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Cradles to Crayons® (C2C®) is a non-profit organization that provides free clothes and other basic needs such as shoes, diapers, coats, and backpacks with school supplies to children living in homeless, poverty, and low-income situations for free. Cradles to Crayons began with its first Giving Factory® warehouse in Quincy, Massachusetts, in ...
In 2008, Active Minds held the first Send Silence Packing display at the National Mall in Washington DC. [9] The display consists of 1,000 backpacks laid on the ground in a public space, with personal stories attached. [10] These backpacks represent the lives of the over 1,000 college students that are lost to suicide each year. [11]
The program is also available during the summer, when children don't have access to the free meals they might receive at school. The Backpack Program partners with schools and community centers to distribute bags packed with a weekend's supply of food. These bags are given to children once a week with the goal of helping their entire family.
Its program Operation School Bell provides K-5 students with one pair of sneakers, two tops, five pairs of socks, underwear, a backpack, school supplies, a hygiene kit, a hoodie, one or two books ...
Packing BackSnacks, which are backpacks filled with nutritious, child-friendly food for children in elementary and middle schools. The volunteer slots are all filled for now, but you can add your ...
Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, is hosting a backpack drive, handing out free backpacks and school supplies to elementary and middle school students on Aug. 12.
Blessings in a Backpack is a non-profit organization that feeds school children in the United States who currently are fed during the week on the federally funded Free and Reduced Meal Program and are at risk of going hungry on the weekends. Its mission is to mobilize communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for ...
Dec. 22—The Food for Backpacks program in Albert Lea received a $25,000 donation Thursday from Mayo Clinic Health System as part of an effort by the health system to invest $900,000 in local ...