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Blessings in a Backpack


Mission:

Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry.

Fast Facts:

• Founded in 2008 in Kentucky when a teacher observed that children at her school, who participated in the free or reduced meal program, were returning to school on Mondays tired, hungry and not ready to learn.

• Blessings in a Backpack serves 87,300 children in 1092 schools in 45 states. The North Atlanta office serves 196 children in 5 Roswell Schools and 1 Cobb County school.

• It takes as little as $100 to feed an elementary school child in the Blessings in a Backpack program for an entire 38-week school year.

• More than 90,000 students in Fulton & Cobb Counties will leave school uncertain if they will have food to eat over the weekend.

• 100% of money raised to fund a school goes directly to feeding the children.

• Blessings in a Backpack has partnered to develop a multi-year national evaluation project that measures program impact. In the first year, the program reported the following impacts:

o 59% find it is easier to learn at school.

o 60% do not get in trouble as much.

o 78% feel cared for by their community.

o 71% feel they are helping their family.

o 60% report that their school attendance is better.

Find out more:

www.blessingsinabackpack.org


Posted by Tina Houck
August 11, 2020

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