Like to shop? Like to support local charities and fair trade products? Now you can do it all in one night! On Friday, November 14, from 6pm to 8pm we have partnered with Ten Thousand Villages to offer a shopping night that helps support programs at BackPack Beginnings. If you aren't familiar, the Ten Thousand [...]
Kate Morrow (or Mrs. Morrow, as she will forever be to me) and I go back a long time. She taught me Geometry in the 9th grade. Mrs. Morrow was one of those teachers who always spoke to you if you saw her in [...]
7,700 pairs of shoes. Take a moment to really wrap your head around that number. 7,700. How many closets could you fill with 7,700 shoes? I’m not exactly sure, but I do know that 7,700 shoes fills 308 large trash bags. Three hundred and EIGHT. What do all of these shoes [...]
Most moms of toddler twins are knee deep in…well…toddler twins. They have just exited the baby stage to enter the flurry of activity that all of us with toddlers experience…except that they experience it exponentially. Doing laundry can even seem daunting at times. Not to Allison Cochran, BackPack Beginnings’ enthusiastic Volunteer Program Director. In the [...]
BackPack Beginnings has partnered with Fiat of the Triad to literally “Fill a Fiat”. Ever wonder how much room a Fiat REALLY has? We are getting ready to find out. Fiat has earned the European Car of the Year Award more times than any other manufacturer. If you have ever wanted to check one out, [...]
