COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Our Community Partners have held food drives, organized packing parties, donated their time, energy, and $$. The donations and grants we've received have allowed us to grow from 30 students in 2014 to hundreds in 2024.
LOCAL IMPACT
Our program has a positive impact on students attending elementary schools in our local communities. Blessings in a Backpack (BIAB), Rancho Cordova, provides weekend food for kids that face food insecurity issues during the approx. 65 hours they are not in school.
Can you imagine being a child on Friday afternoon and wondering if you were going to have enough food until you got back to school Monday morning? Of course, it would have a HUGE influence on that child's mood and attitude. This is where BIAB steps and provides food for Saturday/Sunday for the students.
- It's a fact that children learn best when their needs are met
- Food is an essential building block and is truly a blessing to a hungry child
- Better test scores
- Improved reading skills
- Positive behavior
- Improved health
- Increased attendance
OUR SCHOOLS
We serve Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). Additionally, we support several schools within the Folsom Cordova Unified School District (FCUSD), including:
- Cordova Villa
- Cordova Meadows
- Cordova Gardens
- Cordova High (ELD Department)
- Mather Heights
- Navigator
- Peter J. Shields
- Rancho Cordova
- White Rock
- Williamson
- Blanche Sprentz
- Theodore Judah