This year's Social Justice Run (SJR) and Family Picnic was a big success! We want to thank everyone who helped support the event - our teachers and other PS20 staff, volunteers and everyone who has donated to this year's Social Justice Run. We also appreciate our event partners: Define New York Run Club, PS20 Mosaic, Futbol Rebels, Brooklyn Basketball Academy and It Takes a Village Youth Services.
Most importantly, we want to thank all of the PS20 students who participated in the SJR. Our children rallied and ran laps around Fort Greene Park to raise awareness around child abuse, racism, police brutality, human trafficking, women's equal rights, food insecurity and a number of environmental issues. We have some amazing young leaders in our school community!
Now that our kids did their work, we are asking for your support to help us reach our fundraising goal of $10,000! We are so close - just another $1300 to go!!
You can help by either by making a donation and/or purchasing a Social Justice Run T-Shirt.
This year, half of the funds raised from the race (after we account for the event’s costs) will be donated directly to organizations doing work to address the causes your children's classes have chosen and the other half will be saved into the PTA’s JEDI Fund. The PTA’s JEDI Fund is a valuable resource that allows us to do everything from conducting workshops to ensuring all students can participate in school activities like book fairs and field trips.
We heard from a number of parents that they loved the SJR t-Shirts and wanted to purchase them. Therefore, we will be putting in another order of SJR t-shirts (of all sizes) next week. If you would like a t-shirt (or two or three), please click on this link and put in your order by 5pm on Wednesday, June 5.
With admiration and thanks,
PS20 PTA
