Mil Gracias for supplying 600 students with new Backpacks and supplies...

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August 2024
Ready to Go Back to School!
Identity's Back to School Backpack Supply Drive was a great success, thanks to the big-hearted volunteers and donors who joined together to make it happen. These are some of the 600 students who are ready to start school on equal footing on day one.

A new backpack full of new supplies, a handwritten note of encouragement and an in-person "welcome" from caring adults are especially meaningful for students whose connection to school is insecure or fragile, including youth who are new to the country and our system of education. Together we are investing in their success!

Thank you to the donors who came together to provide the right supplies for each and every student, and thank you to the volunteers who rolled up their sleeves and packed each backpack by hand, and wrote special notes of encouragement included in all 600 backpacks.

Our Sponsors

Thank you to the Jewish Community Relations Council ([link removed]) , to the Bethesda-basedManhattan Strategy Group ([link removed]) , and to the Malloy Law Offices ([link removed]) for so generously supporting Identity students by sponsoring this year's Backpack Supply Drive.
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Thank You GHS

We are very grateful to outgoing Principal Cary Dimmick, incoming Principal Brittany Love-Campbell and the staff of G ([link removed]) aithersburg High School ([link removed]) for graciously hosting our Backpack Supply Drive events for the past four summers. A special shout-out to building services!

Generous Friends

Thank you to Stein Sperling ([link removed]) for donating 100 backpacks full of supplies to Identity youth from their own back-to-school initiative. And thank you Yi Chen "Alex" Liu for donating over 100 backpacks for students and coolers for our soccer players!

And we appreciate....
* The Cliff and Deborah White Foundation
* The Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation.
* Volunteers from the JCRC, Citizen Heights Church, Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville, the Malloy Law Firm, Georgetown Prep and other friends of Identity.
* AND.....
* Maria Rubio and Efrain Merino for sheltering the thousands of supplies in their garage this summer!

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