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We hope you will join us in our mission on Monday, September 23, at Exmoor Country Club for the 2024 Blessings in a Backpack Classic. Enjoy an exceptional day of golf, tennis, and fun as we raise money to feed kids across Chicagoland.Blessings in a Backpack is a national organization made up of seven regional chapters and more than 1,000 volunteer-driven programs. Our mission is simple: we provide food on the weekends for school-aged children who might otherwise go hungry.
The Chicago Chapter of Blessings in a Backpack works to prevent childhood hunger on the weekends across Chicagoland. Nearly 300,000 kids living in Chicagoland are food insecure. One in seven kids receives subsidized meals during the week but is without affordable, healthy food on Saturday and Sunday. We close this gap by providing nutritionally balanced foods, sent home in kids' backpacks every Friday. As a result, these kids have fewer health problems, longer attention spans, and perform better in school.
During the 2022/23 school year, the Chicago Chapter distributed 158,000 bags of ready-to-eat food to almost 6,000 school-aged children at 51 program locations across Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties. Our goal this school year is to feed 7,000 kids each weekend.
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700 Vine Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035-2049, United States
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