Sagamore Council - 2024/2025 - Buddy Bags of Howard County: Prep & Delivery Sign-Up

2024/2025 - Buddy Bags of Howard County: Prep & Delivery Sign-Up

Event Details

Join our “Buddy Bag Brigade”!

Buddy Bags are bags of food for students that are food insecure. They are packaged each week by our group of “Buddy Bag Brigade” volunteers and then delivered to our local Howard County Schools.

The Buddy Bag program is a United Way funded program. The Sagamore Council Boy Scouts partner with the United Way to deliver service to our community, not to mention; we have a vested interest in ensuring our communities youth have nutritious food over the weekend to fuel their minds and bodies to Be Prepared to return to school on Mondays ready to learn!

We are always looking for additional volunteers to join our “Buddy Bag Brigade” Team!

There are two components to this community impact effort:

Each Wednesday we meet from 12pm to 1pm at 2733 Albright Rd, Kokomo to pack 300 Buddy Bags that are then delivered to our local communities’ schools.

Each Thursday we meet at the same location, 2733 Albright Rd, at 9 am and load our trailer with all the packed Buddy Bags and head out to the schools for delivery. The entire process is completed in less than 90 minutes and is an incredible way to start your Thursday morning.

You can sign up for either component! Both of these opportunities are a great teambuilding activity for your business and employees! Not to mention, make a huge difference in our community’s youth’s lives in a very short period of time.

If you or your business would like to assist and join our “Buddy Bag Brigade” team, please pick a day(s) to help and assign staff members to assist.

We also take group photo’s each time to post to our Facebook pages (United Way & Sagamore Council Boy Scouts, Peshewa District) and give “shout outs” to our volunteers!

Thank you to the following groups that have either participated in prior years or have committed to participate in the 2024-2025 school year!

Rotary Club of Kokomo

Solidarity FCU (donation of bags and volunteers)

Chariot Automotive Group (donation of facility)

Sagamore Council, Scouting America (trailer and packing/delivery coordination)

Hynes

Ivy Tech

IUK

Community Howard

First Farmers

General Motors

Community First Bank

Star Financial Bank

Johnson Agency

StarPlus Energy

If you are unable to assist but would like to make a financial donation to the Buddy Bag program, scan the QR code!

Buddy Bags are a United Way funded program.
If you have any questions regarding the Buddy Bags program, please contact the United Way at 765-457-4357 ext. 1008.

Your Point of Contact that booked your reservation will receive a reminder email one week prior to the date you registered to participate! Please remember to remind your group if you registered as a TEAM under one name. We do take group photos each time to post to our Facebook pages (United Way & Sagamore Council Boy Scouts, Peshewa District) and give “shout outs” to our volunteers!

Buddy Bag site location: 2733 Albright Rd, Kokomo, IN 46902.

Contact

When & Where

Save the Date Packing 9/4/24
Buddy Bag Building
Wednesday 09-04-2024
12:00 PM ET to 1:00 PM ET