2022 Backpack Drive
Help the Karsh Center Community Get Ready for School!
This July, the Karsh Center will once again host children and families from our community for our annual Back-to-School Backpack Giveaway. Last year, we helped more than 400 students and their families get ready to start the school year strong, and we can’t wait to welcome everyone again. We can’t have a Backpack Giveaway without the backpacks, and that’s where we need your help!
From June 1 – June 30, the Karsh Center is hosting a backpack drive for new backpacks, for preschoolers and kindergarteners in the community!
There are two ways to support this drive:
- Purchase one of our request backpacks directly through target.com or our Amazon wishlist, to be sent directly to the Karsh Center (3750 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020).
- Purchase a new backpack on your own, and drop it off directly at the Karsh Center during our hours of operations. We specifically need:
- 12″ backpacks for our youngest students
If you are planning to drop off, there will be marked boxes for backpack donation by the door to the Karsh Center. Please make sure to include a completed in-kind donation form inside the backpack if you would like a tax receipt.
If you are not a member of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, please email Development Manager Madeleine Dile, madeleine@karshcenter.org, to coordinate your dropoff time (so your name will be added to a list of approved visitors for our security).
We will pack these full of other goodies for students as part of this program, so please do not include any other school supply items inside the bags. If you are interested in donating other new school supplies, we will happily accept those donations in a separate bag!
Thank you for your support of our Back-to-School event!
Important information about tax-receipts/acknowledgements
In order to receive a tax-receipt for an item purchased online and delivered directly to us, please make sure to select the option of including a gift message/note with your purchase. On that gift note, please include your full name and mailing address.
If you are planning to drop off a backpack directly to us at the Karsh Center, please complete this in-kind donation form, and place it inside the backpack you donate. We must receive this form with the item you donate, and will remove and process it for donation acknowledgement before distributing your donated backpack to a student.
If you have any questions in general, please reach out to our team at volunteers@karshcenter.org.
If you are part of a group that is interested in donating a larger quantity of backpacks or supplies for this event, please contact Development Manager, Madeleine Dile, at madeleine@karshcenter.org for more details.