Community Impact
Blessings In a Backpack
About Event
The Hoopis Group Charity Club and additional team members partnered with Blessings in a Backpack to help provide food for local students in need. We worked to pack over 500 bags of food for children in need at St. Malachy School in Chicago in June 2017.
About Blessings in a Backpack
Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry.
There are more than 13.1 -million children in this country who are at risk of hunger. The consequences of hunger are much more than a growling stomach. Poor nutrition can result in a weaker immune system, increased hospitalization, lower IQ, shorter attention spans, and lower academic achievement. Children are fed during the school week by federal government programs, but we want to make sure theyre getting nutritional meals over the weekend, too.
Blessings in a Backpack is a 501 C (3) non-profit organization currently feeding over 87,300 children in nearly 1,092 schools in 45 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Peter Hoopis is CEO of Hoopis Group and author of the new book E-Cruiting, which leverages his almost three decades of experience in recruiting Financial Services Professionals. Peter specializes in mentoring, training, and developing Financial Services managers and making them better recruiters and helping them grow their firms. In his spare time, he enjoys camping with his children and driving his race car; he is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He lives in Chicago with his wife Melissa and four children.