Submit Release February 03, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News Blessings in a Backpack, a nation-wide organization founded in Louisville, Kentucky that is dedicated to keeping children hunger-free on weekends throughout the school year, is back in action after missing almost an entire year of fundraising due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The organization, which has partners in 46 states and the District of Columbia, is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and has a chapter in Louisville, Kentucky that benefits children within the local community by ensuring they do not go without meals on the weekends. Throughout the 2018/2019 school year, the Louisville chapter of Blessings in a Backpack helped almost 5,000 children across 48 local schools experience 185,402 hunger-free weekends. And now, they are excited to announce that, after missing their Pack the Sack fundraising opportunity in 2020, the Louisville chapter of Blessings in a Backpack is hosting a virtual Pack the Sack gal