Weekend Backpacks Baltimore, the nonprofit dedicated to fighting hunger and food insecurity among city schoolchildren and their families, will hold a food packing initiative this Monday, Aug. 24, from 11 a.m. to noon at Heritage Honda Parkville, at 9213 Harford Road.
A similar community event will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 2, from 11 a.m. to noon at Heritage Toyota Catonsville, 6324 Baltimore National Pike.
Weekend Backpacks is partnering with Heritage | MileOne Autogroup for the largest corporate volunteer engagement and donation initiative in the organization’s history.
Hundreds of Heritage | MileOne Autogroup employees and company leaders will transform dealerships across the Baltimore metropolitan area into high-energy, assembly-line food-packing sites, working with community members to pack 8,000 weekend food bags for city students experiencing food insecurity.
The goal is to provided and distribute enough food for weekends throughout the first month of school for the nonprofit’s recipient students and their families.
In 2022, MileOne Autogroup launched MileOneCares, its corporate giving program encompassing all philanthropic efforts across the company’s franchises in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, Missouri and North Carolina, as part of its Hall, Heritage, Herb Gordon, Annapolis, Plaza and MotorWorld divisions.
Weekend Backpacks was founded in 2015 by Pikesville resident Sandie Nagel, a former teacher at Krieger Schechter Day School, with the goal of feeding food-insecure children and their families in Baltimore.
For information, visit weekendbackpacks.org/.
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