BackPack Friends
Community Services Non Profits
Why pick this one
BackPack Friends provides weekend and holiday food backpacks to children at 25 schools across four North Carolina counties.
Best for
- Children needing nutritious food for weekends or school holidays
- School counselors identifying children needing discreet food assistance
- Donors supporting a 501(c)(3) program serving over 1,000 children’s backpacks weekly
- Volunteers packing or delivering food backpacks through participating schools
Look elsewhere if
- Adults seeking food assistance for themselves
- People needing immediate walk-in grocery distribution
- People outside the four counties served by the program
Specialties
- weekend meal and snack backpacks for children
- holiday-vacation food assistance for children
- school-based nutritional support
Certifications
- registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
What makes them different
- Delivers over 1,000 food backpacks each week
- Serves children at 25 schools
- Operates across Carteret, Craven, Onslow, and Jones counties
- Uses 100% donated food supplies
- Backpacks are packed by 100% volunteers
- Years in business
- 15
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 109 Seth Thomas Ln, Swansboro, NC 28584-8538
- Phone
- +18103485557
- Website
- http://backpackfriends.org/
- 1backpackfriends@gmail.com
Services
- children's food assistance
- nutritional meal and snack distribution
- school backpack food program
- volunteer packing and delivery