Boomerang Backpacks

09/30/2026

🚨NEW PARTNERSHIP ALERT🚨
We're excited to share that Bowen Health is sponsoring the more than 125,000 bags Boomerang Backpacks will use throughout the 2026-2027 school year! Each week, these bags will be filled with food and sent home with children throughout Northeast Indiana.

By investing in the well-being of local families, Bowen Health is helping us expand our impact and continue our mission of nourishing children and supporting stronger, healthier communities.

Community partnerships like this make a lasting difference, and we're grateful to have Bowen Health standing with us in the fight against childhood hunger. 💙💚

Interested in making an impact? There are many ways to support our mission and help local children thrive.

09/23/2026

Meet our Boomerang Backpacks - North Manchester Chapter! 💙💚

Each week, our North Manchester chapter provides weekend nourishment to 175 local students, preschool through 3rd grade!

We’re also grateful to POET Biorefinery for supporting this chapter through a Good Deeds Grant AND an employee back-to-school food drive that collected an incredible 400 pounds of food! 🎉

This is what community looks like, neighbors and local businesses coming together to make sure kids have food for the weekend.

Want to help support children right in your own community? Reach out to us to learn how you can get involved with a Boomerang Backpacks chapter near you! 💙💚

09/16/2026

We are so grateful for the incredible support shown at The Inaugural Charge to End Hunger in NACS! 💚💙Thank you to everyone who came out, volunteered, sponsored, and helped make this event possible. We are proud to partner with the Carroll High School Alumni Association and our NACS community to support local students.

Thank you for supporting Boomerang Backpacks – NW Allen! There are many more opportunities to help support our mission this year. Follow us for more information!

08/11/2026

Join us Saturday, September 12 for our Family Fun Run & 5K!

Family Fun Run: 9:30 AM — a fun, one-mile trek around the high school track! All ages, strollers & wheelchairs are welcome!

5K: 10:30 AM — compete for age/gender awards and even see yourself on the jumbotron as you make your way around the track!

Registration: $35 through September 1 (includes a FREE shirt!)

After September 1: $45

Registration closes September 11.

Every registration helps support Boomerang Backpacks and our mission to provide weekend nourishment to local students. Come run, walk, or roll, and have some fun with us! We’d love to see you there!

Partnering with the Carroll High School Alumni Association for the inaugural “The Charge: Against Hunger,” the event includes a 5K and a family fun run on Carroll’s campus to raise funds for Boomerang Backpacks food assistance.

MORE: https://www.wane.com/top-stories/5k-family-run-to-help-feed-nacs-students/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WANE_15

07/21/2026

Boomerang Backpacks is incredibly grateful to Dow - Kendallville and the Dow Company Foundation for their generous support of Boomerang Backpacks – Noble County!

This incredible gift will provide an entire school year of weekend nourishment for approximately 90 elementary students during the 2026–2027 school year. That means 90 children will have access to food on weekends when school meals are unavailable, helping them return to the classroom on Monday ready to learn and succeed.

Thank you for standing with us in the fight against childhood food insecurity. Children in our community need us now more than ever, and because of partners like Dow, we can continue ensuring that no child has to face the weekend hungry.

From all of us at Boomerang Backpacks, and especially the children and families you are helping, thank you!

07/14/2026

Thank you Community Foundation of Whitley County 💙💚

We are excited to share that we were recently able to support Boomerang Backpacks’ mission through a $5,000 grant. This grant is intended to assist the organization's efforts to continue and expand their food programs for Whitley County Elementary schools.

Boomerang Backpacks is a non-profit organization based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, that focuses on battling childhood food insecurity. The organization currently serves over 4,000 elementary students across 45 schools, including students from Whitley County elementary schools. Interested in learning more about Boomerang Backpacks? Visit their website: https://www.boomerangbackpacks.org/

Have Boomerang Backpacks’ food services assisted you, your children, or other people in your life? We would love to hear your perspectives on how the organization has made a positive impact in our community. 💬⬇

07/08/2026

Boomerang Backpacks has been chosen for Target Circle Community Giving! Please vote for us in the Target app through September 30. Every vote counts! ❤️

06/26/2026

We’re honored to receive an $11,000 grant from the Arby's Foundation to help expand our efforts in feeding kids across Northeast Indiana. Thanks for partnering with us to create real change!

06/04/2026

⛳ Mark your calendars! The 17th Annual Boomerang Backpacks Golf Outing is August 21, 2026, at Cobblestone Golf Course. Grab your foursome or become a sponsor and help provide weekend nourishment for local students. 💙💚

05/29/2026

Thanks to the generosity of our community, our 2026 Boomerang Bash raised over $35,000 for Boomerang Backpacks–Steuben County! That funding will help provide weekend nourishment for more than 425 students during the 2026–2027 school year (covering approximately 75% of our annual program budget in Steuben County).
We are deeply grateful to our sponsors, donors, volunteers, and supporters who make this mission possible. Together, we are making a lasting difference for local children and families.

*An extra special thank you to Rebekah Cronkhite & Jeremy Cronkhite for leading, organizing and bringing this event to life & The 6 on James for generously providing space, food & enteraninment*