, CA
- Action
- New agreement
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- Student health, support & family services
- Term
- Aug 29, 2025 – May 29, 2026
- This vote
- $10,000
- Funding
- Homeless Children & Youth
- Resource / site
5630-922- Vendor no.
007680- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
25-1915· agendaL.-40- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, Aug 27, 2025
Official text
Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2025-2026 by and between the District and Lend A Hand Foundation, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide school supplies, hygiene kits, clothing, snacks, and other basic need resources to support the academic success of approximately 2,500 McKinney-Vento students across Oakland Unified School District, distributed on a rolling basis based on student need and school site requests, via Community Schools and Student Services Department, for the period of August 29, 2025 through May 29, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $10,000.00.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report