Grant Awarded to Backpack Program from Cloudsplitter Foundation

TICONDEROGA | The Ticonderoga Area Backpack Program recently announced that they recently received generous funding of $6,000 from Cloudsplitter Foundation. Cloudsplitter Foundation's primary focus is the greater Adirondack region. Cloudsplitter is dedicated to improving the future for the flora, fauna, communities and lives of the people in the Adirondacks. The foundation's preference is for well-defined projects or programs that have a defined need, budget and supporting documentation. The Backpack Program is an all-volunteer organization that provides backpacks filled with nutritious foods to deserving local area children on weekends throughout the school year. In addition, there also is a summer food program that provides a whole week of food in each of the eight weeks during July and August. These grant funds will be used exclusively to purchase the food from the Regional Food Bank of NE NY. The initial roll-out of the Ticonderoga Backpack Program in early 2013 served 30 needy children at Ticonderoga Elementary. Thanks to the help of generous donors and charitable organizations like Cloudsplitter, the program has been able to expand and grow from this relatively modest start. Now in its twelfth year, the program includes seven local area schools and 292 children are served each weekend during the school year. The hope is to be able to continue to grow and expand the backpack program and to provide additional food for more and more local area children who need our help. The cost to sponsor one child for an entire school year is only $273. One hundred percent of all donations are used to purchase the food to fill the backpacks for deserving local area children and donations to this very worthy cause are tax-deductible. For more information, contact John Bartlett at jbartlett1@nycap.rr.com.

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Grant Awarded to Backpack Program from Cloudsplitter Foundation

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