For Giving Tuesday, our nonprofit is launching a new and exciting project! Imagine the impact of filling 🎒15,000 backpacks🎒with essential school supplies so the most vulnerable K-12 students in East Central Indiana arrive at school ready and excited to learn. This brand new initiative is the ultimate giveback to your community. Can we count on you to help ensure 15,000 backpacks are filled with essential school supplies for local K-12 students who need it the most?  Click HERE to Give NOW!

• 🎒$500 provides filled backpacks to an entire elementary classroom.
• 🎒$25 provides a filled backpack to one child out of 15,000 students. 

With your support, entire schools in East Central Indiana who serve mostly low-income families can be outfitted with brand new backpacks filled with key school supplies for the upcoming 2026-27 school year - however, we need your financial support to complete this project!

Imagine a child’s face when they arrive at school having a 🎒backpack waiting for them and filled with packs of pencils, erasers, dry erase markers, boxes of crayons, tissue boxes, disinfectant wipes, lined paper, notebooks, glue sticks, colored pencils, colored markers, pocket folders, highlighters, index cards and headphones - all key supplies for learning. Imagine the relief from their teacher and the child’s family knowing that they have all the necessary materials needed for their child’s learning at school. 

Through a nationwide donation, Classroom Connections has received 15,000 backpacks to fill. Now it’s your turn to help us fill all 15,000 backpacks with key supplies for the new school year! 

🎒Look at the life-changing testimonies from teachers and classrooms we currently support and seemuch of an impact you can make through through $ donation! 

“Classroom Connections of ECI allows my students and their families stress less over school supplies and focus on classwork, especially now when prices are high for most everything. Everyone here appreciates the support and relief from this valuable resource.” Middle School Teacher in East Central Indiana

“Students from families with real financial needs are more confident because they have what they need because of Classroom Connections. My confidence as a teacher has grown because I can better meet the needs of my students.” Elementary Teacher in East Central Indiana

“The backpacks, books and other supply items have helped increase my class participation by a landslide.” High School Teacher in East Central Indiana 

🎒Can you help us? Your generosity gives local students hope.

Many blessings to you during this season of giving. 

Stacy Wheeler, Executive Director, Classroom Connections of East Central Indiana (ECI)