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Brooklyn's Backpack Drive 2024 is under way!
Brooklyn's Backpack Drive 2024 is under way!
Brooklyn's Backpack Drive 2024 is under way!
Back for the eleventh year in a row, the 2024 drive is under way! Our next collection party will be on August 24, 2024 at Crows Coffee Waldo. Come drop off your donations from 9:30am to 1:00pm.
Backpacks & Spelling Bees
Brooklyn's Backpack Drive 2024 is under way!
Brooklyn's Backpack Drive 2024 is under way!
St. Elizabeth School 8th-grader Brooklyn Stewart prepares for Scripps National Spelling Bee and the 2022 Backpack Drive.
AFP Spirit of Philanthropy Award
Brooklyn's Backpack Drive 2024 is under way!
Philanthropist Wins District Spelling Bee!
Brooklyn recently received the Spirit of Philanthropy Youth Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals! The Salvation Army nominated Brooklyn for the award for her work in Brooklyn's Backpack Drive
Philanthropist Wins District Spelling Bee!
Philanthropist Wins District Spelling Bee!
Philanthropist Wins District Spelling Bee!
Brooklyn Stewart is not only a budding philanthropist, she's also a competitive speller who won the Missouri District Spelling Bee this March. You can see her winning word here AND make sure you watch for her as she competes with other spellers across the country in Washington DC in June 2022!
PBS Kids - I Can Help!
Philanthropist Wins District Spelling Bee!
PBS Kids - I Can Help!
Brooklyn is getting 400 hundred backpacks to prepare for back to school. But they aren't all for her. She's filling them with school supplies to donate kids at the Salvation Army Children's Shelter to make sure they have what they need for school as part of the 6th annual Brooklyn’s Backpack
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Philanthropist Wins District Spelling Bee!
PBS Kids - I Can Help!
The Kansas City soon-to-be fourth grader started a back-pack drive in 2014 by collecting 20 backpacks.
Kansas City Star
Salvation Army Stories of Hope
Commerce Bank Amazing Kids
For the fourth year, Brooklyn Stewart, 9, of Kansas City, has wanted to do a service project that will help less fortunate school children and provide them with colorful new backpacks filled to the brim with school supplies. "These kids literally have nothing," said Brooklyn, of the kids who stay at the Salvation Army shelters where she
For the fourth year, Brooklyn Stewart, 9, of Kansas City, has wanted to do a service project that will help less fortunate school children and provide them with colorful new backpacks filled to the brim with school supplies. "These kids literally have nothing," said Brooklyn, of the kids who stay at the Salvation Army shelters where she will donate her backpacks. Brooklyn, who will be a fourth-grader in the fall at St. Elizabeth Catholic School, has collected supplies and stuffed 240 backpacks in her drive this week. Video by Tammy Ljungblad/The Star.
Commerce Bank Amazing Kids
Salvation Army Stories of Hope
Commerce Bank Amazing Kids
When most kids go back to school shopping at 5 years old, they’re either bored by the whole experience or they focus solely on what kind of backpack they want to buy. Brooklyn Stewart wasn’t a typical 5 year old.
Salvation Army Stories of Hope
Salvation Army Stories of Hope
Salvation Army Stories of Hope
“I wanted to do a service project and I wanted to do something that would help other kids,” said 9-year-old Kansas City local Brooklyn Stewart. “When my mom heard that The Salvation Army was doing a school supplies drive, I wanted to help. When kids go to The Salvation Army, they sometimes don’t have anything… I just want to make sure the kids there have what they need.”