In January 2018, star quarterback Lamar Jackson donated $25,000 to Blessings in a Backpack. He collected the money during a series of autograph appearances at Planet Fitness.
The Blessings in a Backpack Louisville Chapter is featured by Today's Woman Magazine as one of ten organizations that are gifts to the local community.
Doctors for Healthy Communities dropped by Camp Taylor Elementary School to present a donation to Blessings in a Backpack. The gift will help provide hunger-free weekends for 75 kids this
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, Miss Puerto Rice, and 5th grade volunteers from Hawthorne Elementary School packed 100 bags of weekend on National Blessings in a Backpack Day.
Matt Blanton is helping kids who grew up like he did. Inspired by his own childhood, Matt is leading his team's efforts at KFC to feed kids on the weekends.
During National Blessings in a Backpack Week, employees from KFC and Henny Penny packed 1,500 bags of food that was distributed to various schools throughout Jefferson County.
Thornton's donated $2,500 to the Blessings in a Backpack program at Borden Elementary School during the grand opening of its very first truck stop in Memphis, Ind.