BACKPACKS OF HOPE

Backpacks of Hope is a program dedicated to supporting students facing food insecurity, ensuring they have enough food to sustain them over the weekend. Each backpack, costing $11, includes two breakfast items, two lunch items, three dinner items, snacks, juice, and milk, providing well-balanced nourishment for students in need.

Currently, the program serves 500 students across 20 schools in two school districts. School counselors, teachers, and administrators identify eligible students and coordinate with the Hope Creek Charitable Foundation to ensure these vital food bags reach those who need them most. We believe that no child should go to bed hungry, and with each $11 backpack of food, we are one step closer to achieving that goal.

Through Backpacks of Hope, we’re helping children focus on learning—not hunger. 💙

Backpacks of Hope provides weekend meals for children every week of the school year (40 weeks a year).

The Hope Creek Charitable foundation operates the Mill Creek Food Bank and the Backpacks of Hope because we believe in feeding children and their parents. If you want to get involved in packing bags, leading a food drive, or donating to this or any food program, contact us at foodbank@hopecreekcf.org

VOLUNTEER

There are many ways to volunteer to help the Backpacks of Hope program. We need help assembling backpacks and distributing them to all of our partner schools. (The Mill Creek Food Bank and Backpacks of Hope program is located in the back parking lot behind Gold Creek Community Church)

FINANCIAL DONATION

The Backpacks of Hope program is supported by Hope Creek, a charitable organization recognized by the IRS, operated by a small staff and many volunteers. Your donations are crucial to the ongoing community outreach of this program. Please click "donate" to give a financial donation today.

TESTIMONIAL

Can you imagine a five-year-old preparing their own meals every day?

Now picture that child feeling excited because they’ve figured out that spreading peanut butter on a tortilla is easier than using bread—because bread tears too easily.

What if that same child also shared that no adult is around to provide them with a healthy lunch each day?

Heartbreaking, isn’t it?

This is just one story, but there are many more like it in this school. It’s a daily reminder of why our Backpacks of Hope program matters. With your support, we can continue providing these children with nutritious meals—helping them grow, learn, and thrive. 💙

BACKPACKS DISTRIBUTION MAP

2024/25 Backpack Breakdown / 20 Elementary and Middle Schools (500 Students) / 3 High Schools testing pilot food pantry program

Total: Everett School District - 14 (416)

Cedarwood Elementary - 26
3414 168th St SE, Bothell, WA 98012

Eisenhower Middle School - 30
10200 25th Ave SE, Everett, WA 98208

Emerson Elementary - 45
8702 7th Ave SE, Everett, WA 98208

Evergreen Middle School - 30
7621 Beverly Ln, Everett, WA 98203

Gateway Middle School - 1
15404 Silver Firs Dr, Everett, WA 98208

Hawthorne Elementary - 29
1110 Poplar St, Everett, WA 98201

Heatherwood Middle School - 3
1419 Trillium Blvd SE #14, Mill Creek, WA 98012

Jefferson Elementary - 11
2500 Cadet Way, Everett, WA 98208

Lowell Elementary - 40
5010 View Dr, Everett, WA 98203

Madison Elementary - 100
616 Pecks Dr, Everett, WA 98203

Mill Creek Elementary - 13
3400 148th St SE, Mill Creek, WA 98012

Penny Creek Elementary - 20
4117 132nd St SE, Everett, WA 98208

Silver Firs Elementary - 6
5909 146th Pl SE, Everett, WA 98208

Silver Lake Elementary - 62
12815 Bothell Everett Hwy, Everett, WA 98208

Total: Snohomish School District - 6 (84)

Cascade View Elementary - 8
2401 Park Ave, Snohomish, WA 98290

Dutch Hill Elementary - 17
8231 131st Ave SE, Snohomish, WA 98290

Emerson Elementary - 26
1103 Pine Ave, Snohomish, WA 98290

Seattle Hill Elementary - 10
12711 51st Ave SE, Everett, WA 98208

Totem Falls Elementary - 8
14211 Snohomish Cascade Dr, Silver Firs, WA 98296

Valley View Middle School - 15
14308 Broadway Ave, Snohomish, WA 98296