Helping low-income families with food insecurities!
Helping low-income families with food insecurities!
Learn about how to Help Us Help Students by supporting local low-income students.
Places you can drop-off new school supplies.
Where to financially donate towards the gifts of 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.
A list of the schools currently receiving free backpacks.
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!
For Youth Initiative (FYI) Headquarters
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm
Address: 504 Oakwood Ave, York, ON M6E ZX1
Volunteer Member Home
Intersection: Weston Road & Rogers Road
Volunteer Member Home
Intersection: Keele Street & Bloor Street West
Volunteer Member Home
Intersection: St-Clair Avenue West & Christie Street
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
★ 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.
2335 Dufferin St, Toronto, M6E 3S5
44 Hilton Ave, Toronto, M5R 3E6
555 Harvie Ave, Toronto, M6E 4M2
228 Bartlett Ave, Toronto, M6H 3G4
145 Baycrest Ave, Toronto, M6A 1W4
10 Flemington Rd, Toronto, M6A 2N4