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The Great PUCS
Serve-A-Thon
The Great PUCS Serve-A-Thon takes place each spring and is an exciting adventure of service to the community in which the Lord has so graciously placed us. Year after year, it has also proven to be a great opportunity to raise money for funding student scholarships, providing needed classroom supplies, and supporting the education and instruction our students receive.
The 2024 PUCS Serve-a-thon was held on Friday, May 3rd and we raised a total of $69,000!
About the Serve-A-Thon
The purpose of The Great PUCS Serve-A-Thon is twofold:
Our students, staff and volunteers serve the community every year during this day-long service event. PUCS always incorporates picking up litter in Wilkinsburg, thereby preventing it from entering the Nine Mile Run Watershed.
In the past, we have collaborated with local organizations on service projects such as:
- Community Forge – Grounds Spring Cleaning – Rearrange tires, planting flowers, weeding garden beds, litter removal.
- Center for Civic Arts – Prepare community garden beds for Spring planting.
- Sleeping Octopus – Dead-heading planters that host micro ecosystems, litter removal from Borough compost.
- Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church – Fruit Pollinator Garden & Orchard weeding & planting.
- Foundation of Hope – Letter & card writing for female inmates.
- Upstream Pittsburgh – Mulching trees near PUCS; Litter removal at Linear Park, Rain Garden on South Ave., & Ferguson Playground.
- Women for a Healthy Environment – Air quality study.
- Civically – Planting flowers, Sorting donations, and food distribution at the Freestore
- Wilkinsburg Community Ministry – Clean and prep garden
“The 7th-grade class worked diligently, sorting clothing items for kids in foster care and assisting with preparations for their upcoming summer events. Thank you, PUCS students, for your hard work and dedication!” Kelly Hughes, Foster Love Project, 2024
Through the Serve-A-Thon, we raise much-needed funds for general school support and for our scholarship fund. While the Development Office does this excellently and year-round, this is the only opportunity that we really ALL get to rally behind PUCS and share our vision.
