CARE PACKAGES for the homeless/needy (April 2018)

Valentine's Day Placemats (Tues, Feb 6th)

Bottle Cap Sorting Event (Tues, Jan 16th)

​For the past year, Sycamore families have been collecting bottle caps of all sizes and colors for a future art project in our garden. Today, Builders members helped artist, Anette Power, by sorting the almost 30,000 caps by color!

Adopt-A-Family (Sunday, Dec 17th)

Builders Club & Coyote Peer Program came together to adopt ten local families (45 people) who needed some holiday cheer. Our middle school peers were behind us all the way and even helped out with some donations of toys, clothes and gift cards.
A truly magical experience for all!

MACY'S MAKE-A-WISH "BELIEVE CAMPAIGN" (Friday, Dec 8th)
Each year, Macy's teams with Make-A-Wish to raise money for wishes to come true for very sick children. We took part in their "letter writing campaign" where members wrote letters to Santa asking for a wish. We got other teachers involved on campus and turned in over 380 letters. Together with other local Kiwanis groups, we turned in over 7,600 letters on "double dollar night" to raise over $15,000 for future wishes to be granted!

DONATIONS FOR FIRE VICTIMS (Thursday and Friday, Dec 7th/8th)
Quickly after the Thomas fire began, Builders members started asking how they could help with all the displaced families. We did a quick two-day donation collection at the middle school gates. We collected FOUR trucks/cars worth of baby supplies, food, water, towels/blankets/pillows for people who need it. ALL donations were brought to and accepted by Ventura Mission.

WONDER (Sunday, Nov 19th)
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The club members and advisors read Wonder over the past couple weeks. We had
​read-a-louds and group discussions over the issues of bullying, tolerance, and kindness. We celebrated by seeing the movie together!
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WALK FOR A CAUSE (Nov 7th)
Members chose a non-profit to raise money for, we walked over 4 miles, and raise over $5900 for about 40 organizations! Some included CHLA, James Storehouse, Water for South Sudan, and Pet Hope Shelter.

INSPIRATIONAL ROCKS (Oct 2017)
​We designed rocks with inspirational and kind phrases on them to hide around our community in hopes to bring smiles to others, spread kindness and have fun :) 

PEANUT BUTTER DRIVE; We collected over 200 lbs of peanut butter for Feeding America (Sept 2017)

SUPPLIES FOR LA FIREFIGHTERS: we helped Discovery Cube in LA, collect supplies to create cooling stations for the firefighters in Southern California fighting our fires (Sept 2017)

JAMES STOREHOUSE; members and parents sorted shoes and clothes to benefit the foster youth of our community (April 2017)

CARE PACKAGES for the homeless/needy (March 2017)

VALENTINES DAY; Placemats for Seniors (Jan/Feb 2017)

ALBERTSON'S Cuisinart Event (Nov 2016-Jan 2017)

Builders Club decided that we would collect pots/pans/skillets for local charities. For every $10 spent at Albertson's, one sticker is given to the customer. For every 50, 70, 120, or 160 stickers saved, a customer can choose a pot or pan.

We sent e-mail blasts and posted on social media, asking that families who weren't collecting for themselves, donate these stickers to the club. We filled out about 50 booklets of stickers, raising over $3000 worth of pots, pans and skillets.

We are donating thses goods to James Storehouse, Casa Pacifica and Many Mansions. Great job everyone! And THANK YOU for donating those stickers to us!

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2016 ALL-IT-TAKE'S "Spirit of the Holidays" (Dec 2016)

The Coyote Peer Program and Builders Club joined this year to particpate in All It Takes, "Spirit of the Holidays". We adopted 16 families in all, serving over 60 people throughout the Conejo Valley. 

The students were broken up into small groups, they split up the family's "wish list", purchased and wrapped the gifts, and then they were able to deliver their gifts on December 17th.

Many students shared how much this expreience meant to them; to help others in need. Some said it changed their lives.

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2ND ANNUAL "WALK FOR A CAUSE" (Nov 2016)

On Tuesday, November 15th, about 100 of our member participated in our second, "WALK OR A CAUSE" EVENT". Each member chose a charity to walk for; such as CHLA, Animal Shelters, A Walk on Water, American Cancer Society, and Juvenile Diabetes. We raised over $5000 for various local, national and international non-profits! Way to go team!

UNICEF "Trick or Treat" (Oct 2016)

Members were each given a UNICEF "trick or treat" box to fill with change...
and boy did they! 

​Grand total raised for UNICEF is: $270 

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Garden work! (Sept 2016)

 On November 1st, we headed to the Sycamore Canyon Garden where we weeded, cleaned out the edible food beds, and cleaned the hillside. Members worked very hard. To read more, please click here.

SOCK it to you!!! (Sept 2016)

Builders unanimously decided to spend some funds supporting our 7th grade Girl Scout Troop 60329 in their "SOCK It To You" campaign. We bought 87 pairs of socks that the troop will be delivering to Casa Pacifica this October.

First meeting of 2016-2017

Care Packages for the Needy/Homeless

We made close to 250 carepackages for people in our community and surround that may need them. Kids took home packages they assembled to keep in their parent's cars so they could hand them out as the family.

Campus Beautification

Some members decided that the middle school "flower beds" needed some attention as they were filled with overgrown and dead jasmine along with over ten years worth of weeds. 

Attitude of Gratitude

School Supplies for a school in Sri Lanka

Trust Activity

Campus beautification at the Sycamore Canyon Garden

Blankets for kids at Los Robles Hospital

We spent our January 5th meeting, measuring, cutting and tying flannel blankets together so we could deliver some softness and warmth to kids staying at Los Robles Hospital.

We made about 30 blankets to deliver.

Spirit of the Holidays: Adopt-A-Family (December)

We joined the All-It-Takes Foundation during their Spirit of the Holidays event and adopted 17 families throughout Conejo and Simi Valley who needed a little help during the holiday season. Builders Club members shopped for 64 people and then had the amazing opportunity to deliver their gifts to the families! Many different stories to tell & a positive experience for all! Great job, Builders Club!

MANNA:
Helping to restock our local Thousand Oaks food bank

Together with ASB, we advertised, promoted and encouraged all students at Sycamore, K-8, to bring in non-perishable foods that we will later sort and bring to our Thousand Oaks MANNA food bank. Last year, we collected about one month's worth of food for MANNA.
This year, we more than doubled that bringing in 2550 pounds
of non- perishables!! Great job everyone!

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Builders Club Training Conference (BTC)
On Saturday, October 17th, our club was invited to participate in the inaugural BTC hosted by our own NPHS Key Club (our affiliate). Some of our members attended from 10am-2pm. The students chose from various breakout sessions, met other Builders Club members from Los Cerritos, Sequoia, and Simi Valley. They met Key Club members and local Kiwanis members in our community. 

Walk for a Cause
Over 4 miles + 87 degrees + 100 members = SUCCESSFUL walk for a cause event! Each member chose an ​organization/non profit to raise money for by collecting pledges. Total donation to be announced soon...

End-Of-The-Year Kiwanis BBQ

2nd Annual Sycamore Canyon Blood Drive
The members helped host the 2nd Annual Sycamore Canyon Blood Drive by making posters, providing drinks and snacks to the donors as they needed them and even held their hands and kept them company to help pass the time.

Helping out at the NPPB Closing Ceremonies

Appreciating the Under-Appreciated
We made about twenty signs for various people in our community that we feel go under appreciated. We thanked our cafeteria workers, crossing guards, administrative assistants, support staff, and many more! 

Meals on Wheels Placemats
We made about 60 placemats for our local Meals On Wheels organization. They will be delivered to homebound people receiving meals next week.

Sycamore Canyon's Hillside Planting Event 2/3
On February 3rd, the entire club walked over to the Sycamore Canyon garden. We were greeted by the USFW biologist who spoke to the kids about the endangerment of the monarch butterfly, among other things. He then taught the kids about weeding, the advantage of native plants, and how to plant for optimum survival. The sixty kids, along with about ten parents, planted, weeded, and watered. They worked together for one common goal; cleaning and expanding the beautiful garden.

Care Packages for the homeless
Together, we collected small toiletries, snack foods, tooth brushes/tooth paste, decks of cards, socks, waters, washcloths, etc. and put together over 200 care packages!

Adopt-a-Family
We adopted 8 local, Conejo Valley families during the holiday season. We bought everything on their wish lists and provided them with many needs too. We spoiled 28 people.

MANNA & UNICEF's ELIMINATE PROJECT
In October, we collected over $100 in change to donate to UNICEF's Eliminate Project. In November, we teamed with our PTSA to collect no-perishable food items to donate to our local MANNA food bank in Thousand Oaks. In January, we visited the MANNA facility, learned about the organization and spent over an hour sorting all the foods we brought. The director said our donation would be enough to last them three-four weeks, serving about 1500 people.

Acts of Kindness
We heard of a couple local teenagers, and former Sycamore students, going through some tough times...so we decorated their homes so when they returned home from the hospital, they would know they are loved and supported by our community.

Make-A-Wish Foundation/Macy's Believe Campaign
In December, we made a goal to collect/write 1000 letters to Macy's for the 2014 Believe Campaign. For every letter Macy's received, they would turn around and donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. With the help of many K-8th grade students at Sycamore Canyon, we collected almost 1200 letters, which equated to about $1200 to Make-A-Wish.  

Attitude of Gratitude
In November, we decided to surprise the teachers at our school with some "fuzzy-wuzzys". By word of mouth, students visited our table to write little letters to their current and/or past teachers to let them know they were appreciated. We delivered them right before Thanksgiving. 

Billy D'z Restaurant Night Fundraiser
Billy D'z BBQ restaurant teamed with Builders Club and donated 20% of the purchases we made from February 2nd and 3rd. They gave us $300!