Dacula Elementary Awarded Funds for Outdoor Classroom

The students at may not be coffee drinkers yet, but they will soon benefit from their parents’ caffeine cravings thanks to Community Coffee Company.

Community Coffee area sales manager James Gunga and area salesperson Brian McGraw visited Dacula Elementary School on Tuesday, April 17, to present the school with a check for $3,449. The award was in recognition of the students’ efforts in collecting 34,490 UPC labels from Community Coffee packages as part of this year’s Community Cash for Schools program.

“We earned lots and lots of money,” Dacula Elementary principal Mary Lou Enright told the students gathered in the media center for the check presentation. Enright explained the funds will be used to create an outdoor classroom to be named the “Community Coffee Classroom.”

The fundraising effort was spearheaded by PTA co-presidents Michelle Carroll and Kelli Cook, treasurer Kitty Walker and environmental chair Jill Aiella.

This year, Community Coffee will donate $345,000 to schools across the South as part of the Community Cash for Schools program. In total, 917 schools collected over 2 million UPC labels as program participants. In the 23 years since the program launched, Community Coffee has donated over $4.9 million to schools.

For more information about the program, visit the Community Coffee website.