Offering

The July and August Mission of the Month is The Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York’s Backpack Program. “The Backpack Program helps alleviate child hunger by discreetly providing hungry children with bags of nutritious and easy-to-prepare food every Friday afternoon, so they have food to eat throughout the weekend. Although free and reduced breakfast and lunch programs provide significant nutritional benefits to students during the school day, many disadvantaged children do not have access to regular meals when school is not in session.”

Backpack Items Needed:

Breakfast items like cereal, oatmeal, or granola bars

Easy to prepare meals like mac and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, or canned soup

Bread

Milk or juice

Fresh or canned fruit

Fresh or canned vegetables

Snacks

Donations to Regional Food Bank can be given via your yellow Mission of the Month Envelope, via PayPal, or directly on their website (choose "Children's Programs" from the dropdown menu).