Sentences with phrase «backpack food programs»

We face issues similar to this in our weekend backpack food programs.

Initiatives include the Backpack Food Program where the foundation partners with local food banks and schools to provide knapsacks filled with nutritious, easy - to - prepare, nonperishable food for students who are at risk for hunger when free or - reduced price school lunches are unavailable.

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Feeding South Florida sponsors a Backpack Program, delivering food to feed those children who don't have enough to eat between Friday's school lunch and Monday's school breakfast.

Backpack Program, which sends fresh produce, healthy snacks and nutritious foods home with food - insecure public schoolchildren (kids whose main meals are eaten only when they're at school).

At Yankton, much of the focus is on reaching underserved populations, so in addition to lunch they operate a backpack program to send food home with kids for the weekend.

These signs of hunger inspired her to apply for the Feeding America Backpack Program with the help of New Haven Food Services Director, Tim Cipriano.

But teens are also often overlooked by many charitable anti-hunger efforts, such as weekend backpack programs that send home food with elementary - aged children.

Do you similarly discount the observations of Lisa Scarpinato, who saw childhood hunger in her own city and created a program to supply needy children on Fridays with backpacks food to get them through the weekend?

CRF provides funding for the Backpack Buddies program - in partnership with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and St. Michael's Episcopal Church - so that during the school year, weekly backpacks filled with balanced meals are sent home to students and their families who are at risk of hunger every Friday

She makes a difference in the Greater Boise community as well, volunteering at the food bank for the «backpack program,» helping sort donated product and assisting the local chapter to make blankets and help baskets for local charities.

Teaming up with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, the Rock on Café program runs a «Week of Caring» to collect food donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal progrFood Bank of the Southern Tier, the Rock on Café program runs a «Week of Caring» to collect food donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal prprogram runs a «Week of Caring» to collect food donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal progrfood donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal progrFood Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal prProgram, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal programs.

Teacher Feature Her eyes open to a family that had no food, one teacher was prompted to come to the aid of kids in need through a unique program she calls the «Backpack Buddy Club.»

Murphy helped start the school's Backpack Buddies program, which gives bags of food to students who might be going home to bare pantries, and helps prepare bags for 120 students every week.

Across America, volunteer programs fill school backpacks with food on Fridays, sometimes prompting fights as children from hungry households try to help their parents out by stealing calories.

Iandoli and Edens is collecting non-perishable food for the Backpack Program.