JULY 1 – AUGUST 4, 2025
5 WAYS TO PARTNER WITH GGP!
1. Sponsor 1 Student with a $40 Donation. DONATE HERE
2. Shop our AMAZON WISHLIST and have it shipped directly to Gifting Grace’s office.
3. Become a Drop-Off Location. (Complete form here.)
4. Become a Corporate Sponsor – (Download Sponsor Packet)
5. Sign Up to Volunteer – Click Here.
Project Goal: Provide 1000 (or more) packed backpacks to homeless children throughout 9 parishes!
Project Plan:
Gifting Grace Project is hosting its annual 3rd quarter drive, Pack the Backpack – for homeless children. This projects objective is to provide them with the essential tools and resources necessary to start the year off on the right foot. Please see our schedule of events below.
JULY 1 – JULY 29TH: COLLECTION DRIVE
From July 1st thru July 29th 2025, Gifting Grace Project and Community Partners will be collecting NEW backpacks, school supplies, school uniforms, shoes and other necessary items to equip these students for going Back-to-School. ANYONE AND EVERYONE is welcome to join-in and participate. Businesses, Churches, Civic clubs, Beta Clubs, and Individuals.
JULY 30TH: PICKUP DONATIONS
On July 30th, Volunteers will help pickup donations from “Drop-off Sites” and deliver them to Mendoza Ford in Maurice, LA. On July 31st, Volunteers will help sort, count donations in preparation to pack.
JULY 31ST: SORT & COUNT SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Volunteers will help us sort and count all donations to make sure we have all items needed on site to start packing pencil pouches, hygiene kits, and backpacks Friday/Saturday.
AUGUST 1ST: SORTING CONT’D + PRE-ASSEMBLE PENCIL POUCHES & HYGIENE KITS
On August 1st, Volunteers will help wrap up sorting and staging school supplies. Each Volunteer will also help with packing 1500 Pencil Pouches, Hygiene kits and other preliminary work that needs to be done to prepare for the Main Event!
AUGUST 2ND: MAIN EVENT – PACK THE BACKPACK
August 2nd is the MAIN EVENT, where Volunteers will come together to work an assembly line and pack over 1000 Backpacks with school supplies and HOPE!
AUGUST 4TH: DISTRIBUTION
On August 4th, Volunteers will load up the boxes of packed backpacks and deliver them to their respective locations completing the overall goal of the project!
DROP-OFF SITES
VOLUNTEER
Volunteers help us “Pack The Backpack”, distribute warm coats and fresh socks, assemble our “Student Care Kits” and much more.
To get started, please select the event below. You will need to set up a Volunteer account with PointApp. Afterwards, please download the orange Point app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and login.
When additional events are available for you to Volunteer at, you will receive alerts on your phone and through your email.
Questions about Volunteering?
Email David@giftinggraceproject.com
School Supply List
Marble Composition Notebook
Construction Paper
Loose Leaf (Wide Ruled)
1 – Subject Notebook (Wide Ruled)
Plastic Folders (3 prongs, pockets)
Facial Tissue (1 box)
Dry Erase Markers (Black)
Paper Towels
1″ 3-ring Binder
Pencil Pouch
Earbuds
Index Cards
Dividers (1pk – 5 tab)
Sheet Protectors (1pk – 20ct)
Pencils – Pre-sharpened (12)
Pencil Sharpener with case
Color Markers (Washable)
Color Pencils (12pk)
Ink Pen (Black)
Ink Pen (Blue)
Ink Pen (Red)
Highlighters (Multi colored)
Ruler
Large Eraser
Glue / Glue Stick
537 Backpacks in 5 Parishes – 2021
In the third quarter of 2021, the Gifting Grace Project started a project called “Pack The Backpack” which is a back-to-school drive geared towards collecting and providing backpacks to homeless and impoverished children in our community. By the start of the 2021-2022 school year, we were able to collect and distribute 537 backpacks filled with pens, pencils, markers, paper, rulers, erasers, earbuds, kinder mats, kleenex, paper towels and lots more.
These backpacks were given to homeless children and youth across 5 Parishes including Acadia Parish, Iberia Parish, Lafayette Parish, St Martin Parish and Vermilion Parish.
Whether you would like to volunteer, donate money to the cause or collect school supplies to donate, we can’t wait to partner with Acadiana and bring smiles to their faces once again.
