Our Wish ListWant to help?

Check out the categories below for an extensive listing of items currently needed at one or more of our Club sites. If you would like to donate any of these items, please call (816) 361-3600 or fill out our Online Donation Form and we will let you know where to drop them off or make arrangements to pick them up.

You can also make a cash donation and we will be happy to purchase any of the items below for you to donate to the Clubs!

Would you like to organize a collection of art supplies, paper goods or any other group of items below? Call us to find out how to set up your own collection!

Contributions

• $30 Pays the average combined utility bills for one hour in the winter months at two Club sites
• $50 Buys new board games & Legos to make learning fun
• $75 Buys new paints, clay & other supplies for one week of art programming at a Club site
• $100 Purchases computer software for three computer labs
• $150 Buys one digital camera for a Club youth to participate in a photography competition
• $200 Pays for 40 museum admissions on a Club field trip
• $250 Provides a session of swim lessons for five Club youth
• $300 Provides one full year of after-school tutoring for one child

Arts & Crafts Supplies

• Canvas for acrylic painting
• Clay & modeling tools
• Colored pencils & drawing pencils
• Crayons, markers & drawing chalk
• Drawing paper
• Poster board (white)
• Construction paper
• Colored butcher paper
• Large portfolio to hold display panels
• Paints (oils, pastels, acrylic, tempra & watercolor) & Brushes
• Photography materials (35mm black & white or color film and Polaroid film)
• Picture and poster frames with matting materials
• Portable display panels for presentations
• Wall hanging supplies

Learning Center Equipment        

• ACT/SAT prep books and software
• Books & magazines
• Reference books
• Maps

Computer centers  

• Calculators
• Computer paper
• Educational software/games
• Headphones for computers
• Ink cartridges, any size
• Laser or ink jet printers (preferably HP, any size)

Electronics        

• Digital cameras
• Commercial karaoke machine with CD assortment
• Computer games
• Converter boxes for televisions
• Youth DVDs/videos
• DVD players
• Music compact discs (any type for use in Music Appreciation Class)
• Nintendo Wii
• Sony Playstation
• Portable sound system (speakers, microphones)
• Portable stereo for drill team performances and Club picnics
• Televisions (any size, especially big screen)
• TV/VCR combos
• Walkie talkies
• X-Box 360

Sports Equipment 

• Aquatic games (e.g. basketball, water polo)
• Baseball gloves (sizes to fit ages 5-18)
• Basketballs and Kickballs
• Cheerleading & dance uniforms/costumes
• Exercise equipment
• Fishing equipment (rods, reels, various tackles)
• Golf clubs (especially left-handed) & balls
• Hula hoops
• Jump ropes
• Life jackets
• Racquetball equipment
• Tennis equipment
• Volleyball equipment
• Footballs and Flag football sets

Game Rooms   

• Board games (Connect Four, Catch Phrase, Guess Who, Monopoly, Scrabble, Sorry, Yahtzee, checkers, chess, Candy Land, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Trouble, Chutes & Ladders, Frustration, Don't Break the Ice, etc.)
• Mancala
• Bingo
• Playing cards, UNO, Phase Ten
• Puzzles
• Educational games
• Dominoes
• Trivia games
• Legos
• Pool tables, covers, sticks
• Folding ping pong tables & paddles
• Carpet Ball
• Foosball Tables
• Arcade games - stand-up units
• Bumper pool tables
• Air hockey tables

Furniture 

• Bean bags
• Couches (new) for lounge areas
• Deep fryer
• 5-drawer lateral file cabinets
• 5-shelf storage cabinets
• Fish tanks
• Furniture & decorations for Teen Centers
• General use chairs & office chairs (both rolling & stationary)
• Lounge chairs (any type of big, comfortable chair)
• Newspaper recycling bins (6)
• Refrigerator
• Rocking chairs
• Locking storage cabinets
• Office desks and credenzas (matching, if possible)
• Book shelves

Miscellaneous  

• Blockbuster video cards
• Bus passes
• Copy machines
• Cotton candy machine
• Gift certificates for: food, clothes, electronics, movies, cds and shoes, etc.
• Gumball machines
• Movie passes
• Paper goods - plates, napkins, toilet paper, paper towels, cups, utensils
• Popcorn machine
• Pre-paid phone cards
• Sno-cone machine