Student Supply Drive

The Nowata County School Supply Drive is a charitable organization working with the Boys and Girls Club of Nowata County helping area students in Headstart through 12th grade and teachers by providing school supplies to those students in need of assistance due to financial difficulties thus helping to make school a better experience for both teachers and students.

The drive started in 2009 and is now an annual project to provide students in Nowata County, Oklahoma with the school supplies they need to start school in the fall. As students sign up, a master list of needed supplies is updated and buyers search out the lowest prices for the thousands of pencils and crayons, among other things, that are needed.

On Packing Day, a small army of volunteers prepares a backpack for each student which contains exactly what the published school supply list says he/she needs. Then, on Pickup Day the backpacks are handed out.