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Ranney Community Comes Together to Contribute Meaningfully

Ranney’s close-knit community works together year after year to make meaningful contributions to society—a key component of our school’s mission statement. Through our 50-plus clubs, activities, and honor societies, as well as our service-integrated curricula and our school-wide parent support, students in all divisions are developing positive and proactive citizenship and leadership skills.

Just this fall, Ranney students and families conducted a Halloween Costume Drive, hosted a Blood Drive for the Central Jersey Blood Center, donated vegetables from our campus garden to benefit the Plant a Row for the Hungry project for Lunch Break, and participated in walks for Making Strides against Breast Cancer and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund. And on Sunday Nov. 13 is the I Care I Cure triathlon.

In addition to individual community service projects, our youngest Ranney Panthers in the Lower School are participating in a year-long service theme to learn about water resources around the world in connection with the humanitarian organization Waves for Water. In the spring, Middle School students will be studying water with regard to global resources, economics, access, and more. They will be researching potential solutions as part their 2016-17 Entrepreneurial Challenge theme. In the Upper School, our Sophomore Service group has been spending time reaching out to the internal and external community to impact positive change and to act as mentors in leadership. This week, for example, they helped Kindergartners plant tulip bulbs in the campus garden (photos). Our alums remain engaged in contributing meaningfully to society as well. The Class of 2015’s Kristen Guyler, for instance, is leading a campaign with The Borgen Project, which works to fight global poverty. 

These are just a few examples of our students and families in action. This month, we invite the entire Ranney community to join together in collecting items for our school-wide food drive benefitting Lunch Break, a local nonprofit service provider. Non-perishable items can be sent in through November 16.

Says Ryan Lubin who is helping to organize the drive, “As a junior, I have grown up participating in community service activities in and out of Ranney.…. This year, juniors Rylan Foy, Ankur Govil, Nicole Goldwert, and I have the opportunity to run the Thanksgiving food drive for Lunch Break, giving families the opportunity to have a Thanksgiving dinner that they may not have been able to have." (Update: our school communited donated 6,850 pounds of food to Lunch Break on Nov. 18!)

Looking ahead, Ranney invites students, parents, grandparents, faculty, and alums to check our new Volunteer & Service webpage often for the latest and upcoming service projects. If you are involved in a service project outside of the Ranney community but would like to invite Ranney students and staff to participate, please share the details on our online form. You can also use the form to submit ideas for a future service projects.

Finally, parents, grandparents, and alums are invited to volunteer on campus through our Panther Volunteer Program. Volunteers are always needed to help in our garden, library, arts and athletic programs, and more. Sign up today.
 
Adds parent volunteer Pamela Smith (Hazel ’22), “Our school has a great diversity of backgrounds and talents. When we combine our interests, our time, and our enthusiasm, we can help create amazing experiences for our students, all while contributing to the sense of community that makes Ranney special.” 
 
 
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Ranney School

235 Hope Road
Tinton Falls, NJ 07724
Tel. 732.542.4777
Our mission is to know and value every child, nurturing intellectual curiosity and confidence, and inspiring students to lead honorably, think creatively, and contribute meaningfully to society. 

We envision Ranney School as a nurturing learning community, in which families, faculty, alumni, and all of Ranney’s constituents collaborate to know and value every child, foster individual talents, sustain powerful connections between children and adults, and graduate resilient, globally-minded citizens.