Please Bring Supplies for our Hartland Kids Day Charity:

The BackPack Coalition

Backpack Coalition, which is now led by the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County, is committed to providing backpacks and school supplies to students with financial constraints, helping ensure they succeed in school. Each year the coalition distributes approximately 2,000 backpacks with grade appropriate school supplies to students in grades K-12. 

Did you know that 29% of Waukesha County’s population is considered to be either living under the poverty level or low income, working poor families who struggle to provide for their children.

 If you’d like to make an online donation, please follow this link.

Once again, we will spend approximately $75,000 to support the supplies for students this fall. Your financial donation will allow us to purchase backpacks and prepacked school supply kits. We will purchase the core learning essentials that will support students throughout the year.

Here is what your donation (cash or through the supply drive) does:

• Ensures a child can start the school year with the supplies needed to succeed.
• Without the right school supplies, a child’s capacity to learn can be greatly diminished.
• Makes a child proud to have their own school supplies. Every child starts out on the same foot, with the same items needed for the grade and school they attend.
• Reduces the amount of money teachers spend to fill supply gaps that families can’t afford.
• Frees up family budgets that are already strained, especially during these
  challenging times.
• Helps our youth grow to be tomorrow’s young adults, ready to face the world.

The following items are sought and MUST BE NEW for the supply drive to be brought directly to Hartland Kids Day 2024: 

• Crayons, 24 count
• Folders, paper or plastic
• Markers, 10-13 count, thin or broad tips
• Composition Notebooks, college or wide-ruled
• Spiral Notebooks, college or wide-ruled