Turn dry-cleaning dollars into donations . . .

Now each time you pick up that dry cleaning, you can drop off a donation for the school of your choice.

How it works

When you visit any Prestige Cleaners location just write the name of the school you wish to support on the back of your cleaning receipt and drop it in the Project Classroom box. At the end of the year Prestige Cleaners will donate a percentage of retail sales to those schools.

For more information contact Scott Bacon (594-1909) or Mary Kerr (594-1928) in the Knox County Schools Public Affairs Office.

Prestige Cleaners launches fund raising program for KCS

	Inskip second graders Kelvin Foster, Blake Millines, Caitlyn Stevens, and Bryce Keck demonstrate how easy it is to deposit Prestige receipts into the Project Classroom boxes that will be located at all Prestiege Cleaners  locations.

January 18, 2007:
In a kickoff ceremony at Inskip Elementary School Prestige Cleaners and Knox County Schools announced a fundraising program that could garner as much as $30,000-$40,000 annually for area K-12 schools. 

Under Project Classroom Prestige will donate a percentage of retail sales revenue to individual Knox County schools every year.  All eight Prestige locations in Knox County will participate in the program.

“This will be a year-round program,” said Eddie Mannis, President of Prestige Cleaners. “All our customers need to do is write the name of the school they want to support on the back of their receipts when they pick up their cleaning, and drop the receipt in the display boxes that will be in all of our Knox County stores.”

Prestige will donate a portion of the sales total to the schools the customers specify.   In addition, Prestige has worked with the school system to identify several schools that will receive a portion of undesignated funds should customers choose not to identify a particular school.  Prestige will present individual checks to the schools annually, and there will be no restrictions on how these funds may be used. 

“We at Prestige believe in giving back to the community in which we live,” said Mannis.  “We also feel strongly that supporting education is an ongoing responsibility of the business community.  But we wanted to design a program that would streamline our donations and make a difference to our customers by allowing them to choose where the money goes.”

“Education must be a top priority for any community,” said Dr. Charles Lindsey, superintendent of Knox County Schools.  “The support of businesses such as Prestige Cleaners is critical to ensuring that here in Knox County we are able to provide the best possible educational opportunities for our young people who will be the community leaders of the future.” 

 Prestige is one of the largest independently owned drycleaners in the country.  It opened in l985 with three employees and one store.  The company now has over l60 employees, 8 stores in Knoxville and one in Oak Ridge.  Its processing facility and corporate offices are located in Powell.