“We wanted to make the event for Clemson’s students, by Clemson’s students, and about Clemson’s students. Tanner’s Totes was the obvious choice for us.” The “We” in this quote refers to Dr. Adam Rapp and the Professional Selling and Sport Plus Sport Marketing Group. It's fair to say that adding life experiences to the classroom curriculum is the definition of a good teacher.
Since his Story was Told by ESPN, Smith’s Non-Profit has Exceeded $20,000 in Donations
By Will Vandervort
It’s organized chaos. That’s the best way Tanner Smith can describe what the basement at his parents’ Alpharetta, GA home looks like these days. Smith’s non-profit organization, Tanner’s Totes, has overtaken what was once a large game room for he and his friends, since ESPN.com’s Dana O’Neil told the world about his smile-making tote bags in February of 2009.
From childhood wish to lasting legacy, Smith's charity specializes in smiles
By Dana O'Neil - ESPN.com
CLEMSON, S.C. -- It was a typically frantic Monday morning and, hurrying to get out the door, Kathy Smith started to scratch her name on her son's homework assignment when she stopped to read what he had written.
The fourth-grade creative assignment was pretty straightforward: If I Had Three Wishes.
Griffey and the tote bags in the background represent two of the three wishes made by a 9-year-old Tanner Smith.
Kathy smiled as she read the first item on her son's bucket list: a golden retriever. Ever since he met a slobbering canine friend across the street, Tanner had been hounding his parents for a puppy. But with the holidays closing in, his parents already had warned him: Don't bother asking Santa for a dog.
His second wish was to play professional basketball, hardly a surprise for a young jock like Tanner, who spent his time shuffling between the football fields, baseball diamonds and basketball courts in his Alpharetta, Ga., community.
HGTV's 'Deserving Design' treats helpful teen to makeover
By KATIE LESLIE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/08/08
Alpharetta — Let other teens snooze on Saturday mornings. Tanner Smith has better things to do.
Things so good that a national TV show has taken notice of the 18-year-old's extracurriculars; and no, not his basketball heroics taking him to Clemson on a scholarship this fall.
Tanner Smith of Alpharetta works in his cheery upstairs room, revamped by Atlanta-based designer Vern Yip. The 18-year-old created and runs Tanner's Totes, a nonprofit that gives canvas bags full of goodies to kids undergoing cancer treatments.
4th Graders in Portland, ME Elevate Fund-Raising to New Heights
The shoppers! Click to see a larger image.
When Mrs. Deb Fenton contacted Tanner’s Totes and said her fourth graders, from Lyseth Elementary School in Portland, ME, were going to raise over $1200 for Tanner’sTotes, we were very excited and optimistic in a careful way. That’s a bunch of money for any group to raise! But Deb knew that with the help of Mrs. Whittum & Mrs. Gavitt’sstudents, those little 10 year olds would work until their goals were met.
“We wanted to make the event for Clemson’s students, by Clemson’s students, and about Clemson’s students. Tanner’s Totes was the obvious choice for us.” The “We” in this quote refers to Dr. Adam Rapp and the Professional Selling and Sport Plus Sport Marketing Group. It's fair to say that adding life experiences to the classroom curriculum is the definition of a good teacher.
Since his Story was Told by ESPN, Smith’s Non-Profit has Exceeded $20,000 in Donations
By KATIE LESLIE
