For many years, the PTO at Charles F. Patton Middle School in Kennett Square, Pa., has organized a bike drive to benefit needy kids during the winter holidays. The annual project collects, refurbishes, and distributes more than 200 bikes to children from low-income families each year—most of them from the community at large, not Patton students. What’s more, over time the event has grown to include multiple community groups and to provide food, toys, and winter coats, as well.
