Blessings By Grace Community Helpers

08/19/2026

08/16/2026

🎒✨ **WELCOME, HELPERS! THE ROAD TO 500+ STARTS NOW!** ✨🎒

After seeing the smiles, excitement and impact of our 2026 Back-to-School Giveaway, **Blessings By Grace Community Helpers is already preparing for something MUCH BIGGER in 2027!**

💙 **OUR GOAL: SERVE 500+ CHILDREN!** 💙

We are beginning EARLY because our vision goes far beyond backpacks.

For 2027, we are working toward creating a full **Back-to-School Community Resource & Wellness Festival** where children and families can receive access to:

🎒 Backpacks & School Supplies
👟 New Shoes
👕 New Clothing
🧼 Hygiene Kits
💈 FREE Haircuts
💇🏽‍♀️ FREE Braiding
🦷 Dental Resources & Screenings
🩺 Sports Physicals & Health Resources
🍎 Food, Snacks & Refreshments
🤝 Community Resource Vendors
🎉 Activities, Giveaways & MORE!

# # # WE'RE LOOKING FOR HELPERS!

We want to connect with:

🏢 Corporate Sponsors
🏪 Local Businesses
💈 Barbers & Barber Schools
💇🏽‍♀️ Braiders & Cosmetology Schools
🦷 Dental Professionals & Organizations
🩺 Healthcare Providers & Community Clinics
👟 Shoe & Clothing Companies
🎒 School-Supply Partners
🍎 Food & Beverage Sponsors
🤝 Nonprofits & Community Organizations
🎪 Vendors
🙋🏽‍♀️ Volunteers
💙 Community Partners

Whether you can sponsor **5 children or 500**, provide a service, donate products, host a resource table, volunteer your time, or connect us with someone who can help—we want to hear from you!

📣 **WE ARE STARTING NOW.**

Our goal is to give ourselves the time to build meaningful partnerships so that when 2027 arrives, **500+ children can walk into the new school year feeling EQUIPPED, ENCOURAGED, EMPOWERED & READY FOR LEGACY!**

🎯 **THE ROAD TO 500+ HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN.**

If your business, organization, church, school, healthcare practice, salon, barbershop or community group would like to be part of this vision, please contact **Blessings By Grace Community Helpers**.

🌐 blessingsbygracecommunityhelpers.org
📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
📞 760-818-3849

💙 **WELCOME, HELPERS!**
Let's show what can happen when an entire community comes together for its children.

**500+ CHILDREN. ONE COMMUNITY. ONE MISSION.**

08/16/2026

💙✨ WELCOME, HELPERS! — THIS THANK YOU IS FOR YOU! ✨💙

On behalf of Blessings By Grace Community Helpers, I want to express our deepest gratitude to every business, community partner, leader, volunteer, friend, and supporter who has helped make our 2026 Back-to-School Backpack Giveaway possible. 🎒📚✏️

Our first event is officially complete, and 40 children were served! 🥹💙 That is 40 children who walked away with support, encouragement, school supplies, and a reminder that their community believes in them.

None of this happens by one person alone. Every backpack donated, every gift card, every school supply, every food donation, every connection made, every phone call, every prayer, and every helping hand mattered.

🌟 A very special THANK YOU to our community and corporate partners: Food 4 Less Apple Valley, Grocery Outlet Inglewood, Five Below Long Beach, Whole Foods Market Upland, Stater Bros. Apple Valley, Super Penny Mart, Krispy Kreme, Raising Cane’s, Target Apple Valley, Community Health Action Network (Pastor C.J. Page), Staples Victorville, and our Delegate from Virginia, Nykia Dews.

💜 I also want to recognize the incredible people who continue to stand beside this mission: Keshiah Wyatt Smith, Naimah Woods, Dr. Bishop Alfred Moore, Mother Shirley Shorter, and Jacqueline Dunbar. Your leadership, encouragement, service, and willingness to HELP are deeply appreciated.

And we are NOT FINISHED YET! 🙌🏽🎒

📍 EVENT #2 — LOS ANGELES
📅 Sunday, August 23, 2026

We are continuing this mission because every child deserves to begin the school year feeling equipped, encouraged, empowered, and remembered.

From the bottom of my heart—THANK YOU for believing in Blessings By Grace Community Helpers and, most importantly, for believing in the children and families we serve. 💙

Together, we are building a legacy of love, hope, service, and opportunity—one child, one family, one community at a time.

💙 WELCOME, HELPERS! 💙
This is what community looks like.

08/16/2026

Thank you so ever much to everyone who helped in anykind of way!

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08/16/2026

💙🎒 WELCOME, HELPERS! | LOOK WHAT WE DID TOGETHER! 🎒💙

Blessings By Grace Community Helpers is proud to share highlights from Event #1 of our 2026 Back-to-School Backpack Giveaway!

✨ 40 CHILDREN SERVED! ✨

Seeing the children choose their backpacks, receive their goodies, enjoy hot dogs, Pirate’s B***y snacks and cold water, and leave with smiles made every bit of hard work worth it. 💙

This event was about more than giving away backpacks. It was about making sure children know that their community sees them, supports them, and wants them to succeed.

We are incredibly grateful to every sponsor, community partner, board member, volunteer, donor, family member and HELPER who contributed to making this day possible. Whether you donated backpacks, school supplies, food, gift cards, resources, your time, or simply helped us make the right connection — YOU were part of this impact.

🎒 40 children served.
🌭 Plenty of food for our families.
💙 Snack packs the children enjoyed.
📚 Back-to-school essentials distributed.
🤝 A community coming together for its children.

And guess what? WE'RE NOT DONE!

Our second Back-to-School Giveaway is coming August 23, 2026 in Los Angeles! 🙌🏽

At Blessings By Grace Community Helpers, we believe in being:

EQUIPPED. ENCOURAGED. EMPOWERED. FOR LEGACY.

Thank you for helping us build that legacy one child, one family, one community at a time.

💙 WELCOME, HELPERS!
This is what serving with grace looks like.

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08/15/2026

🎒💙 **BACKPACK GIVEAWAY 2026 — EVENT #1 WAS A SUCCESS!** 💙🎒

Today, we had the privilege of serving **40 CHILDREN** and helping them prepare to head back to school with confidence! 📚✏️🎒

Each child had the opportunity to receive a backpack and school supplies, along with one of our special **snack packs**—which the kids absolutely loved! We also made sure our families had plenty to eat with **hot dogs, Pirate’s B***y snacks, and cold water** throughout the event. 🌭💧

Seeing the children choose their backpacks, enjoy their treats, and walk away smiling reminded us exactly why we do this work. 💙

We are incredibly grateful to every donor, community partner, volunteer, and supporter who helped make **Event #1 of 2** possible. Your generosity went directly into the hands of children in our community.

✨ **40 children served.**
🎒 **Backpacks distributed.**
🍎 **Snack packs enjoyed.**
🌭 **Families fed.**
❤️ **Community served with love.**

And we’re not finished yet…

🚂🎒 **NEXT STOP: EVENT #2!**

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07/23/2026

"I just finished my Facebook Live, and I want to thank everyone who took the time to watch, share, comment, or pray for our mission. If you missed it, please watch the replay. Every share helps us get one step closer to providing backpacks for 70 local students. If God places it on your heart to support, our Zeffy donation link is in the comments. Thank you for believing in our children. 💙

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07/23/2026

I'm going LIVE today to share my heart and the mission behind Blessings by Grace Community Helpers.

We have a zeffy link for you guys to donate: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/the-first-fivetm-fuel-a-childs-first-week-of-school

Here is the Amazon wishlist link: https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/3PA17566R37B2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_ggr-subnav-share_3TR9XNC9T41EWHV6YZV8

This isn't just about backpacks—it's about making sure children in our community begin the school year feeling confident, prepared, and knowing that someone cares.

Our goal is to provide 70 backpacks for students in Kindergarten through 12th grade, and we can't do it alone.

07/22/2026

🎒 HELP US REACH OUR GOAL OF 70 BACKPACKS! 🎒

📚 Every child deserves to start the school year prepared.

Blessings By Grace Community Helpers is on a mission to provide 70 NEW, durable backpacks for students in Kindergarten through 12th Grade, and we need your help!

https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/3PA17566R37B2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_ggr-subnav-share_0S649B7M005RHKD4FSVC

We're specifically requesting:

✅ NEW full-size backpacks
✅ Strong enough to hold textbooks and school supplies
❌ No drawstring backpacks
❌ No foldable backpacks

High school students carry heavy books every day, so we want every backpack we give away to last throughout the school year.

❤️ Here's how you can help:

🎒 Donate a backpack

🛒 Purchase one directly from our Amazon Registry by scanning the QR code on our flyer.

📲 Share this post with your family, friends, church, coworkers, and community groups.

Every backpack donated helps a student begin the school year with confidence and the tools they need to succeed.

Together, we can make a lasting difference—one backpack at a time.

Thank you for supporting our mission and investing in the future of our children.

With gratitude,

Dr. Keytashah Barber
Founder & Executive Director
Blessings By Grace Community Helpers

07/20/2026

🎒✨ BACK-TO-SCHOOL BACKPACK DRIVE UPDATE! ✨🎒

Because of the incredible generosity of our community, we have made amazing progress toward equipping 70 students (Grades K–12) for the upcoming school year! 💙💛🧡

Every donation, every share, and every act of kindness is helping us ensure that children in our community walk into school feeling prepared, confident, and ready to learn.

📚 We have received hundreds of school supplies, including:
✏️ Pencils
🖊️ Pens
📁 Pocket folders
📓 Composition notebooks
🖍️ Crayons
🌈 Colored pencils
✂️ Glue sticks
🩷 Erasers
✏️ Pencil sharpeners..and so much more!

🎯 We still need your help!

We are currently seeking donations of:

🎒 70 Backpacks (Grades K–12)
📓 30 1-Subject College-Ruled Notebooks
👝 46 Pencil Pouches
🌈 34 Packs of Colored Pencils

Every donation—big or small—makes a difference in a child's life.

If you'd like to donate supplies, sponsor a backpack, or make a monetary contribution, please send us a message. Together, we can help every child start the school year with confidence and hope.

❤️ Thank you for believing in our mission and investing in the future of our children.

Blessings By Grace Community Helpers
"Serving Our Community with Faith, Compassion & Love."