Backpacks and School Supplies Drive

Woodlands Community Temple is hosting a backpack drive to benefit the kindergarten students at the Lois Bronz Children's Center. The Center provides services and programs for infants, preschoolers, special education, and grade-school students, and a large population of these students have limited resources to buy their own supplies. These backpacks and school supplies would provide them with the necessary tools to be successful in class, help them build up their self-esteem, and teach them to have respect and pride for their belongings

Volunteers are needed to purchase new and unused school supplies and fill a new backpack with these items to be donated to the Woodlands Community Temple. (Alternatively, volunteers can purchase the components and the Woodlands Community Temple members will assemble the backpacks on-site.) Countable items, such as pencils and markers, should be individually sized (i.e. no bulk supplies please).

This is a great opportunity for teachers, students, families, colleagues, and religious groups!

Supplies needed:

• Backpacks
• Pencils
• Pencil cases
• Markers
• Crayons
• Notebooks
• Composition books
• Folders
• Erasers
• Glue and glue sticks
• Rulers

To volunteer:

1. Express interest below to record this opportunity in your Volunteer New York! profile and alert the volunteer coordinator
2. Purchase a new backpack and the supplies above; volunteers may fill the backpacks themselves or donate the items directly to be assembled later
3. Drop off the backpacks and supplies at the following locations no later than August 3:
   
   Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
   Woodlands Community Temple
   50 Worthington Road
   White Plains, NY 10607
   
   Weekdays from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
   Lois Bronz Children's Center
   30 Manhattan Avenue
   White Plains, NY 10607