How to Help
Explore How You Can Help Today
Learn how you can get involved with Backpack Buddies and help feed kids in your community.
Just $25 feeds a
child today
Every $25 you give provides a child with meals and snacks to last the weekend.
The Friday Club
Give Monthly
Join Backpack Buddies’ monthly giving program: The Friday Club. For just $100 a month, you can feed a hungry child in your community every weekend and bring joy back to Friday afternoons.
Learn MorePack and Give Back
Connect your Company and Inspire your Team
In our Pack and Give Back program, community-minded companies financially sponsor bags of food for hungry kids and then join us at our warehouse to pack those bags. If you want to engage your employees and build an even stronger, more inspired team, then join us today to Pack and Give Back.
Legacy Giving
Leaving your gift of hope
Leaving a legacy to Backpack Buddies in your will is a meaningful way to care for vulnerable children, ensuring they can grow up with enough food to eat. Today, there are over 190,000 children in BC who are going hungry. One day, we hope to be able help them all. Your legacy will help to make this dream possible.
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Nourish and Flourish
Shop to Give in our Online Marketplace
Give real products like milk, hummus, grapes, oatmeal and more by giving through our online marketplace, Nourish & Flourish. Shop from the comfort of your own home, or get your family, friends and colleagues involved with a virtual food drive. Every dollar you give through Nourish & Flourish will go directly to feeding hungry kids across BC with Backpack Buddies.
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There are lots of ways to give to help feed kids in your own community and across BC.
Fundraising Events
Rally your Community to Generosity
We believe in the power of our collective action and champion community fundraisers. Create your own fundraiser and invite your family, friends, classmates or colleagues to give generously. Every $25 you raise together will feed another child for the weekend.
Volunteering
Give your Time
Every year, hundreds of people volunteer to help pack bags of food at our warehouse in North Vancouver. Volunteers work in pairs or small groups for three-hour shifts filling bags with meals and snacks to last a child the weekend.
UPDATE: Our volunteer program is currently full (wow!). Please be in touch to be placed on our waitlist. We look forward to inviting you for a volunteer shift soon.
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For just $25, you can provide a hungry child in your community with meals and snacks to last the weekend.