Kids Can will team up with Feeding South Florida to fill backpacks with healthy meals for children on free or reduced lunch.
South Florida complete “backpacks” for over 4,000 students in the quad county area each month until the end of 2015. Appropriately “coined” the “Just a Quarter” campaign, the Kids Can kids will spread the word that just a quarter is enough money to provide a hungry child with a nutritious breakfast.
“The Just a Quarter campaign will help Kids Can make sure that kids in our community get a healthy start to their day,” said Logan Bratter, President and Founder of Kids Can. “All you have to do is collect quarters from around your house, your car or your office and with each quarter, Kids Can will buy a kid in need a healthy breakfast!”
The Kids Can Foundation has been working hard to supply Feeding South Florida with enough volunteers to pack weekend meals for kids in school.
“For almost a year, we have been volunteering at Feeding South Florida. Feeding South Florida was the first organization to allow Kids Can to open up volunteer opportunities to hundreds of families, including young children, in our community,” said Rebecca Bratter, Logan’s mom and a Shareholder at Greenspoon Marder.
Kids Can and Greenspoon Marder have provided hundreds of volunteers to Feeding South Florida since the Fall of 2014. Feeding South Florida identifies Title I Elementary Schools and/or after school programs that have at least 90% of their enrollment on federal nutrition assistance programs, household incomes that fall at or below poverty lines and are in underserved areas and provides them with packs of food for children to take home on the weekend. Each backpack includes two breakfasts, two snacks, two lunches and two dinners. All food is shelf-stable, kid-friendly, part of a well-balanced diet and fits perfectly into the child’s backpack. There are currently 15 sites enrolled in the backpack program, feeding approximately 1,800 children each week.
In order to reach their goal, Kids Can must raise nearly $2,000 per month or 7,000 quarters, but these kids aren’t afraid of the challenge, because “breakfast gives you the nutrition you need to have a great day, it’s the most important meal of the day,” said Meagan and Madison Jacobowitz members of the board of directors for Kids Can. Indeed, according to board members Ilan and Rebecca Goldmann, “these kids need breakfast because otherwise they will be hungry” plus, added Blake and Allye Backman, “a quarter is really not a lot of money.” And Miles Mittentag knows that with a lot of hard work the Kids Can kids will make this dream a reality!
“Feeding South Florida has been so fortunate to partner with Kids Can. That Kids Can is run by a Board of directors made up of kids who just want to help other kids, shows us that everyone can get involved in solving hunger” said Paco Velez, President and CEO of Feeding South Florida. “We are so excited to be launching the Just a Quarter campaign with Kids Can and equally as proud to be working with the future leaders of our community.”
To find out more about how you can get involved with the Campaign, contact Rebecca Bratter.
About Kids Can
Kids Can is based on the concept of kids helping kids. Our mission is to unlock the potential in our children by empowering them with the opportunity to give back to the community and enrich the lives of children who may be less fortunate. Kids Can seeks out volunteer opportunities for children from 2-22 and for adults of all ages. Kids Can also participates in fundraisers to raise money to help “kids to do the things we can do”.
About Feeding South Florida
Feeding South Florida Feeding South Florida (FSF) is one of 202 food banks comprising the Feeding America network nationwide. We are the leading domestic hunger relief organization in South Florida, serving Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties through a network of nonprofit partner agencies, including soup kitchens, food pantries, homeless shelters, group homes, and other emergency food service programs.
For more information, visit www.feedingsouthflorida.org
Read more...Kids Can and the Dell & Schaefer Law Firm are proud to announce our upcoming ‘Calling All Chefs’ event. The event will be held on May 3rd at 1pm at the offices of Dell & Schaefer (address listed below).
This month’s goal is to make 300 bag lunches that will be donated to the Jubilee Center of South Brevard.
All children must be accompanied by an adult and kids will also enjoy a physical activate lead by Corey from Getfit4kids.
Kids Can will provide all of the ingredients, we just need you. Space is limited so please RSVP as soon as possible to maxinejrn@aol.com or contact Rebecca at 954-873-6930.
Please note that a $10 donation is required for each child which will go directly to the Broward County Public Schools Debate Clubs.
Hope to see you!
Attorneys Dell & Schaefer
2404 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, FL 33020
Come help us reach our goal of making 150 lunches!
We’ll be making these lunches, which will be donated to the Jubilee Center of South Broward, on March 15th at 4:00pm at the JCC Preschool lobby (address is listed below). Space is limited, so please RSVP to kidscan2013@gmail.com.
Please note that a $10 donation is requested to participate to cover the cost of supplies.
David Posnack Jewish Community Center
5850 South Pine Island Road
Davie, Florida 33328
On Saturday January 10, 2015, Kids Can visited the S.O.S. Children’s Village armed with clothes, books, toiletries, towels, shower curtains, rugs, and countless other items so desperately needed by the foster children living in the Village.
In the weeks preceding the visit to the Village, the children who comprise Kids Can spoke with their family and friends in an effort to gather as many household items as possible in order to deliver and donate to the Village. Their mission was a success and brought smiles to the recipients, as well as the Kids Can kids who had the privilege and pleasure to make the deliveries.
When asked, Blake Backman, one of the Kids Can board members, said: “It made me smile to see them smile. We sometimes forget how fortunate we are and to help others makes me happy.”
Check out our gallery page to view the picture of this event.
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