Donate

Since we are able to purchase food at a reduced rate, your donation of just $100.00 will provide a backpack to one child each weekend for an entire school year! All money donated is tax deductible.

Click the link to donate using Canada Helps.org: 100% of all donations go directly to school leaders for weekly food purchases or program development. All donations will receive a tax-deductible receipt.
Or send a donation directly:

Barry Segal
Ogilvy Renault
Suite 3800
Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower
200 Bay Street, P.O. Box 84
Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2Z4

Donate Backpacks

If you are a manufacturer, distributor or retailer of backpacks and would like to donate new or unsold backpacks to Blessings in a Backpack Canada, contact us. We will help you with the necessary logistics of getting your donation to the right people that help feed our children every weekend.

Ship all backpack donations to:

Pennant Media Group
480 Adelaide West
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1T2

Fundraising

If you would like to help raise money for Blessings in a Backpack, even if you don’t have a program in your area- you can assist with fundraising! Whether you are a Girl Scout/Boy Scout Troop, Cheerleading or Football team, Local Community Club or Church Group, collecting funds or backpacks at your next event is easy and extremely valuable to the children in our program. Contact us today to help!

Hold a Backpack Drive

We Need New or Gently Used Backpacks! Blessings in a Backpack provides all new school programs with the backpacks kids need to carry their weekend supply of food home. Blessings in a Backpack is fortunate to have volunteers who donate backpacks, but we always need more to meet growing demand. Backpack drives are a great opportunity for anybody and everybody to pitch in and do their part to feed hungry school children and improve their early academic growth. Contact us if you’re interested in holding a backpack drive.

Parents, Students and Teachers

Parents, students of all ages and teacher groups across the nation often ask, How Can We Help! Hold a backpack drive in your school. Since many people replace their backpacks on a yearly basis, we’re betting that there are many gently-used backpacks taking up closet space that people would be happy to donate. Extra credit, tickets to school events, and even get out of detention free cards can be used as incentives for people to donate their unused backpacks. Put on your thinking caps and come up with your own creative way to raise backpacks. All you need is permission from the principal and a few posters to get the ball rolling! Contact us today to get started.

Other Community Supporters

If you’re not connected to a school, there are many other ways to help us raise backpacks. Please consider one of the following, or use your own method:

  • Call sporting goods stores to see if they would like to donate backpacks they might have in stock or on clearance.
  • Check with local companies who might have extra backpacks on hand from old employee incentive programs. Or ask them to start an incentive (i.e. “Jeans Day) for people who donate backpacks.
  • Ask local retailers to offer discounts to people who bring in backpacks.
  • Contact sponsors of widely-attended local events to see if they’ll offer free or discounted admission to people who donate backpacks.
  • Have an event or party and ask attendees to bring backpacks as an entry fee. We often have donations from kind supporters who asked for backpacks in lieu of gifts at their birthday parties.

There are no wrong answers when it comes to helping us raise backpacks to feed children.