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A massive thank you to Rockland Bank and PSG Equity for their incredibly generous donations that allow us to continue helping over 1,000 kids every summer. An additional thank you to the Charles River School for donating filled backpacks and school supplies!
We are excited to announce that we have successfully delivered 1100 backpacks this summer! A huge thank you to the awesome kids from Quarry Road in Medfield who helped us to stuff all the backpacks this summer.
Thank you to our over 40 volunteers who helped us stuff the 1500 backpacks at Xaverian Brothers High School! We could not do it without you!
We want to thank everyone who helped us donate over 1500 backpacks to local kids in need this summer! This is the most ever in one summer! Additionally, we have surpassed 10,000 backpacks donated to date which is an amazing accomplishment that we could not have done without all of your help!
Thank you SO much to the Dropkick Murphys' Claddagh Fund as well as East Boston Savings Bank for their incredibly kind donations this year. They allow us to continue to help hundreds of children a year and make our dream a reality! Thank you to everyone who continues to support our mission!
We would like to thank all of our volunteers who came to help us stuff the backpacks at Xaverian this year! Without your help we truly would be unable to help so many children in need. We are thrilled to have donated over 1300 backpacks again this year, and are already excited about next summer!
We are back for another summer! We have already begun reaching out to agencies and hope to donate over 1300 backpacks again this summer! We will be holding our annual backpack stuffing event at Xaverian Brothers High School on August 7th. We always need volunteers so if you are interested in joining us please contact us.
This year we donated 1323 backpacks to kids in need, our most EVER in one summer!!!!! Thank you also to Goff Landscaping and the Dropkick Murphys' Claddagh Fund for their generous contributions.
Thank you to all of our amazing volunteers who came to help us stuff backpacks at Xaverian. We completed the stuffing in our fastest time ever!!!
We are back for another summer of Backpacks for New Beginnings! We have already placed an order for the backpacks, and are excited to purchase school supplies. This year we will be holding our annual backpack stuffing event at Xaverian on August 7th. Please contact us if you are interested in helping.
We have finished our first round of backpack deliveries to the Department of Children and Families, Italian Home for Children, and Family Services of Greater Boston. We are excited to finish the rest of our deliveries this week.
Thank you to all of our volunteers for coming to stuff over 1,250 backpacks, and thank you to Xaverian for graciously allowing us to use the school to host the event. It is always amazing to see so many of our friends and family take time out of their summer to help us out!
We have bought nearly 1,300 backpacks as well as all of the school supplies. We are eagerly awaiting the backpack stuffing event next week at Xaverian. We hope to see you there!
We would like to thank everyone at our school, Xaverian Brothers, for helping us raise money during the Dress Down Day! We raised $1,000 which is an enormous help to our 2016 campaign. Go Hawks!
We are thrilled to announce that we have already donated over 1000 backpacks this summers thanks to so many kind contributions! We still have more to donate and are looking forward to breaking our record of 1011 backpacks in one summer! Thanks again for your continued support!
Today we raised monday outside of Roche Bros. in West Roxbury. With lots of help from our sister Violet we were able to raise over $550! We would also like to thank our corporate donors, Goff Landscaping, Hennigan Insurance, and Vogt Realty, for their generous contributions. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far this summer!
Fundraising has officially begun for the 2015 Backpack Drive! Our goal for this summer is to donate over 1000 new backpacks to local children in need. Thank you in advance for your donations. We would not be able to help so many kids without your generosity!
Thank you for coming to visit our new website! During the summer we will using this page to provide updates on our progress.
We are thrilled that for the first time in our charity's history we have donated over 1,000 backpacks in a single summer! Thank you to everyone who helped this year especially Xaverian Brothers High School, Mt. Washington Bank, Walmart, Top It Off, and all of our volunteers! |
Making the difference in the life of a child, one backpack at a time. |