Family Giving Tree

09/03/2026

Thousands of students started this school year with backpacks filled with the supplies they needed to feel prepared, confident, and ready to learn.

One more Back-to-School season is in the books — and this community made it possible. 🎒💛

FamilyGivingTree

08/31/2026

New backpacks. New classrooms. New possibilities. 🎒✨

For students across the Bay Area, the first days of school are already underway — and we’re so grateful to everyone who helped make sure they could walk through those doors feeling prepared, confident, and ready for what comes next.

Here’s to a great school year. 💚

08/31/2026

Family Giving Tree extends a special thanks to the San Francisco 49ers Charitable Giving Program for awarding funds to support 25 Bay Area students with fully loaded backpacks and essential school supplies to kick off their school year right!

Teamwork makes the dream work! 🎒❤️💛

08/25/2026

20 years of devotion! 💙

Today, we’re celebrating Celeste Delamore and two decades of building relationships, strengthening our Bay Area community, and keeping all of us laughing along the way.

And yes, we wrote a whole blog about her. We have 20 years to celebrate—let us have this. 😂

🔗 https://familygivingtree.org/blog/949-celeste

08/18/2026

The full range of human emotion felt on the first day of school 😅😂

08/18/2026

It’s more than just a backpack.

08/14/2026

We have developed very specific tastes. 💅📓✏️

Right now, we’re on the hunt for **quad-ruled notebooks and pencil sharpeners** to help round out backpacks for local students.

Yes, just those two things. And yes, the pencil sharpeners got a full photoshoot. 😂

Got ’em? Bring ’em!

We’re accepting in-person drop-offs at the Family Giving Tree Hub through **Tuesday, August 18**:

📍 280 Martin Ave., Suite 6, Santa Clara
🕙 Monday + Tuesday | 10 AM–2:30 PM

It’s a short window, but these last few supplies can make a big difference as backpacks head out the door. 💚

08/11/2026

Want to help local students? You can do it from your couch. 🎒

Become a Family Giving Tree Drive Leader and rally your friends, family, coworkers, or community through your own online donation link. **We handle the rest.**

💚 **Become a Drive Leader: fgt.org/drive

Hosting your drive can happen entirely online. Share your link with five people or fifty—they donate, and we turn that generosity into backpacks filled with school supplies for Bay Area students.

No collecting supplies. No hauling backpacks. No event planning. You can literally do it from bed. 😂

It’s an easy way to bring your people together and make a meaningful difference for local students as they head back to school.

Dedicated to serving in-need children with wished-for holiday gifts and backpacks filled with school supplies since 1990.

08/08/2026

Backpacks from this year’s Back-to-School Drive are beginning to reach local students. 🎒

As one of our partner schools told us: “Thank you so much. Times are rough. People really appreciated this.”

That’s what this community makes possible. Every backpack means one less thing for a family to worry about and one more student starting the school year feeling prepared and confident. 💚