Our Organization

Backpack Buddies, Inc. is a non-profit organization that was created to meet the needs of children in the Baytown area.

 The program is funded solely by donations - corporate and individual.  100% of donations go toward the children.  There is no paid staff - all work is volunteer.

 It takes an enormous amount of teamwork to make such a large, weekly project possible.  All of the food is ordered through the Houston Food Bank. Every other week, the Houston Food Bank sends an 18-wheeler of food to GCCISD's Central Receiving Warehouse.  The food is then delivered to each participating campus, in addition to First Baptist Church of Highlands, whose members assist with food storage, backpack inventory, stuffing and preparation, loading and distribution of four participating schools. 

The filled backpacks are delivered on Friday mornings to each campus where the Family Involvement Coordinators/Counselors intercept the backpacks and further coordinate internal distribution to students.

On Tuesdays, the empty backpacks are picked up from each campus along with corresponding reports and the process starts all over again.

Our Foundation

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

 6Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9As it is written:                                                  

           "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."

10Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

 12This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. 13Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

Director

Jana Hobbs

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