Winter Wish 2017
This year’s Winter Wish event was a great success! This year, 348 children and family members attended Winter Wish at Mt. Tahoma High School on December 18. The families came […]
2017 Annual Luncheon
Join us for our annual Luncheon at the Hotel Murano on June 7th. The event will highlight how Communities In Schools of Tacoma is Building Our Community through our year-round […]
Join Communities In Schools of Tacoma and Graduate Tacoma for Read Across America Day!
Contact Valerie Sweisthal or complete our Volunteer Application below if you would like to volunteer to read to a classroom. Hope you can join us on March 2nd!
Thank you to everyone who came out for Happy Harvest!
The first annual Happy Harvest event was a great success. Staff, board members, volunteers, students, and supporters came out on Thursday, October 1st to enjoy beer from an amazing local […]
CIS Tacoma partners with Jack in the box and KMPS
Help Jack, Holly Quinn, and the Johnson & Johnson morning show stuff the bus on August 23rd and 25th. For more information, visit: http://events.kmps.cbslocal.com/tacoma/events/jack-box-stuff-bus-/E0-001-074128189-1
Tacoma Rainiers offers FREE TICKETS to Kids Night Out at Cheney Stadium
The Rainiers and their community partners have teamed together to treat South Sound kids to a night at Cheney. They have invited our CIS of Tacoma family to join them […]
Stuff the Bus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2014 New Studies Shed Light on Back-to-School Challenges for Low-Income Families Communities In Schools of Tacoma to Host “Stuff the Bus” Campaign to […]
Mt. Tahoma students talk politics with Derek Kilmer
“Tuesday, U.S. Rep Derek Kilmer experienced something rare and wonderful in the life of a member of Congress: He met with a group of diverse and thoughtful constituents who asked […]
Master Builders Donates
The Master Builders Association of Pierce County is donating $34,630.54 to Communities in Schools Tacoma, profits from the House for Hope project.
Tacoma’s Rite of Fall–Backpack Suffing
Buying school supplies for kids they don’t know ranks high on the list of Tacomans’ finest habits. No sooner do crayons go on sale for a quarter and markers hit 50 cents than Tacomans load up the shopping cart, swipe the debit card and broadcast the tools for a happy school year.