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Packing and hand-delivering backpacks filled with essential supplies
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Establishing a personal connection to uplift each client that we encounter
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Connecting our clients to other homeless service providers within their community
OUR STORY
The Backpack Project, Inc. ("TBP") is a student-run 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to packing and hand-delivering backpacks containing food, toiletries, and other necessities to those experiencing homelessness. Founded in 2015, TBP operates throughout the Southeast with a focus on Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. TBP strives to provide items of high quality to all clients, tailored to seasonal needs. In 2024, the organization will distribute its 20,500th backpack and 675,000th item.
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In large part due to our sponsors, partners, and community members like you, we've been able to create marked impacts in all of our communities. We ourselves have been deeply humbled and moved by our clients. The connections and relationships we form through simple conversations with our clients inspire us to tackle homelessness with creativity and compassion.
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18,000+
700K
ITEMS
DELIVERED
BACKPACKS DISTRIBUTED
CITIES
SERVED
STUDENT-LED
EVENTS
WHAT GOES INSIDE A BACKPACK?
Each backpack contains over 30 food, toiletry, and clothing items, among other essentials. We refine the supplies in our backpacks biannually through focus groups and research conducted with our clients. We have a commitment to listening to our clients and taking their recommendations seriously, catering our backpacks to their most pressing needs.
We are able to create each backpack with 30+ high-quality items for less than $25 dollars by leveraging our connections with corporations who donate many of our supplies in-kind. In addition, we conduct biannual product sourcing research aiming to look for wholesale vendors with high utility supplies at a low cost. As a result, our backpack supplies are informed by our clients, and each individual item is further refined to be the best quality possible.
FOOD, TOILETRIES, CLOTHES & MORE!
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OUR VISION
The Backpack Project, Inc. ("TBP") is a student-run 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to packing and hand-delivering backpacks containing food, toiletries, and other necessities to those experiencing homelessness. Founded in 2015, TBP operates throughout the Southeast with a focus on Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. TBP strives to provide items of high quality to all clients, tailored to seasonal needs. In 2024, the organization will distribute its 20,500th backpack and 675,000th item.
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In large part due to our sponsors, partners, and community members like you, we've been able to create marked impacts in all of our communities. We ourselves have been deeply humbled and moved by our clients. The connections and relationships we form through simple conversations with our clients inspire us to tackle homelessness with creativity and compassion.