How Your Team Can Fuel a Strong School Year

As students prepare to head back into the classroom for the 2025-2026 school year, parents and educators are facing increasing challenges associated with the rising cost of school supplies. According to Deloitte’s 2024 Back-to-School Survey, parents planned to spend an average of $586 per child (K-12), with total spending projected to reach $31.3 billion. 

With inflation expected to push costs even higher for the 2025-2026 school year, families are feeling the added strain of rising living expenses, making it harder to afford basic classroom supplies. Teachers often step in to fill the gap, covering the cost on their own. In 2024, teachers spent an average of $895 of their own money on school supplies according to a Spring 2025 Teacher Spending Survey—a figure that continues to trend upward.

That is where your team can step in and make a difference. By partnering with Impact 4 Good, you can support students and classrooms through purpose-driven action. 

DIY Impact Kits

Readers to Leaders: Reading plays a vital role in a child’s development, yet 1 in 4 children in the U.S. grow up without learning to read. This Impact Kit supports child literacy by providing books and materials to create 50 bookmarks and 50 bookplates that inspire a love for reading. 

Rolling into STEM: Ignite students’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), by assembling and donating 50-hands on STEM project packs for students in underserved communities. 

School Supply Kit: This DIY Impact Kit provides essential school supplies, like notebooks, pencils, and folders, ensuring every child has the resources to succeed. A single kit covers 48 students.

Team Building Activities

Classroom Heroes: This activity consists of teams participating in interactive, classroom-themed challenges and subject-based activities like Reading, English, Science, and Math, before assembling essential school supply kits for teachers. Kits are donated to underserved classrooms. 

Computers 4 Kids: Teams assemble computers for students and design capes to inspire them as future STEAM Superheroes and innovators. Computers are donated to a local charity with a focus on STEAM education and coding. 

Pipeline Challenge: This hands-on team building activity supports STEAM education for students in local charter schools or after-school programs. While teams compete to build ping pong ball delivery systems using materials like bamboo and rope, they also assemble STEAM Experiment Kits to donate.

To date, thousands of schools and tens of thousands of students have benefited from our education-centered activities. 

Join us in supporting students, education, and schools. Help us fuel a strong school year for all!