Help Provide 2x as Many Healthy Meals for Students Facing Hunger.For many children on Long Island, the school week brings more than learning.
It brings certainty.
Breakfast. Lunch. Reliable meals they can count on.
But when the final bell rings on Friday, that certainty disappears. Weekends can feel impossibly long for families already stretched thin.
You can change that.
Through Island Harvest’s Kids Weekend Backpack Feeding Program, 3,100 children head home each Friday with a backpack filled with nutritious food – enough to carry them through the weekend.
These weekend food packs provide:
Nutritious meals for families to share
Reassurance for worried parents
A powerful message to every child: you are not alone
This incredible, life-changing program is made possible by generous contributors like you. That means we must fundraise in order to continue to provide these vital meals.
Right now, your impact goes twice as far. Thanks to a CHALLENGE MATCH from The Sunshine Foundation, every gift is matched dollar for dollar, helping us fill more backpacks and support more families.
Give $25 – Join with other supporters to help fill a student’s backpack!
Give $75 – Fills the backpack of 1 student for half the year!
Give $150 – Fills the backpack of 1 student for the school year!
Give $300 – Fills the backpack of 2 students for the school year!
This incredible, life-changing program is made possible by generous contributors like you. That means we must fundraise in order to continue to provide these vital meals.
Your generosity helps children focus on learning, growing, and dreaming, while strengthening our community, one child at a time.
Thank you for helping ensure no child faces a weekend without food.
With gratitude,
Randi Shubin Dresner, President & CEO
Island Harvest Food Bank is a leading hunger-relief organization with a mission to end hunger and reduce food waste on Long Island. We accomplish this through efficient food and product collection and distribution systems, enhanced hunger awareness and nutrition education programs, a Workforce Skills Development Institute, targeted services for specific populations, outreach activities and advocacy initiatives.
The strategic objective of Island Harvest is to provide the highest-quality food, advocacy, resources, product and services to our neighbors in need, while advancing the potential of our staff and volunteers.
