About Us
Who is PacksBack?
Why give to PacksBack?
What is PacksBack?
PacksBack is the idea and creation of Alex Emery, a 2025 graduate of Providence Day School in Charlotte, NC. Alex's friends and family are helping Alex make her idea a reality.
What is PacksBack?
Why give to PacksBack?
What is PacksBack?
PacksBack is a community service and community support initiative to collect new and gently used backpacks and donate them to students' schools who need them. We are partnering with local Charlotte, NC elementary schools for the 2022-2023 school year. Our goal is, through the gift of a gently used or new backpack, to help get kids excited
PacksBack is a community service and community support initiative to collect new and gently used backpacks and donate them to students' schools who need them. We are partnering with local Charlotte, NC elementary schools for the 2022-2023 school year. Our goal is, through the gift of a gently used or new backpack, to help get kids excited about going back to school. After collecting donations, we clean and sanitize them, and then redistribute them to students in a like-new condition.
Why give to PacksBack?
Why give to PacksBack?
Why give to PacksBack?
Personally, I have always loved getting a new backpack at the beginning of the school year; it is part of the excitement of going back to school. I have created PacksBack to help spread that joy and excitement of getting a new backpack at the beginning of the school year with those who may not ordinarily be able to. With your donation, we can spread that joy together. - Alex
Ways to donate
Donation Days
Stationary Donation Box
Porch pick-ups
Bring a gently used or new backpack to one of our donation days. All you have to do is drop the bag in the PacksBack box we will take care of the rest!
Scroll down to Events to find our next donation day!
Porch pick-ups
Stationary Donation Box
Porch pick-ups
If you can't make it to one of our donation days no worries, PacksBack does porch pickups! All you have to do is text 860-462-3087, put the backpack at your front door, and we will come by and pick it up.
Stationary Donation Box
Stationary Donation Box
We accept donations too!
You can also feel comfortable dropping a donation in boxes at Hawthorn's NY Pizza locations on Rea Rd and Carmel Rd.
We accept donations too!
Looking for new partnerships
We accept donations too!
We are not a nonprofit agency yet, so no tax deductions, but with your monetary donations, we can purchase new backpacks to donate to our partners.
Venmo @packsback
Looking for new partnerships
Looking for new partnerships
Looking for new partnerships
We reached our goal of 100 backpacks in 2021 and 2022. We hope to expand our operations for next year. If you would like to host a donation day event in the future, please use the contact form below.
with schools too!
Looking for new partnerships
Looking for new partnerships
We are also looking for more schools to make donations to. Please use the contact form below to start a conversation.
Events
All of our events have been completed for 2022
We held three very successful donation events this summer and reached our year one goal of 100 backpacks which we then washed, sanitized, and waterproofed before donating to Hidden Valley Elementary.
Our last event was the drop-off at HVES on July 21st. It was gratifying to know that PacksBack supplied over 100 backpacks to the student body at Hidden Valley. We hope to be able to expand our operations in 2023.
We are looking for new partnerships for 2023
Our goal is to have corporate participation in promoting PacksBack in 2023, please contact us below if interested.