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Toronto Cares - Helping each other during covid-19
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Donate
  • Community Fair
  • Canada Summer Jobs
  • Back To School Supplies
  • Homeless
  • Grocery Boxes
  • Volunteers
  • References
  • Special Projects
  • Partners
  • FAQs
  • Half yearly Update

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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.

Find out more: BACK-TO-SCHOOL drive & Donation Drop-off

Donation Drop-off Locations

Places you can drop-off new school supplies.

Financial Donations

Where to financially donate towards the gifts of Kits + Backpacks.

Find out more: financial donations

★ 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.

Find out more: buying discounted backpack kits

Local Schools

A list of the schools currently receiving free backpacks.

Find out more: schools getting free backpack kits

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

GoFundMe

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

    Register Here To Buy Kits/Backpacks

    ★ 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

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