Who We Are
The mission of Filling in the Blanks is to fight childhood hunger by providing children in need with meals on the weekend. Since 2013, Filling in the Blanks has removed the obstacle of food insecurity for local children by providing each student in our Weekend Meal Program with a bag of food containing four meals and four snacks to take home every Friday.
For eleven years, Filling in the Blanks has been working to nourish children in our local community and ease the burden on their parents or caregivers.
The populations of students reached are children ages 3-18 who are on the free or reduced lunch program at their school or are part of the ALICE population (households that have a working parent but struggle to meet the family’s daily needs). The majority of the children we serve come from single-parent homes. Free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches are served in elementary and secondary schools to enrolled students whose family income is at or below 130% of Federal Poverty Level (free meals) or at or below 185% of Federal Poverty Level (reduced-price meals).
The long-term goal of the program is to increase academic achievement in school and increase opportunities for success in their lives.
What We Do
Each Friday the children in the FITB Weekend Meal Program get a bag of easy to prepare shelf stable food items to keep them nourished over the weekends. Kids are able to be kids with out worrying where their next meal is coming from.
We love our volunteers! FITB has been providing many volunteer opportunities for the community. Everyone can volunteer with FITB, either one time, virtually, or taking on a leadership roll within the organization.
Our volunteers play an important role in our Weekend Meal Program, the bags packed by volunteers help to feed thousands of children in Connecticut and New York. This program was started in 2013 by two moms that saw a need in the community. The program started with 50 children and has grown to serving over 8600 children.
Details
| (203) 750-0019 | |
| jbadalamenti@fillingintheblanks.org | |
| Jen Badalamenti | |
| Administrative Assistant | |
| https://www.fillingintheblanks.org |
