Georgia United Credit Union School Crashers Provides Makeover to Woodward Elementary on July 17 and 18.

Georgia United Credit Union will complete their 2nd annual School Crashers school improvement project at Woodward Elementary School today, July 17, and tomorrow, July 18. Georgia United is working alongside the DeKalb County School System in partnership with community volunteers to provide facility and grounds improvements for Woodward Elementary School at 3034 Curtis Drive in Atlanta. Woodward is a Title 1 School, built in 1958, with a current enrollment of 1,030 students and 100 faculty and staff.

Thanks to the shared strength and civic pride of over 200 community volunteers and corporate donors, several significant improvement projects will be completed this weekend. Professional crew leaders have been working hard for weeks, installing landscaping, benches and a gazebo, repairing and replacing the schools’ entrance signage, painting exterior areas and murals in the cafeteria and installing blinds.

Community volunteers will join the effort over the next two days to complete the remaining tasks such as painting yellow safety curbing and paw prints, spreading mulch and pine straw, labeling and sorting books in the media center, painting hallways and classrooms, replacing furniture in the teachers’ lounge, installing chair slippers and assisting teachers with setting up their classrooms.

Georgia United gives special thanks to the following generous corporate donors & partners:

· DeKalb County School District – Interior & exterior paint

· City of Brookhaven – Gazebo donation

· Coca Cola – 3,000+ beverages for volunteers

· Home Depot – 300 bales of pine straw for landscaping

· Chick-fil-a Foundation – Lunch for all volunteers

· Papa Johns – Lunch for all volunteers

· Dunkin Donuts – Breakfast and coffee for volunteers

· Cross Keys Foundation – Volunteer workers

· Salesforce – Volunteer workers

· Rothschild Marketing Group – Afternoon snack break

· Melaney’s Murals – Cafeteria and front entrance murals

· Mohawk Carpet – Carpet for School Crashers’ runners-up makeovers

· The Rayley Group – Project Management and Construction Consulting

· Middle Sister Marketing – All volunteer t-shirts, marketing consulting

· Star94 – Media Partner

· 11Alive – Media Partner

· 680theFan – Media Partner

· Artlite Office Supply Co – Furniture Partner

· DeKalb Medical Center – First Aid Station

· Signs by Tomorrow – Signage

The “before” and “after” photos will be available at www.georgiaunitedcu.org/schoolcrashers next week and Woodward Elementary parents and students will see the improvements when school starts on August 10. Woodward was chosen from among hundreds of nominations from schools across the state to receive Georgia United School Crashers facilities makeover grand prize.

If your school was nominated this year, but did not win the School Crashers grand prize makeover, stay tuned for additional announcements of “runner-up” schools who will receive mini-grants for their own improvement projects during this school year. Debbie Smith, Georgia United’s president & CEO, will announce the School Crashers’ 2015 Mini-Makeover Grant winners next week.

About Georgia United Credit Union

Georgia United Credit Union is ranked as one of the top credit unions in Georgia in both size and safety at over $1 billion in assets, 140,000 members and 17 branch locations. Georgia United seeks to make members’ lives easier by offering products, services and education to help members meet their needs and achieve their goals. Georgia United Credit Union serves all State Agency employees, Board of Regents colleges and universities, employees of over 500 companies and 14 school systems. For more information, please call 770.476.6400 or visit georgiaunitedcu.org.

PHOTO CAPTION: Georgia United’s School Crashers is well underway at Woodward Elementary. Volunteers work around the schoolyard spreading mulch to improve the landscaping as part of this year’s makeover.