In our FY22 Annual Report, you'll read stories of charitable partners and donors who helped Blessings in a Backpack

provide over 3.1 million hunger-free weekends for children nationwide. Thank you from the bottom of our

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Empowering Individuals and Communities

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backpacks!

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Your support will raise awareness for our mission — providing weekend food for ONE in EIGHT children in

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America who might otherwise go hungry.

Who will feed the kids this weekend?

90,000 kids in Northeast Florida eat food at school during the week

but struggle with access to food on the weekends. How can you help?

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Local Give Back Opportunities

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First Coast Blessings in a Backpack.

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Nemours Children’s Health Tees Up support for Blessings in a Backpack at THE PLAYERS Championship with the Jim & Tabitha Furyk Foundation

Nemours sponsored the ‘Kids Zone’ at THE PLAYERS Championship this year, and they hosted a packing event for Blessings in a Backpack! Jim and Tabitha Furyk, longtime Blessings supporters, and R. Lawrence Moss, MD, the president and CEO of Nemours, stopped by to pack food for kids.

AICVB Helps Kids at Hilliard Elementary

The Amelia Island Convention & Visitors Bureau, in partnership with the Amelia Island Tourist Development Council, the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl and the First Coast Blessings in a Backpack joined together Feb. 16…

Notre Dame Players Fill Backpacks With Food for Children Ahead of Gator Bowl

Ahead of the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, the Fighting Irish football team helped fight weekend hunger for hundreds of children in Northeast Florida living with food insecurity.