$26,790 raised by 91 donors
54% complete
$50,000 Goal
NEW DAY provides weekend food bags for Arlington Independent School District (AISD) students who live in food-insufficient situations. NEW DAY works with AISD school counselors to determine the number of weekly weekend food bags needed by individual AISD elementary, junior, and senior high schools.
The schools provide breakfast and lunch to many students each day, but on weekends there is no program to feed children that may be homeless or in homes that are at risk of food insufficiency and hunger. That is where NEW DAY fills the gap delivering individual bags of nutritious food to the schools that counselors and teachers distribute to those students in need.
NEW DAY volunteers do all the work of buying the food items, preparing the sacks, and delivering the sacks to the schools. Money to support NEW DAY's work is given by individuals, churches, various foundations, and our annual participation in North Texas Giving Day.
We can only exist with the help and donations of our volunteers and donors. We are forever grateful for our volunteers and donors past and current.
Thank you!
NEW DAY provides weekend food to hungry students in the Arlington Independent School District.
During this past school year, we provided approximately 2,200 weekend food bags on a weekly basis. Last school year, we experienced an increase in the number of requests, as well as an increase in cost for food products we purchased and packed in the bags. Your donations to NEW DAY are especially important even now as we work to serve every hungry student, despite the increase in food prices, with weekly meal bags.
We rely on AISD school counselors and family liaisons to identify students who are hungry and in need of weekend food, as the latest estimate is that almost 70% of AISD students need some type of food assistance.
Volunteers are always needed to help maintain relationships with schools, purchase, pack, and distribute food for our weekend food bag program.
Organization name
NEW DAY Arlington
Causes
Hunger & Food Access
Operating Budget
$100,000 - $249,999
Counties Served
Tarrant
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Other
BIPOC Leadership
Board Chair
Address
Post Office Box 171722