Chelsea Spiro lead Spiro & Associates in an internal community project called Pack-A-Pack, created to benefit students who couldn’t afford school supplies. However, unlike the similar drives at grocery stores, our donation was specific to one charity, the Cape Coral Caring Center. The Cape Coral Caring Center is a not-for-profit organization that specializes in family assistance programs, such as food donations and emergency relief.

Our goal was to fill 30 backpacks with school supplies by the first week in August. We exceeded our goal by packing more than 60 backpacks and donating additional school supplies.

Like the clothing drive we conducted last summer, we had phenomenal support from our clients, vendors, staff and friends with this project. We’ve received over $1,500 in monetary donations as well as over $200 in gift cards to stores like Target and Office Max. Additionally, we’ve received the actual supplies themselves to fill the 60 backpacks we received, most of which were generously donated to us by Kevin Spencer of VF Jeanswear.

To mark our success, we were featured at the Cape Coral Caring Center for WINK-TV’s Judd Cribbs Show. To view the video clip, Please click here:

Thank you to all who participated!