Program Impact

Snack in a Backpack serves 9 schools, 3 crisis centers, as well as homeschool students in need, totaling 500 children each week during the school year.

Snack in a Backpack serves: 

• Blue Ridge Elementary
• West Fannin Elementary
• East Fannin Elementary
• Fannin County Middle School
• Fannin County High School 
• Milestones Preschool
• Head Start Pre-K
• Learning Tree Academy
• Mountain Area Christian Academy (MACA)
• Homeschool families
• Open Arms
• North Georgia Mountain Crisis Network
• Copper Basin Crisis Center

Over 102,900 meals were delivered in 2022-2023.  

5,150 volunteer hours for packing and distribution were committed to fighting hunger in Fannin County during the 2022-2023 school year.    

Snack in a Backpack and our Summer Meals Program Partners served a total of 47,500 meals to children during June and July of 2023 for the Fannin County Summer Meal Program with the support of more than 100 volunteers.

Mercier Orchards provides over 1,000 fresh apples each week at no charge.  

• 3 breakfast items (cereal, oatmeal packets)

• 3 protein entrees (chicken & rice, rice & beans, beef stew, chili, and/or mac & cheese, etc.)

• 2 milk boxes 

• 2 apples from Mercier Orchards

• 2-4 granola, nut and/or grain bars

• Additional snacks, such as apple sauce, juice boxes, peanut butter packages, peanut butter or cheese crackers, Mott's gummies, and others, as they are available through the Food Bank