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DaVita Nashville Pediatric Activity Book Drive…

The Nashville office of DaVita (TMC) dropped off their donations to the The Children’s Hospital at TriStar Centennial (https://thechildrenshospitalnashville.com/). It’s a real blessing to be able to partner with such a great company and wonderful people to do some amazing things to help our respective communities… A HUGE thank you to DaVita and all it’s …

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DaVita Labs Pediatric Activity Book Drive…

A huge thank you to DaVita Labs for partnering up with Backpacks from the Heart on the upcoming charity drive, again to collect coloring books, crayons, and small toys for the kids at the local pediatric cancer hospital to use while getting their treatments. Thank you, and God Bless.

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Christmas for the Homeless…

“Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace.” After breakfast and presents at home, we headed downtown to spread a little Christmas cheer to our local brothers and sisters in the hopes that they would know this is a day of celebration and not merely “December 25th”… …

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Homeless Shelter Children’s Christmas…

Thanks to the unbelievable generosity of those that donated on Facebook and via PayPal, not only were we able to fill boxes of toys, games, and the like for each and every child in the local shelter, we were also able to provide several boxes of toys, games, etc for anyone in the community that …

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DaVita donations to Edith Stark Elementary School…

An abbreviated collection drive by some amazingly ambitious and generous people afforded us the opportunity to deliver 100 backpacks filled with school supplies as well as an additional case of supplies for the teachers to Edith I. Starke Elementary School in Deland. Enough can’t be said about the Lab Customer Service team over at DaVita …

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Donations for the homeless…

A sincere and humble thank you to friends and family that once again came out to support “backpacks from the heart“ including newcomers Allen and his children which did a phenomenal job on their first outing. There were mostly new faces this year though a couple were recognizable and all were overly appreciative albeit surprised …

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School supply drive with DaVita…

A humble “Thank You” to DaVita for partnering up with Backpacks from the Heart to help provide school supplies for Stark Elementary School again this year. The efforts would not be possible without your amazing generosity. God Bless.

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School supply donation dropoff…

Many many thanks to Laura and her friends, Joe and his family, and Jose for coming through this past week on backpack and supply collection. Backpacks from the Heart is partnering with DaVita and will be providing donated school supplies again this year to the kids at Starke Elementary School and will be distributing backpacks …

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School supply donation dropoff…

A huge shoutout to Joe and his wife for their AWESOME donation this evening… Backpacks from the Heart will be looking to supply supplies again this year to the kids at Starke Elementary School and this is a serious headstart to accomplishing that goal…before it was even announced!!! Thank you Joe, and God Bless.

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Activity books for the Florida Hospital for children pediatric hematology

A quick trip to the Florida Hospital for children pediatric hematology delivering just some of the amazing treasures collected by the AWESOME DaVita team at Florida Deland, including cases of coloring books, activity books, and crayons as well as candy. I only delivered about a third a what was collected so as not to overfill …

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