Delivering Bags of Hope

Help your dollar stretch even further during Prime Days!

There are some HUGE DEALS on snacks and other essentials on the Bags of Hope wish list.

Help students facing food insecurity by purchasing items off the list and it’ll ship right to the office!

Snack List:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/33NWM52FBV7YL?ref_=wl_share

📣Snack Bag Assemblies Needed!📣

Summer only just started but guess what we are thinking about over here?

Planning out our snack bag assemblies for the summer to ensure we start the school year strong!

Last year we started the school year with 5,000 snack bags. I’d love to blow that out of the water!

We have a bit more storage this year, so let’s fill it!

If your book club, organization, church, business or even your family want to help; here’s how:
👉🏻Email [email protected] to mention you are looking to help.

What it entails:
-Your group provides enough snacks to fill as many bags as you’d like to fill. There are 4 snacks per bag, so you’d have to purchase that amount of each snack option.
-Printing off allergy warning labels (small slips of paper to put into the bags.
-Providing the quart sized baggies that they will go in.

You will get additional instructions from Heather when you sign up.

You can also donate by purchasing items off of this wish list:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/33NWM52FBV7YL?ref_=wl_share

📣Summer is here!📣

Stressing the importance of offering nutritious meals to children during the summer months, the School District of Janesville’s (SDJ) Student Nutrition Department announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

SFSP, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, provides nutritious meals to children during the summer, when free and reduced-price school meals are typically unavailable.

👉🏻Free meals will be made available to children 18 years of age and younger.

Persons older than 18 who are determined by a state or local public educational agency to be mentally or physically disabled and who also participate in a public or private nonprofit school program during the regular school year may receive free meals as well.

👉🏻Free meals will be served Mondays through Fridays this summer as detailed in the attached graphics. (Note: There will be no meals served Friday, July 3!)

SFSP meals are provided to eligible children regardless of race, color, national origin, age, gender or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of meal service. The USDA requires that all meals must be eaten on-site by participating children -- they cannot be taken home.

Below are also a few resources families can use to find free summer meals if they are not in the Janesville area.
-- Call 211
-- Text 'SFSP' to 914-342-7744
-- Check the Summer Meals Site Finder (https://www.fns.usda.gov/sfsp/sitefinder)
-- Visit the Summer Food Service Program Webpage (https://dpi.wi.gov/community-nutrition/sfsp)

HUGE thank you to the Janesville Morning Rotary Foundation for awarding a $1,000 grant to support the Bags of Hope mission!

We are continuous grateful for all of the community partners that give so generously to help students facing food insecurity.

If you need groceries now through June 14, stop by Festival Foods. You’ll have the opportunity to support Bags of Hope through a donation at the register!

We are so grateful to have Festival Foods as a community partner- helping students facing food insecurity.

Thank you does not feel like enough.

Thank you to Nicole for being inspired by our mission and coordinating a donation with your company, CapSpecialty.

Together, they donated $5,000 to help students facing food insecurity in the School District of Janesville.

We are always looking for community partners that are willing to share our mission, help by stuffing snack bags, coordinating fundraisers, or are willing to host fundraisers on our behalf.

Email [email protected] for more information on how YOU can make a HUGE difference!

As summer approaches, make sure you spread important information to anyone you know needing a little extra help when the kids are home for the summer:

👉🏻The following locations will serve free meals this summer (note that breakfast is provided only during summer school):

🛑No meals served on July 3rd.

June 15, 2026 - July 10, 2026

✨Lunch Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM✨

Harrison, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, Roosevelt, Van Buren Elementary Schools,
Edison MS, Franklin MS, Marshall MS:
June 15, 2026 - July 10, 2026 Meal Time 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Craig HS:
June 15, 2026 - July 10, 2026 Meal Time 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Parker HS:
June 15, 2026 - July 10, 2026 Meal Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

RRC:
June 15, 2026 - July 31, 2026 Meal Time 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Bond Park Pavilion & Hedberg Public Library:
June 15, 2026 - July 31, 2026 Meal Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Adams & Jackson Elementary Schools
June 15, 2026 - July 31, 2026 Meal Time 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Boys & Girls Club

Community partnerships are so crucial to small nonprofits like Bags of Hope.

We are so grateful to have a community partner like Restoration Candle Company!

Not only did Chloe donate $1,000 from her May farmers market sales to help students facing food insecurity; she helped open more doors for our program!

She created visibility for Bags of Hope. Because of that, another amazing person caught wind of what we do and convinced her company to donate $5,000!
-Post about that donation is coming soon.

Thank you so much for your partnership, Chloe!