Back to School Back Pack Program

The Back to School Back Pack Program is a non-profit charitable company created in 2007 by Steve Kendrick. Steve founded the charity out of a desire to give to those who are in need; especially the innocent victims that are unable to help themselves. He noticed how much pride a child associates with his or her personal belongings, especially a backpack, and from there the Program was born. The Program is now in its fourth year and provides backpacks filled with basic hygiene products and school supplies to many of the homeless children in Gwinnett County. As a dealership and with the help of members of our community, we work together to raise funds for our program. We also take a hands-on approach as we stuff each backpack ourselves. In our first three years, we purchased and stuffed almost 4,500 backpacks for homeless children of all ages in Gwinnett County.

Some of the organizations that benefited from our first two years of donating are Gwinnett Children's Shelter, DFCS, IMPACT, Norcross Co-Op, PADV, the Gwinnett County School Social Services, and the Salvation Army. As an organization, we strongly desire to help those in need and hope to offer a positive action in the lives of the children we help.

If you'd like to get involved, there are a number of ways you can contribute to our foundation. Our fundraising efforts begin with our Wine tasting and Shoe event on June 17th at Infiniti of Gwinnett & our Annual Charity Golf Tournament to be held on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at the Hamilton Golf Club. From now until August, we will be selling raffle tickets for a week-long cruise across the Eastern Carribean! You can get more details on these events at our webpage:

http://www.subaruofgwinnett.com/back-to-school-back-pack-program.htm

or www.btsbp.org

Thank you for helping us to help the most innocent victims in our area.