Neighbors helping neighbors               a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency since 1991 Community Partners - Backpack Buddies Backpack Buddies is a program run throughout the country by individual churches and groups using several program names. Heritage Baptist Church in Annapolis works with Georgetown East Elementary School providing ready-to-eat or easy-to-prepare in a microwave food for children identified by the school as benefiting from supplemental food on weekends and school holidays. These children are already on the free or reduced meal program and the interaction with the children is only done by the school. Currently, Heritage Baptist's program provides 23 backpacks. Plastic grocery bags filled with nutritional, easy-to-prepare or ready-to-eat foods are delivered to the school each week. The school places these bags into the backpacks (also supplied by the church) and the children take them home on Friday afternoons, returning them to the school on Mondays.

Food donations come from Food Link, Anne Arundel Food Bank, the congregation, and the Heritage Learning Center. With financial donations from The Heritage Baptist congregation, long shelf life milk is purchased from the Maryland Food Bank. Become a Community Partner Click hereto submit information. Anne Arundel Community College Calvary United Methodist Church Customer Service Experts, Inc. First Presbyterian Church of Annapolis Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Arnold Pasadena United Methodist Church Severna Park Elementary School St. Mary's Elementary School Anne Arunel County Government Anne Arundel Women Giving Together Bay Area Community Church Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Heritage Harbor Women's Group St. Mary's Lower School St. Margaret's Episcopal ChurchServices from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramAs the holiday season is upon us, Services from the Heart, Inc., is kicking off its Third Annual Friends & Family Holiday Giving Campaign.

This year we are proud to be serving a total of 80 children. We believe that children should not have to go without food, which is why this program is so important to us. Services from the Heart can only achieve its mission with the assistance of generous donors who support our cause. We aim to raise $5000 through our Friends & Family H...oliday Giving Campaign. stihl 380 backpack blower specsWe would be happy to accept any donation of your choosing. vstr nomadic backpack for saleFriends & Family Holiday Giving Campaign Levels $30 provides a food backpack for one month $170 provides a food backpack for one semester $340 provides a food backpack for one year $680 provides a food backpack for two children for one year Please consider making a tax deductible donation as part of our Friends & Family Holiday Giving Campaign. backpack makers rethink a student staple

. /so/9LPOAMpa#/mainCAFE MEZZANOTTE COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER NIGHT Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Featuring: RaffleSee allServices from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramServices from the Heart and Severn School partnered to launch a new summer food program at Eastport Elementary School. The pilot program was facilited by the Severn School's Community Enrichment Program. backpack rschSevern students in the enrichment program picked up food items from BJ's, stocked the food pantry, packed, and delivered weekly food bags to Backpack Buddies Participants at Eastport Elementary School. veto backpack ebayThank you for helping us provide food to children over the summer!backpack h1d24aaServices from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramParole Rotary Club of Annapolis hosts a food drive on behalf of Services from the Heart and donates food items ($365 value) for the upcoming school year.

Thank you for your time, effort, and thoughtful actions!Services from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramAAWGT (Anne Arundel Women's Giving) Awards Services from the Heart with a grant in the amount of $5,625 to support the upcoming 2016-2017 school year. Services from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramJoin Services From The Heart Backpack Buddies - Dining for a Cause. Please visit the Evite for more information http://evite.me/XcKVKx3E9ZServices from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramTHANKS TO PAROLE ROTARY FOR THE $1000 GRANT AWARDED TO SERVICES FROM THE HEART BACKPACK BUDDIES PROGRAM.//so/1LD4B8GpJoin us for a 5K Run & Walk Featuring: A Kids Carnival & Silent AuctionServices from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramCheck out YOUR impact!Your positive impact on our community... We are all connected!Services from the Heart - Backpack Buddies Program added an event.5Christmas Around the World children's performanceServices from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramJoin Us on Saturday, December 5th at 7:00 PM at the Children's Theatre of Annapolis.

The Davy Dance Academy is hosting a Benefit Performance on behalf of Services from the Heart Backpack Buddies Program. We look forward to seeing you there!Services from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramConstellation's Community Champions Program supports our Backpack Buddies Program with a grant in the amount of $500!Services from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramThe Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis awarded our Backpack Buddies Program a grant in the amount of $1500 to support our program for the 2015-2016 school year. Services from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramOur program was chosen as one of the recipients of the Whole Foods Annapolis Nickels for Nonprofits July-September 2015. We raised $1661 from this event, we are grateful for your support! Services from the Heart - Backpack Buddies ProgramCommunity Partnership Night hosted by Cafe Mezzanotte raised $750 for SFTH Backpack Buddies Program, thanks for your support! Lindsay Feroli stocks the shelves with canned tuna, pasta sauce, boxes of macaroni and soup.

Right now the aisles are relatively sparse, having been picked over for Thanksgiving. This is not a grocery store, and Feroli is not a clerk. It's a room attached to Feroli's office at Phoenix Academy in Annapolis that she has converted into a pantry.Feroli, a social worker at the alternative public school, is one of about 10 people throughout Anne Arundel County who have established pantries inside schools after noticing students weren't getting enough to eat at home. About 40 schools offer programs to stuff backpacks full of food for kids to take back to their families over weekends. Teresa Tudor, Anne Arundel County schools' senior manager for school and family partnerships, said these are grass-roots efforts that don't receive school funding. They're put together by volunteers, churches, Rotary clubs, the Maryland Food Bank and private donors.These aren't by-the-books program that parents can enroll their children in, such as the free or reduced-price lunches.Either students confide in their teachers or guidance counselors that they're hungry, or faculty pick up on the clues: for instance, noticing the kids who hoard muffins and granola bars when breakfasts are handed out in classrooms."

Sometimes, they'll say, 'We really only have enough food for one meal a day,' or there are five other siblings and 'I don't eat as much because I want my younger siblings to have it,'" Tudor said. At Phoenix Academy, two to three families a week from the community use the pantry, and three to four students fill up bags.Feroli tried to start a pantry two years ago at MacArthur Middle School, an effort that never really took off. But at Phoenix, where many students come from low-income households all over the county, there was clearly a need.Every quarter, Feroli said, she's giving away 600 to 1,000 pounds of food."It's hard to be upset with a student who is acting out when you know that their stomach isn't full," she said.Tudor said that about 27,000 Anne Arundel County students — about one-third of the school population — qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. Nearly three out of every 10 students live in situations in which families are struggling to put food on the table.

At Meade High School, Bobbi Coffman started a confidential food program four years ago, after she learned from the administration that there were 30 homeless children enrolled at the school.In her spare time, Coffman, a teaching assistant and service learning coordinator at the school for 15 years, runs a charity called Happy Helpers for the Homeless.She said faculty were often coming to her in private, asking for assistance for children. On some days, she was being pulled aside to help a student who needed new underwear; at other times, they were whispering that another student needed an outfit for a music class.Coffman knew there were homeless students. But she originally had no idea there were so many, she said.Right now Coffman's organization fills backpacks with food so that 16 students can feed their households, which total 80 people. On Mondays the bags are filled and dropped off with teachers or confidants for the students; on Fridays the bags are returned."There must be a need, because those kids bring those backpacks back empty, on time, every week.