What We Do
Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for school-aged children across America who might otherwise go hungry.
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$150 can help us feed a child every weekend of the school year.
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How It Works
Blessings in a Backpack offers flexible program models built on scalable sustainability that any community in America can use to end weekend hunger for its kids. Through our network of over 1,200 program locations, we leverage our collective experience to ensure effective and efficient programming. With your help, we can end weekend hunger in our community.
In Louisville, we proudly delivered 233,500 hunger-free weekends to 6,146 kids in 48 JCPS programs this past school year.
Volunteer Appreciation Week is April 21–27
Blessings in a Backpack celebrates its volunteers—whose passion and commitment to feeding the kids in local communities are what drives our mission.
From Louisville to Nationwide
Blessings in a Backpack is providing millions of hunger-free weekends for children across America every school year. But did you know it started here in Louisville?
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