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Info About Our Back-To-School Drive
Learn about how to Help Us Help Students by supporting local low-income students.
Donation Drop-off Locations
Places you can drop-off new school supplies.
Financial Donations
Where to financially donate towards the gifts of Kits + Backpacks.
★ 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.
Includes FREE DELIVERY within Toronto.
★ Sign-ups close on August 21st!
SIGN-UP BUTTON located near the bottom of this page.
Local Schools
A list of the schools currently receiving free backpacks.
Help Us Help Students
The Toronto Cares Initiative will be collecting NEW school supplies for children in Kindergarten to Grade 8.
Supplies will be donated to students in need across Toronto, focusing on the Toronto-St.Paul, Eglinton-Dufferin and Davenport wards, where our home base is located. The backpacks will include items such as pencils, sharpeners, erasers, notebooks, paper, binders, snacks and more!
Help us by donating NEW supplies on September 3rd, 2022 at one of our drop-off locations across the city (more details coming soon). 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!
Donation Drop-off Locations
Toronto, Oakwood Village Neighbourhood (Main Site)
Toronto, Oakwood Village Neighbourhood (Main Site)
Toronto, Oakwood Village Neighbourhood (Main Site)
For Youth Initiative (FYI) Headquarters
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm
Address: 504 Oakwood Ave, York, ON M6E ZX1
Toronto, Keelesdale-Eglinton West Neighbourhood
Toronto, Oakwood Village Neighbourhood (Main Site)
Toronto, Oakwood Village Neighbourhood (Main Site)
Volunteer Member Home
Intersection: Weston Road & Rogers Road
Toronto, High Park-Swansea Neighbourhood
Toronto, High Park-Swansea Neighbourhood
Toronto, High Park-Swansea Neighbourhood
Volunteer Member Home
Intersection: Keele Street & Bloor Street West
Toronto, Wychwood Neighbourhood
Toronto, High Park-Swansea Neighbourhood
Toronto, High Park-Swansea Neighbourhood
Volunteer Member Home
Intersection: St-Clair Avenue West & Christie Street
Financial Donations
For only $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 the GoFundMe, which accepts credit card, Visa debit & MasterCard debit.
Alternately, you can E-TRANSFER donations (with no fees & no password required) to helping.toronto.2020@gmail.com
Buy Your School Kit/ backpack kit
★ Sign-ups CLOSE on August 21st, 2022
Each Supply Kit includes:
• FREE DELIVERY
• 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 neighborhood.
** 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.
Local Schools
Fairbank public School
2335 Dufferin St, Toronto, M6E 3S5
Hillcrest Community School
44 Hilton Ave, Toronto, M5R 3E6
Fairbank Memorial Community School
555 Harvie Ave, Toronto, M6E 4M2
Dovercourt Public School
228 Bartlett Ave, Toronto, M6H 3G4
Baycrest Public School
145 Baycrest Ave, Toronto, M6A 1W4
Flemington Public School
10 Flemington Rd, Toronto, M6A 2N4