Back to School: General Motors Company & Attic Salt Backpack Donations

For kids and their parents, “Back-to-School” time should be a fun, exciting, and maybe even a little scary for those first-timers. For me, it used to mean a shiny new lunch pail (OK, maybe that’s dating myself), definitely new clothes/shoes, a fresh set of pencils/binder paper/box of crayons, and new book bag (what my family called it in the ’60s) or backpack. It meant reuniting with old friends, making new friends, giving Mom a few hours without the kids, homework, teacher meetings, and after-school sports.

Last month an email came in off our website from Vickie Humphrey, employee at local General Motors Company.  Her office was organizing a drive for school supplies and chose For Kids Foundation as the recipient. With very little storage space except the empty trunk of my SUV, I readily accepted her offer.  On August 2 I drove out to their offices on Echo Drive in Reno to meet the crew and load up the car with awesome backpacks and school supplies–LOTS of them!  

A few days later, I got a call from Attic Salt (Fuego), Meadowood; their donated backpacks were ready for pick up, too.  Board member Mike Norman drove over to pick them up and he got busy stuffing each with the remaining school supplies donated by General Motors.

These donations could not have come at a better time. In the last several weeks, greater than 100 applications from around the State have come in requesting help to purchase clothes/shoes/backpacks/school supplies. We are touched by the generosity of the community and support of our mission to: change the life of a child, one urgent need at a time.