Cleveland Area Backpack Buddies

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In addition to the weekend meals, CABPB also provides meals during the extended holiday and spring break weeks.

Local 501c3 organization that works to provide school age children, who do not have consistent access to enough food for the weekend, with weekly "backpacks" consisting of child friendly meals and snacks. Cleveland Area Backpack Buddies (“CABPB”) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides weekend meals throughout the school year for elementary & middle school aged children who are food insecure. Throughout the school year, each weekend CABPB provides meals to elementary age students at Cleveland, Polenta and West View Elementary Schools and middle school age students at Cleveland and Swift Creek Middle Schools. On average around 190 students receive backpack buddy bags each weekend. CABPB has been blessed with a great outpouring of support from the community to be able to fulfill these needs. We can't do what we do without the community support, so thank you!

10/10/2026

What a great day at Draft & Vine for their Chili Cook-off to support CABPB! We were blown away by the community support and participation. It was such a fun event and the chili’s were delicious! Thank you to Draft & Vine for choosing our organization to benefit from this event. And thank you to our chili judges, chili chefs and everyone that came out today!!

We continue to be blessed and humbled by our community’s generosity! 💛

10/07/2026

This Saturday!!! Proceeds benefit Cleveland Area Backpack Buddies!!! Come support and eat some yummy chili!

See you Draft & Vine!

09/29/2026

Thanks to an amazing group of volunteers, we kicked off our first bagging event of the school year! ❤️

Together, we packed more than 1,500 weekend bags for six schools in our community to help serve our local students!

A huge THANK YOU to each and every volunteer who showed up on Sunday. From picking up food at our storage unit and collecting our order from Food Lion, to setting up, cleaning up, and, of course, bagging more than 1,500 bags—you all made this incredible day possible! We truly could not have accomplished such a huge goal without you. 👏

And, as always, thank you to our amazing community partners, Oakland Presbyterian and our local Food Lion, for your continued support and commitment to our students and community. We are so grateful for you! ❤️

Here’s to a wonderful school year and another year of serving our local students together!
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09/21/2026

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED this SUNDAY!

We are looking for additional volunteers for Sunday, September 27th to help transport food from Food Lion (Cleveland School Road) and Storage King (Cleveland School Road) at 1:30pm. We need larger vehicles for the food transport. Food will be taken to Oakland Presbyterian Church, where the bagging will take place. If you are able to help and bag food there, that would be great, too.

Please sign up here ------> https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4ca4af28a6fdc34-65022787-cabpb?useFullSite=true #/

09/13/2026

📣 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 📣

It’s almost that time again! Our 2026/2027 volunteer sign-ups are available, and we’re kicking things off with our first bagging event on September 27, 2026!

We truly have the BEST volunteers and the most amazing community support, and we couldn’t do what we do without you! ❤️

Want to join the fun and make a difference? Check out our SignUpGenius and grab a spot!
Let’s make this another amazing year together!

08/27/2026

Please mark your calendars for this! Don’t miss some of our own judging!!!

08/01/2026

Volunteer opportunity:

OPC (Oakland Presbyterian Church on Cleveland Rd) is having a yard sale/school supply event on August 15 from 8-2. They need help Thursday 8/13 and Friday 8/14 afternoon from 4-7 pm and the actual yard sale/school supply event 8/15 8-2.

Please message Oakland Presbyterian Church or Sharon Arends for more info!

07/19/2026

Thinking of doing some back to school shopping at Lilly Pulitzer in North Hills?! We would love for you to head there on Saturday, August 8th anytime between 10am and 6pm to support CABPB!

Thanks to our friends at Lilly North Hills, they will be donating 10% of sales during the day to CABPB! We are so excited about this and grateful for their partnership!

Need more info? Message us here! See you at Lilly! 🩷

07/11/2026

Thank you to HopeFront Church for the INCREDIBLE food drives that were held to support CABPB as part of their Serve Day! Our storage room went from empty to exceedingly full and we are so thankful and blessed for the continued support we receive from HopeFront!

This donation will be a huge help as we start next month when school goes back! CABPB continues to thrive and support our students through community support and donations and just like today, we could not support these students without churches and organizations like HopeFront!

Thank you to the individuals who purchased and donated food at the grocery stores, and those volunteers who sorted thousands of items of food! We are very grateful for your support!

07/07/2026

Looking to support Backpack Buddies as we begin to plan for the year ahead? We would love your support!

🎒 Donate Here ➡️ my.cheddarup.com/c/donations-2026-2027-cabpb

Address

65 Glen Road, Box 631
Garner, NC
27529

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https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4CA4AF28A6FDC34-65022787-cabpb

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