Help us provide much needed backpacks and school supplies to MDUSD youth who can't otherwise afford these items. At a collective cost of over $100, buying these supplies is just not an option for families who are struggling to put food on the table.

We know that education is the #1 path out of poverty and with a combined effort to help students in need, we can help put them on a path to success! With a core focus on quality to boost self-worth, we thank you for partnering with us to provide the tools and confidence needed for these kids to thrive!

This fall Peres K-8 School will welcome 570 scholars on campus. Every year, our students come through our gates ready and excited to learn new things. Every year we try to help our students overcome challenges in their day-to-day life. We provide opportunities for our students to be academically ready and emotionally sound to grow into their fullest potential. With this promise comes the great challenge of supporting our school families.  As a Title 1  school, 100% of our students get free and reduced lunch daily. Most of our families live in an economically challenging situation. 

Our vision would not materialize without community support. Our annual partnership with the Sydney Paige Foundation has allowed us to provide all our kids with backpacks filled with school supplies. Providing these very basic materials goes beyond the hopeful smiles of our students.  It signifies a great start to the school year with students prepared to learn. IT also signifies our families' sense of security that they do not have to choose between a meal or buying school supplies for their children to get them ready for the school year.

Each backpack is that is donated sets our students up to be successful everyday. We appreciate all your support in making our dream a reality. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Peres K-8 Family

Donate to Build-A-Better Backpack with HELP USA so our 800 school-aged children living in HELP USA homeless shelters and supportive housing can head back to the classroom with confidence in September. Here's how it works: you select a stuffed backpack from this site, our partner Sydney Paige delivers them to us in NYC, and HELP USA's staff puts them in the hands of our students. These families have a lot to worry about but with your help, backpacks and school supplies won't be a problem! Thank you for being a part of our community so we can help people build better lives. Email give@helpusa.org if you have questions or need more information. 

As the school year approaches, many families are facing the challenge of providing essential supplies for their children. The cost of a backpack and supplies continues to increase each year. 

By supporting our backpack drive, you’ll be giving a child the opportunity to begin a new school year with confidence and feeling prepared.

Please help us provide 250 students with high-quality backpacks, filled with age-appropriate school supplies, through the following wonderful organizations serving our youth:

• Good Shepherd Services
• The Children's Village

Thank you for your support!

Robin

Sydney Paige makes a difference in the lives of low-income children by giving them the tools and confidence needed to learn & thrive in school, stay in school, and graduate. 1 in 5 children in the U.S. live in poverty. The Sydney Paige Foundation provides high quality, fundamental tools that kids need to learn and thrive in school. Through individual donations, corporate partnerships and online backpack drives, we deliver high quality backpacks, books and school supplies to children in need. We are a full-service partner to our corporate sponsors, focused on building strong, long-term partnerships for sustainable giving. We don’t believe in simply “checking the box” on giving, and want our work to have a deep and meaningful impact on kids'​ lives. Our goal is to provide at least 25 fully loaded high quality backpacks (25 backpacks will serve 1 classroom) to children in need in Mount Diablo Title One schools, in the Mount Diablo Unified School District in East Contra Costa County, CA.

Thank you for supporting Win's 2023 Backpack Buddies program. The average American family spends nearly $700 getting their kids ready for school. Sponsor teams purchase backpacks filled with supplies from our supply vendor Sydney Paige on this website. These backpacks are delivered to Win children in New York City shelters and supportive housing programs. We encourage each team to buy at least 100 backpack bundles, although there is no minimum pledge to participate. Individual contributions through this page are also much appreciated. Please email Win at VolunteerServices@winnyc.org if you have any questions.

We're glad to announce that the Orrick NY office will hosting the annual backpack assembly/donation drive for the students of Storefront Academy Charter Schools on Wednesday, August 23.

Thanks to a generous donation from Orrick Cares, we have enough funding for 170 backpacks for students at grade levels K, 1 and 2. The school also has demand for an additional 40 backpacks for 3rd grade students.

As such, we also kindly reaching out to raise an additional $1,400 needed to cover these 3rd grade backpacks. 

We have until this Wednesday, August 5 to raise additional funds so that the backpacks can be delivered on time for the backpack assembly drive. So, if you can and are willing to donate, please do so before August 5.

HELP US HELP UKRAINIAN KIDS IN NEED

As Ukrainians enter into the second year of this senseless war, we are both heartbroken for its terrible civilian impact and driven to action to help where we can.

We have a strong connection to humanitarian efforts in this region. Our Director of Development, Sharon Girdlestone, and two of our Board members, Tim Cronin and Noah Sims, have all been to Ukraine and Poland to help feed, clothe and procure essential items to those who have been injured and displaced due to the atrocious attacks on the country. Noah is there now, working with World Central Kitchen, and has been for the best part of a year.

When the the war began, over 105,000 children were already living across more than 700 orphanages, boarding schools and other establishments. Now entering year two of the war, the number of orphans is estimated to have grown to over 150,000 and the displacement of these children has been horrific to say the least.

While thousands of orphans were sent back to the homes that originally could not care for them, tens of thousands more have been displaced across Ukraine with no place to call home. Even worse, according to a report by the Conflict Observatory (an organization supported by the US State Department), more than 6,000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped and put in Russian camps and over 14,000 more have been forced into Russian adoption.

While we do not know the exact number of orphaned children at this point, we do know that the need is NOW.  In collaboration with local non-profits, Boca Helps Ukraine and NovaUkraine, we are launching this online drive and could use your support immediately. 

Our goal is to provide 2,000 backpacks filled with highly requested school supplies and other essential items (coats, washcloths, toothbrushes, etc) to orphans in Eastern and Southeastern Ukraine. With your help, we can make a difference.

Please join us in our mission to help these children by making a donation today and spreading awareness about these needs.

With love and gratitude, The Sydney Paige Team

Since 1999, Ropes & Gray has undertaken this important community service initiative to provide backpacks filled with school supplies to homeless children in local Boston-area shelters. This year, we are thrilled to partner with the Sydney Paige Foundation and once again expect to sponsor hundreds of children. Each backpack purchased will come pre-filled with all the supplies a child needs for the school year. Every donation makes an impact!

• Each bag of supplies costs between $30 - $40 per child depending on grade level
• $100 donations support 2-3 children
• $200 donations support 6-8 children 

Thank you for supporting the Boston Backpack Project!

If you have any questions or need support with your purchase, please email us at Backpackproject@ropesgray.com

Children's Fund's Annual Backpack & School Supplies Drive ensures that foster youth and other vulnerable children will go back to school with the tools they need to succeed.  

You can provide Support, Opportunity, and Hope by selecting one or more of the items needed.

Thank you for helping us create a bright future for every child!

Help us keep kids warm this winter and performing at their best with awesome coats that last and are stylish to help boost their self-confidence!

At Sydney Paige, we have been flooded with requests from educators and non-profit partners for winter coats that are high-quality and water resistant. With self-worth and pure love as our driving factors, we went on a journey to find a solution. We are so excited that we have found a supplier of amazing jackets equally excited about giving back that both the littles and the teens will love - for just $25-$28! Whhaaattt!?!?

Our coats have a detachable hood and are fleece-lined (cozy!), machine washable and water-repellent - which means when it rains or snows, beads of waters will form and fall right off of the jacket! We would all buy these for our kids with a $75-$100+ price tag!

• Youth coats come in sizes 2T, 3T, 4, 5/6, 7/8, 10/12, 14/16 or 18
• Teen/Young Adult coats are available in S, M, L or XL

Thank you for your help to make the otherwise impossible POSSIBLE for the kids we are so fortunate to serve. We can't do it without you!

Giving Back Together,

The Sydney Paige Team ~ Courtney, Tenaya, Sharon, Chimene, Joanne, Natalie and Krista

Can you imagine Elementary School students not having crayons? If you're like us, you have crayons in multiple drawers and cubbies throughout your home as well as in your kids' backpacks. Unfortunately, for low-income students, this is not the case. They are unable to do coloring assignments given for homework and cannot create the masterpieces they should be able to in order to express their creativity and grow their confidence.

Please help us bring joy into kids' lives by providing students in need with the very best crayons out there - Crayola! Together, we can help thousands of kids for such little spend individually.

Why are we exclusively asking for 24 count Crayola crayons? It's simple -- because we always want to give the students we serve the very best and Crayola is it!

1. Self-Worth: The branding itself ignites complete joy within children and says "I'm worth it" like no other crayon brand could.
2. Quality: The magic of Crayola not only delivers its stellar performance of smooth, silky color with its crayons, but also has the strength others don't. And why is that? They wrap their crayons twice! -- A little trivia for your day. :)

If you are passionate about helping kids succeed in school and in life, please help provide Crayola crayons in our school supply kits by:

1. donating to this drive
2. holding a collection drive ~ you can collect in person or create your own online drive by selecting "Launch New Drive" to the right. If you're a student, we sign off on service hours if you hold a collection drive! :)
3. making a purchase through our Amazon wish list

Thank you for your help to make the otherwise impossible POSSIBLE for the kids we are so fortunate to serve. We can't do it without you!

Giving Back Together,

The Sydney Paige Team ~ Courtney, Tenaya, Natalie, Krista, Liat and Elanor

During these difficult times of rising costs, we are reaching out earlier than ever to ask for your help. Last year, we were able to distribute 19,731 high-quality, performance-enhancing, change-agent backpacks (amazing!) and have a goal to give at least 25,000 to kids in need this year. We will fill them all with full sets of age-appropriate school supplies and at least 1 book. We can't wait to experience the pure joy of students 'shopping' for their very own school bag and supplies, but we greatly need your help to make this happen.

Price increases continue to take place, but if we can raise enough funds early on, we can avoid them for the summer months when out-of-stocks related to back-to-school are an issue and prices shoot up even more. Please help us buy early so that we can help as many kids as possible by providing them with the tools and confidence needed to learn & thrive in school, right here in our own communities. 

Simply add items to your cart below to give and please share with friends, families, corporate sponsors, community organizations, etc. etc. Contact us at info@sydneypaige.org to set up your own drive to help us reach our overall goal as well (a great way for teens to earn service hours!) - Thank you for your incredible support!

Alone, we can only do so much. Together, the opportunities are endless!

Every year, our students come through our gates ready and excited to learn new things. Every year we try to help our students overcome challenges in their day-to-day life. We provide opportunities for our students to be academically ready and emotionally sound to grow into their best people. With this promise comes the great challenge of supporting our school families.  As a Title 1  school, most of our students get free and reduced lunch daily, so most of our families live in an economically challenging situation. 

Our vision would not be material without our community support. Our annual partnership with the Sydney Paige Foundation has allowed us to provide all our kids with backpacks filled with school supplies. Providing these very important materials goes beyond the hopeful smiles of our students.  It signifies a great start to the school year with students prepared to learn and for our families' sense of security that they do not have to choose between a meal or buying school supplies for their children.

The backpack also signifies a bright hope for the rest of the school year as each of our students "Think they can, work hard, and get smart."  Your donation will go a long way and will be part of our students' success this coming school year.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Join Taurean Prince, power forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves, to help send kids in San Antonio back to school prepared, confident and ready to succeed!

We'll be providing backpacks, school supplies, books, hygiene kits, water bottles, Covid vaccinations, meals and more to underserved youth from SAISD. We are so excited for our distribution event on 8/13, but know that we can't do it alone.

Please help by sponsoring items to help kids learn and thrive in school and life. We hope to serve 500 kids through your collective donations. Thank you!