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Info About Our Back-To-School Drive
Learn about how to Help Us Help Kids by supporting local low-income students.
Donated Backpacks For Low-Income Families
If someone in your household has the disability/mental health challenge & you have a student in your household from kindergarten to grade 12, please see details below for our application process.
All other low-income families will be able to register one week after applications open for a families with disabilities.
★ Discounted School Kits/Backpacks ★
Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students. Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students. Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students. Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students. Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students. Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students. Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students. Purchase low-price, high-value, great-quality school supply kit(s) with/without backpack(s), while also helping local students.
Includes FREE DELIVERY within Toronto.
★ Sign-ups open in July 2023!
SIGN-UP BUTTON located near the bottom of this page.
Donate Office Supplies
Downsizing or shutting down your office? I have new stationary, paper or binders that you would like to donate?
Help Us Help Students
The Toronto Cares Initiative will be collecting NEW school supplies for children in Kindergarten to Grade 12.
Supplies will be delivered to students in need across Toronto, focusing on household with disabilities. The backpacks will include items such as pencils, sharpeners, erasers, notebooks, paper, binders, snacks and more!
Help us by donating NEW supplies before September 2023 at one of our drop-off locations across the city (Monthly Donation Drives page). A list of items we are looking for can be found below:
• Backpacks
• Pencils
• Sharpeners
• Erasers
• Notebooks
• Paper
• Binders
• Masks
• Lunch bags
• Pens
• Rulers
• Calculators
• Pencil crayons
• Pencil cases
Help Toronto’s students start the year off right!
Donated Backpacks Registration
Families With Disabilities ONLY
If a member of your household has a disability (including mental health conditions) and you have children attending school between kindergarten and grade 12, please check back for registration in July 2023.
Other Low-Income Families
One week after registration opens to our families with disabilities, we will open registration to ALL OTHER low-income families. Pick-up may be required, on a set date and time, from our packing facility at 2213 Dufferin St (south of Eglinton Ave).
Buy Your School Kit/ backpack kit
★ Sign-ups OPEN in July 2023
Each School Supply Kit includes:
• FREE DELIVERY
• FREE BINDER
• 1 One Subject Spiral Notebook (70 Pages)
• 1 2-Pocket Organizer Folder
• 1 Zip Top Canvas Pencil Case
• 1 Set of 3 #2 Pencils
• 1 Set of 3 Black & Blue Ballpoint Ink Pens
• 1 Pack of 5 Crayons
• 1 Highlighter
• 1 12-Inch Ruler (Includes Metric Centimeters)
• 1 Easy Twist-Up Glue Stick (Washable)
• 1 Pencil Sharpener with Dome Lid
• 2 Pink Erasers
PLUS... For every 2 kits purchased, 1 kit will be donated to a low-income student in our local Toronto neighborhoods.
** Various random colours for the kits/lunch bags, but you can choose GROUP 1 (mostly neutral colours) or GROUP 2 (mostly pastel colours) for the backpacks only.
⭐ SALE PRICES ⭐
Backpack + Binder ($15)
School Supply Kit + Binder ($15)
Lunch Bag + Binder ($15)
Backpack + Supply Kit + Lunch Bag + Binder ($30)
Delivery (free).
Donate Office Supplies
Stationary and paper and binders, oh my! Our Back-To-School Supplies Drive accepts all NEW office supplies that could be used by students in the upcoming school year.
Email helping.toronto.2020@gmail.com or call/text 647-451-3663 to donate!
Have USED office supplies also? Check out our Biannual-Clothing-& More-Drive for how to donate these items and turn them into funding for our initiatives.
Financial Donations
$20 you can provide a local low-income student with a backpack, lunch bag, water bottle and all the supplies seen below. PLEASE DONATE TODAY!
Every dollar donated will go directly to school supplies for students in need!!!
Push the button above to be directed to our Donate Page with multiple options available to match your individual needs.
Donation Drop-off Locations
Several locations around Toronto
Please visit our Monthly Donation Drives page for current drop-off locations.