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Staples Teams Up with City Year to Make Graduation Happen in Classrooms Across the CountryStaples (News - Alert) (NASDAQ: SPLS) and national service organization City Year AmeriCorps have teamed up to provide high-need classrooms with the tools and resources necessary to make graduation happen for students across the country. Staples will match 15 percent of the face value of Staples brand gift card purchases up to $125,000 and donate the proceeds to City Year. The program begins in Staples' stores and on Staples.com from now thru May 30. The Staples' gift card match donation is one part of Staples' commitment to City Year, an education-focused organization dedicated to helping students and schools succeed. For more information on the City Year gift card match, please visit: http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/giftcards/index.html. In addition, this spring Staples will deliver $40,000 of essential school supplies to 262 City Year classrooms across the country as part of its Classroom in a Box (News - Alert) initiative. The Classroom in a Box includes Staples brand products such as paper, markers, notebooks, notecards, glue sticks and more. "Through our commitment to City Year with the Staples gift card match donations and our Classroom in a Box program, we are thrilled to be providing necessary school supplies and tools to help the organization's important mission of making graduation happen," said Frank Bifulco, executive vice president global marketing, Staples. "We are proud to work with City Year and supply the resources to help students achieve academic and future success." "We are grateful for Staples investment in City Year and its dedication to help increase high school graduation rates," said Chris Mann City Year Vice President Corporate Partnerships. "Every year, almost 800,000 students drop out of school. We know that students who graduate high school are on a path to greater success. We are grateful to Staples for providing much needed tools and supplies to help make this a reality in the schools our passionate team members serve." Locations throughout the country that will receive the "Classroom in a Box" include: Baton Rouge, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, New Hampshire, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Rhode Island, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Jose/Silicon Valley, Seattle, Tulsa and Washington, D.C. A total of 262 schools and 170,000 students will be directly impacted by the donations.
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