CENA

Caring Educators Nourishing All

CENA 2024 : A Toy. A Smile. A Difference

CENA 2025 : A Toy. A Smile. A Difference.

Give yourself a gift this holiday season! For many of us, sharing with others by bringing joy to children and their families is a meaningful way to celebrate the holidays. For our families in Santa Ana, having the ability to provide toys for children and food for the family remains a challenge. For over 30 years, the Santa Ana community, Santa Ana Unified School District employees and the Santa Ana Public Schools Foundation have rallied in support of our Santa Ana families for the holidays through CENA – Caring Educators Nourishing All. Due to diminished community resources, the CENA effort has had to raise significant funds in order to purchase toys and meal vouchers. But we have not been deterred! With your help and generosity we will once again be able to provide a holiday box to our families. Our goal is to collect toys and funds in order to purchase and distribute 10,000 toys and 4,000 grocery cards.

What you can do:

1) Contribute to the CENA Fund through the Santa Ana Public Schools Foundation
2) Collect new toys to be distributed
3) Volunteer to be a Santa Shopper by helping to purchase toys
4) Volunteer to be a Santa’s helper by preparing holiday toy baskets marked with
each child’s family name

Your generous support is both humbling and inspiring to all of us as we seek to provide A Toy, A Meal, and a Smile to members of our community here in Santa Ana.

Toy Collection Drive: Stuff-A-Bus

Join us in spreading holiday cheer at the Stuff-A-Bus Toy Collection Drive, proudly hosted by the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD), the Santa Ana Public Schools Foundation, and the SAUSD School Police.

This heartwarming event brings our community together to collect new, unwrapped toys for local students and families in need. Every donation makes a difference and helps brighten the season for children across Santa Ana.

CENA – Caring Educators Nourishing All

The Employees of the Santa Ana Unified School District have a 30 year Holiday tradition of providing a toy, book and a meal to our students in most need.

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