THE VOLUNTEER FEE IS DONATED DIRECTLY TO FILLING IN THE BLANKS.
Meet our Founder Alexa and local friends for a morning of packing weekend meal bags for kids in need! If you can't make this one, we will be launching more very soon. We only have a limited amount of volunteer spots available, so please sign up as soon as possible!
New volunteering opportunities launching soon.
About Filling in The Blanks:
Mothers and community activists Shawnee Knight and Tina Kramer founded Filling in the Blanks in 2013 when they learned that over 34,000 children in Fairfield County alone were experiencing food insecurity.
They observed that children receiving free or reduced meals at school faced a looming meal gap every weekend. Marrying their loves of community, children, food, and philanthropy, they designed a weekend meal bag program to “Fill in the Blank.”
What started with 50 students in one school now serves 10,000 and counting at over 200 sites throughout Fairfield, Westchester, and Putnam counties, in-school pantries and a mobile pantry providing fresh food and connection to needed services.
Filling in the Blanks has delivered over FOUR MILLION meals to local families and continues to find new ways to serve the community.