Help students from families with low-income start school with the tools for success.

This drive is an easy way to join together with area faith communities and organizations to help children in our community who are affected by poverty.

Each year, we collect new backpacks and school essentials to benefit children from families with low-income who are served through ten different programs in Greater Saint Paul.

In 2019, 23 faith communities, eight businesses, and dozens of individual donors collected more than $23,000 of school supplies to fill 550 backpacks!

Supplies Needed

• Backpacks
• 3-ring binders, loose-leaf paper and folders
• Calculators
• Spiral and composition notebooks
• Pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils, crayons, erasers, highlighters, pencil sharpeners
• Glue sticks & bottles
• Scissors & rulers
• Facial tissue
• School boxes
• Hand sanitizer
• Reusable masks

Get Involved

• Host a drive with your faith community or organization.
• Help deliver and sort items on delivery day.

Donate

• We use monetary donations to purchase needed supplies not collected at the drive. Give online and designate “School Tools” in the text field, or send a check payable to Interfaith Action with “School Tools” in the memo line.