Thankful for You
Open House

Join us for this drop-in event on
Tuesday, November 19th between 4-6pm
as a thank you for your support through
volunteering, donating and serving 
our Backpack Buddies students in the schools.

96 Werz Industrial Blvd., Newnan, 30263

Giving Tuesday is coming up on December 3rd and we are setting a goal of collecting $10,000 to help us feed hungry children in our county.

If you feel led to help us reach our goal and make an end of the year donation, visit give page to make a donation.

All donations are tax-deductible and will go towards purchasing food for our 1,400+ students that receive weekend bags.

Thank you in advance for helping us reach our goal!

Volunteer Opportunities - Fall 2024

Evening Packing Dates: We will have packing nights every so often for the next few months. Please use the EVENING PACK button below to sign up and read about the specific instructions for the evenings regarding groups and children volunteering.

Break Bag Delivery Drivers: The week before each school break (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter & Spring Breaks) we need delivery drivers to help take our Break Bags to the schools. These are larger reusable grocery bags that we send out to each school in the county. During these weeks we try to give our regular delivery drivers a break and seek more volunteers. If you are interested in helping deliver these bags, please click the BREAK BAG DELIVERY button below for more information.

Thursday Morning Packing Crew: We would love to have a regular small group of volunteers who could come in on the 1st Thursday of every month to help us unload, set up and reload bins from 10-11am. If you have a small group of 5-10 that would like to commit to helping us in this way, please email Nicole McNutt at nmcnutt.bpb@gmail.com

Sub Drivers: Each week, we have some of our regular delivery drivers out for various reasons (sickness, vacation, etc.) and we are always looking for people to deliver bags to these schools. If you would like to be added to our sub driver GroupMe page, please email Nicole at nmcnutt.bpb@gmail.com to be added. Each week we will send out the need on the GroupMe page and you can volunteer for a specific school that is listed when you are available.

If you have any questions regarding volunteer times, please reach out to Nicole at nmcnutt.bpb@gmail.com  

Donations Always Needed

Backpack Buddies is constantly updating our food needs. At this time the food list below has the items listed that we need most. We are sending out over 1,400 bags each week. If you are able to shop for us during this time, that is greatly appreciated but a monetary donation also can help us go further with our mission “because hunger doesn’t take the weekend off.” We are so grateful for the outpouring of community support and cannot thank you enough for partnering with us. Our office hours are Wednesday and Thursday from 9:00am-12:00pm to receive food donations at 96 Werz Industrial Blvd (back side of the building at the roll up door). Thank you again for helping us feed hungry children in our county.

• Individual Fruit Cups

• Ramen Noodle Packets

• Canned Soup

• Canned Ravioli

• Individual Grits or Oatmeal Packets

• Granola Bars

• Small Boxes of Cereal (individual servings)

• Mac-n-Cheese boxes

• Individually wrapped snacks (peanut butter crackers, cheez-its, chips, cookies, etc.)

The bold items, are the items we are always needing to have more on our shelves. Each weekend bag includes 2 breakfast items, 2 lunch items, 2 fruit cups, and a variety of snacks. Please do not send any Little Debbie type snacks as they get crushed in the bags. We currently are not collecting bottles of water as they make our bags too heavy.  Any monetary or food donations from this list are greatly appreciated to help keep our shelves stocked with food.

***If you would like to chose a few items from this list to host a food drive in your work place or neighborhood, please feel free to do so. We have found that it is best to only list 3-4 items as the larger list can be overwhelming and harder to remember when walking through the grocery store. If you have any further questions on hosting a food drive, please reach out to Nicole at nmcnutt.bpb@gmail.com

We need your help!!

Our shelves are empty and we are only able to stock food on a week to week basis. Typically we can get a lot of our food from the Atlanta Food Bank, but they have not had the items we need and we are having to purchase most of our food from Sam's each week which costs anywhere from $3,000-$5,000.

If you can host a food drive at your office, after school group, neighborhood or any other place you are involved, we would greatly appreciate the help in stocking our shelves.

The items we need most are:

GRANOLA BARS
INDIVIDUAL FRUIT CUPS
BOXES OF MAC-N-CHEESE
CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP (10.75oz can)

All food may be dropped off at our office during our office hours or by appointment.
 

March 9, 2025
Silent Auction Fundraising Dinner

We are looking for an "Impact Crew" to help us with all of the details of this event. We need volunteers to help us with set up, collecting donations for our auction, food servers, clean up, and a few other logistics. If you want to be on this Impact Crew team, please email Nicole at nmcnutt.bpb@gmail.com. If there is something specific you would like to help us with, please include that in your email and we will be in touch soon.
Thanks for helping us make this event successful!!

Let's Celebrate our Community Partners

We are so grateful for our community partners and their generous support of Backpack Buddies. Here are just a few of our local partners:

ALDI

KASON INDUSTRIES

NEWCO

COKES CHAPEL

PILOTS CLUB OF NEWNAN

SOUTHSIDE CHURCH

NEWNAN CITY CHURCH

ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

SOUTHCREST CHURCH