The chapter will now be serving 6,500 children every weekend. The expansion comes just in time as the need has grown exponentially since Hurricane Ian.
The Blessings in a Backpack SWFL Chapter, along with its community partners, have been working together to find new ways to distribute food, reaching 9,600 local kids in need since
The North Florida Region has taken Sysco’s Volunteer Challenge to heart and made a lasting impact to ensure school-aged children in their communities don’t go hungry over the summer. Sales
Blessings in a Backpack has received a $20,000 donation from Suncoast Credit Union that will help provide weekend meals for students at Tice Elementary School in Fort Myers, Florida.
Blessings has until August 27 at 11:59 p.m. ET to rally votes. On September 29, the top 40 vote-receiving causes will be announced and a $25,000 grant will be awarded
The inaugural ‘Brews for Blessings’ family-fun block party at Millennial Brewing Company in downtown Fort Myers raised $20,000 to support Blessings in a Backpack’s mission of feeding school children on
In April, No Kid Hungry made a generous donation of $100,000, which was used to provide 25,000 bags of food for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year to three
The donations of a generous community have enabled the Blessings in a Backpack Southwest Florida Chapter to feed an additional 700 children since August, increasing the number of total children