Food 2 Kids Big Spring, Inc. is a volunteer-based 501c3 nonprofit. We do not have any paid employees within our nonprofit. We have a 14 member Board of Directors that meet once per quarter to direct the business affairs of Food 2 Kids Big Spring and within any given school year we have hundreds of volunteers that help us unpack our bulk food items that we purchase from the West Texas Food Bank and sack the food items in paper sacks to be delivered to local schools. One hundred percent of the donations we receive stay in Big Spring to help feed the children in need in our community.
The most efficient way for Food 2 Kids Big Spring to purchase large quantities of food is through the West Texas Food Bank. We purchase child-friendly food items such as juice boxes, cereal, vienna sausage, beef ravioli, diced peaches, pudding, breakfast bars, cheese cups, and pretzels. We fill large paper sacks with these food items and deliver the sacks to local schools (pre-k through 6th-grade students). Classroom teachers, administrators and school counselors identify students whose behavior, school performance and/or home environment suggests they are eligible for Food 2 Kids. Then on Thursday or Friday afternoons teachers send home the food sacks with the students that are eligible for Food 2 Kids. Food 2 Kids provides a WEEKEND food sack to children who may not receive a regular meal from the time they leave school on Friday afternoon until the time they return to school on Monday morning.
Here is a brief overview of how the program works:
Teachers identify students who qualify
Numbers are given to Food 2 Kids Big Spring
Individual bags of food are assembled for each student
The food sacks are delivered to each school campus
The teachers place the weekend food sack in the student's backpack on Fridays
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