Backpack t-shirt.

So, you want to help feed kids this Giving Tuesday? Create a Facebook fundraiser to provide weekend

food for kids who might otherwise go hungry. Raise $300 or more and receive a free Blessings in a

Click here for all ways to get involved.

Giving Tuesday is November 29

Take pictures with a cut-out character in December. Your support will raise awareness for our mission — providing

weekend food for ONE in EIGHT children in America who might otherwise go hungry.

Click here to get started.

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Louisville Impact Report 2020/21 School Year

As more and more families experienced food insecurity because of rising food costs and inflation, we continued to

feed kids because of you. With your support, our chapter provided more than 248,100 hunger-free weekends.

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Our impact during the 2021-2022 school year

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Local Give Back Opportunities

Consider the following ways to get involved with Blessings in a Backpack

and support local businesses that benefit the Louisville Chapter.

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Blessings Started Right Here in Louisville

Blessings in a Backpack is feeding more than

But did you know it began in Louisville?

87,000 kids across America every weekend.

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Birthday girl, family donates food to Blessings in a Backpack

Her mom said Ellie loves to help in the kitchen so they made her birthday “food-themed” and asked anyone who came to the party to bring a donation for hungry kids.

Racing Louisville FC partners with Blessings in a Backpack to ensure Louisville kids don’t go hungry

Racing Louisville athletes helped pack bags of weekend food for 80 students attending Hawthorne Elementary. The partnership was crafted through the National Women’s Soccer League Nationwide Contest, where each partner organization or team receives a grant to support a local nonprofit and serves as the focus of a team-led service project

2022 PGA Championship Winner Justin Thomas funds an entire year of weekend meals for an elementary school in his hometown

PGA TOUR golfer Justin Thomas and his organization, the Justin Thomas Foundation, donated funds to provide Blessings in a Backpack for every child at Camp Taylor Elementary in Louisville, Kentucky.