"Backing the Need"
Past Events
Total Backpacks that KIDS CARE & the Cobb County Police Department have collected & donated to students in need in the past three years in Cobb County: 1, 374!
2023 "Backing the Need"
🏁 FINAL COUNT: 755 New Backpacks with School Supplies collected & delivered in Cobb County!! HUGE THANKS to the Cobb County Police Department for partnering with us again in 2023!
HUGE THANKS to The Champion Firm for sponsoring & supporting KIDS CARE youth volunteers' goal of 750 bags! With your generosity & determination we were able to meet & pass their big hearted goal!
HUGE THANKS to the volunteers who came together to accomplish the enormous task of collecting, sorting, counting, organizing, packing and moving ALL of these donations! Incredible work by all volunteers.
Months worth of personal hard work, volunteers hard work & continuous generosity from our community has Created an enormous (& important) impact on our community.
THANK YOU TO ALL THE BUSINESSES WHO MADE THE EFFORT TO COLLECT AND DONATE SUPPLIES!
Investing in local children always brightens ALL of our futures. Thank you to each person who helped make this happen. We appreciate you!
2022 "Backing the Need"
The Volunteers: 2022
The Heart of Community is Compassion. Taking Action to Serve others. Words can not capture the Universal feeling of Connectedness, Pride & Happiness that you have when serving your community with like minded Hearts. Giving your Time to benefit someone else's needs simply because you Care - that's pure Love! 💖
87 Volunteers proudly showed up & rocked Big Hearts while serving Cobb County for our "Backing the Need" School Supply Drive.
😊 There were miles of smiles, simple gratitude, generosity, hard work, leadership, role modeling, reflection, seeing old friends, making new friends, feeling proud & happy, staying later than planned because they were having F-U-N, and giving their best selves for our community.
💗 We are enormously proud of every single volunteer for taking the time to serve their community with KIDS CARE. THANK YOU!!!
The Donations: 2022
BIG DONATIONS FROM OUR COMMUNITY TO OUR COMMUNITY! We're so proud to announce that we filled and delivered 336 full backpacks to local Cobb County nonprofits who have given the supplies to students/families in need.
THANK YOU PRIVATE & PUBLIC DONORS...we are grateful for your participation, support and commitment to Kindness & Compassion. Thanks for making a huge impact on Cobb County! It takes a village and we are so grateful for the big hearts that donated supplies & monetary donations to make this school drive a success.
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES WHO SUPPORTED US:
*Cobb County Police Department *Cobb County Parks & Recs (Civic Center) *Vonzara, Inc. *Trucks & Festivals *Two Men & A Truck
*The Champion Firm *NPSG Global *ESI Inc, of Tennessee *Building Strong Horizons (Nonprofit) *Mudcreek Market
*Old Republic Aerospace *Hand-Me-Up's *Medalyn Salon *Chiropractic Specialists *West Cobb School of Rock *The Nutrition Stop
The Recipients: 2022
🎒336 Full Backpacks were gifted to:
Ser Familia, Inc (75 Backpacks)
LiveSafe Resources (70 Backpacks)
Simple Needs GA, Inc. (55 Backpacks)
The Center for Family Resources (35 Backpacks)
Foster4Love (35 Backpacks)
Cool Kids Committee Inc. (34 Backpacks)
The Center for Children & Young Adults (32 Backpacks)
*Osborne High School (Residual Supplies)
"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone." - -Shannon L. Adler
💙This past July/Aug our volunteers & donors definitely let us know that we were not alone on our mission to get new school supplies to students in need in Cobb County. We felt your Love and we passed it on to 7 local nonprofits and Osborne High School who then felt your Love. They were happy, relieved and grateful to get to pass our Kindness onto the families/students whom they serve. Receiving an unexpected gift of new backpacks with supplies allows them to feel cared for and sets them up for expanded opportunities. Let's hope they continue to have moments in which they feel they are not alone in this world.
Get to know your local nonprofits. They are ALWAYS helping people feel like they are not alone!!
💙THANK YOU AGAIN DONORS & THANK YOU TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS WHO HELPED MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN (getting all the supplies in the appropriate backpacks). We are so grateful!
💙Thank you Cobb County Police Department for your collaboration & commitment to this mission. Thank You also to Cobb County Commissioner Jerica Richardson for your support, inspiration & Kindness.
2021 "Backing the Need"
FEEL GOOD VIBES COMING AT YA: Marietta Stories Veteran Podcaster Mr. Bill Nowicki, dropped into KIDS CARE July event's to learn more about who we are and what we do. We loved the unscripted interview style & playfulness that Bill led this podcast with. Hear it & feel the good vibes at:
www.mariettastories.com/podcast
THANK YOU Marietta Stories Podcast for creating a great podcast which shares Marietta's local youth community service nonprofit KIDS CARE story with your listeners! We loved meeting you and having your presence at our live events. So glad you were able to meet our volunteers while they were in action! (Big Thanks to all the volunteers who didn't mind speaking on the spot! #bestvolunteersever)
Hope everyone can listen to our feel good story which demonstrates that KIDS do CARE! Youth of all ages are taking time to care for others & our planet - both with their thoughts & their actions.
LOCAL FRIENDS: Visit www.mariettastories.com to hear more about the wonderful people who make up our community!
KIDS CARE youth volunteers had a desire to give new school supplies to their peers who needed them. So we teamed up with the Cobb County Police Department and set out to do just that. In our first year of "Backing the Need" we collected and donated 283 new backpacks full of supplies to local students.
KIDS CARE, July 23, 2021 "Backing the Need" School Supply Collection Drive at the Cobb County PARKS Cobb County Civic Center: with the Cobb County Police Department, Commissioner Jerica Richardson, incredibly compassionate & hard working Volunteers and the generosity of individuals & local business Donors heavily supported KIDS CARE youths’ Vision of GIVING new backpacks & school supplies to students in need Cobb County.
We were honored to be joined by Commissioner Jerica Richardson & her staff as they continued their monthly Acts of Kindness by “Backing the Need” with us, helping spread the word of the drive, encouraging others to give if they could and participating in the volunteer responsibilities. We were very Happy & Thankful to see Mr. Bill Nowicki of Marietta Stories Podcast who stopped in to catch up on the action. We were incredibly Grateful for the multiple local businesses who surprised us with trunks full of donations to help get school supplies to students in need in Cobb County.
THANK YOU: KIDS CARE Youth & Families Volunteers, Donors, Cobb County Police Department, Lt. Rosine, Officer Akram, Officer Collum, Commissioner Jerica Richardson & Staff, Cobb County Parks, Cobb County Civic Center, Marietta Stories Podcast Mr. Bill Nowicki, The Champion Firm, Burn Boot Camp - Marietta, GA Burn Boot Camp - Kennesaw, GA Burn Boot Camp - East Cobb, GA School of Rock West Cobb, The School Box, Inc. Chattahoochee Technical College, GA Fire Proofing, Innovative Fitness, Elite Health & Fitness, Tang Soo Do
All collected Donations were given to the following local nonprofits who distributed the school supplies to students in need: Cool Kids Committee, Family Promise of Marietta, Ser Familia, Simple Needs of GA, Live Safe Resources, Safe Path and The Center for Family Resources.