Mother's Day Gift Opportunity Get started During May, donate $25 or more in honor of an important woman in your life, and we will gift her an ALEX AND ANI bangle. Mother's Day Gift Opportunity Vice President Kamala Harris in a Backpack VP Harris Highlights the Work of Blessings In an interview with USA Today, Vice President Kamala Harris highlights Blessings First Coast partner Duval County School Watch the Interview District and our work at Blessings in a Backpack. Frederick Pop Up Packing Event At a pop-up food packing event outside the Blessings Frederick office in Maryland, volunteers packed bags in person for the first time in quite a while. Read about the happy reunion. reunite volunteers Pop-up outdoor events help feed hungry kids, First Coast Kids with Food Get started! Volunteer to Feed Hungry Kids Consider the following ways to get involved with Blessings in a Backpack and ensure hunger-free weekends for food-insecure kids in your community. Kate and Justin with Kids Orlando Chapter This generous donation will immediately feed 1,000 more children in the Orlando area and help Learn more. enhance the food bags distributed. The Kate & Justin Rose Foundation Donates $1 Million to Blessings Boy holding up a bag of food Who will feed the kids when schools are closed? At Blessings in a Backpack, we often ask, "Who will feed the kids this weekend?" But the COVID-19 emergency has caused us Blessings' Response to COVID-19 to expand our programs from feeding kids on only the weekends, to now serving kids while schools are closed.

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We're feeding the kids this weekend!

88900 kids in 46 states and Washington, D.C.

3000000
Hunger-free weekends
17305
Volunteers
13000
Donors
1092
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Why Get Involved?

How To Help?

DONATE
For $130 you can help us feed a child every weekend of the school year.
FUNDRAISE
Organize a Facebook fundraiser to feed the kids in your community.
GET INVOLVED
Volunteer your time or talent to support a local Blessings program.
KEEP IN TOUCH
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OUR PARTNERS

We would like to give many thanks to our National Partners listed below, without which this program would not be possible.

  • Vera Bradley
  • Kate and Justin Rose Foundation
  • Fiddlesticks
  • Cigna
  • Community Foundation of Greater Rochester
  • Kentucky Fried Chicken
  • Kingmade Jerky
  • KKW Fragrance
  • New Albany Floyd County Education Foundation
  • No Kid Hungry
  • Related Affordable Foundation
  • Together Rising
  • United Way of Frederick County
  • Albertsons Companies Nourishing Neighbors
  • Constellation Brands
  • CVC
  • Delta Pilots Charitable Fund
  • Giant
  • Humorology Road Less Traveled
  • Anthem Foundation

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