Blessings in a Backpack SWFL introduces a way for the business community to get more involved.
This coming year, when school dismisses on Friday, 15.8 Million children will leave their classroom, uncertain whether they will have enough food to eat that weekend.
We will. Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry. Each Friday of the school year, thousands of volunteers across the country are sending home a bag of food with children who face hunger that weekend.
Florida is #4 in the United States for childhood hunger.
Blessings in a Backpack of Southwest Florida is currently feeding close to 3000 children every weekend. That averages to almost 468,000 meals this school year! And yet our need in this community is even more!
What your donation does is feed one child for the entire school year! $100.00 a child will feed one child for an entire school year two breakfast, two lunches and snacks and drinks every weekend! All donations stay here in our area and feed our local children!
We have many schools in Lee and Collier on our wait list to feed additional students, we need your help!
This new year, Blessings in a Backpack of Southwest Florida has created a Business Giving Levels in which a local business can support our local children in our local Title 1 schools! If your company or if you know of a company that would love to support our children, please read the attached information and beginning supporting many of our own local students who come to school hungry!
Please know that we have many schools waiting to expand their existing Blessings programs and new schools waiting for funding because of their students need for our program.
Please help!
Please feel free to reach out to me to learn more about our organization and how you or business can help sponsor feeding our local children right here in Southwest Florida.
No child should have to face the weekend
– 65 hours – not knowing when he or she will eat next.
With Blessings in a Backpack, as little as $2.64 provides a hunger-free weekend to a child.
Give today
Please check our Business Giving Levels
Blessings in a Backpack of Southwest Florida
Business Giving Levels
School is in session, over 60,000 elementary students in Lee and Collier counties receive free breakfast and lunch. But what do they all eat over the weekend?
This is where Blessings in a Backpack of Southwest Florida comes in. Every Friday we are able to send home to over 3,000 students’ breakfast and lunch and snack food to get them through the weekend. That way, on Monday they return to school ready to learn and not with empty bellies.
Forced to stretch their budgets to the very max, many families make costly sacrifices, like going without food. We have thousands of more students waiting for our services and we need your help!
$100.00 Feeds one child four meals every weekend for 38 weeks! That is over 152 meals for the entire school year! We need more businesses in our area to help support our growing need of feeding an additional 1,000 more children this year.
There are several ways you can help us feed more children right here in our own backyard!
We have created four levels of annual giving for our business community. With your donation you will also receive the following:
Bronze Giving Level- $1,000.00
· Feeds 10 children this school year.
· Your Company Logo on Blessings in Backpack SWFL website
Silver Giving Level- $5,000.00
· Feeds 50 children this school year.
· Your company Logo on our website
· 2 Tickets to our VIP Event- Baseball for Blessings” March 11, 2017 Experience the Minnesota Twins vs Boston Red Sox Game from the Sky Deck of Twins Stadium.
- Gold Giving Level- $10,000.00- $49,000.00
- · Feeds 100 plus children this school year.
- · Your company Logo on our website and all printed materials locally.
- · Your choice of school or area where your contribution feeds local children.
- · Sponsor status of our VIP Event “Baseball for Blessings” March 11, 2017 Minnesota Twins vs Boston Red Sox at the Sky Deck of Twins stadium.
- · 10 plus tickets to the VIP Event.
Platinum Level Giving- $50,000 plus
- · This level will feed 500 plus children this school year.
- · Your company Logo on our website and all printed materials locally.
- · Your choice of school or area where your contribution feeds local children.
- · Title Sponsor of annual VIP Event “Baseball for Blessings” March 11, 2017 Minnesota Twins vs Boston Red Sox at the Sky Deck of Twins Stadium.
- · 20 plus tickets to the VIP event game.
- · Title Sponsor banner at event
- Company shout out during the game.
To Give:
Blessings in a Backpack Southwest FL
P.O. Box 61402
Fort Myers, FL 33906
Website- https://Blessingsinswfl.org
Email- [email protected]
Telephone- 239410-9592