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      • Overview
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      • Empty Bowls Fundraiser
      • Cruise for Food
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For more information on our nonprofit, clothing help or the food insecurity blog please call or text: (315) 399-6602

  • Home
  • Programs
    • Phoenix Program
    • West Genesee Program
    • Outreach Program
    • Summer Meals Program
    • Scholarship Program
    • Ice Cream Program
    • Endowment Program
    • Little Givers Club
    • Oswego Women Lead
    • Project Butterfly
  • Events
    • Overview
    • Purple Party
    • Appreciation Dinner
    • Memorial Day Parade
    • Empty Bowls Fundraiser
    • Cruise for Food
    • Locktoberfest
    • Friendsgiving
    • Mystery Dinner Theatre
  • Board
    • Board
    • In The News
    • Testimonials
    • Blog
    • Board Minutes
  • More
    • Contact Us
    • Volunteer
    • Smile Club
    • Community Partners
    • Firebird Alumni Support
    • Resources
    • Buy Our Swag
    • Find Food
    • Photos

About the Phoenix CSD Backpack Program

Food is a school supply for hungry kids

Since nutrition affects cognitive, social and emotional development, children who do not get proper foods are more likely to have problems learning, growing and interacting. Erin's Angels is a nonprofit that ensures that children who rely on subsidized lunches continue to receive food vital to their growth and development.   


There is an immediate need to assist in combating food insecurity for elementary students in the Phoenix Central School District in order to ensure student focus on academic success. Hunger can greatly affect a student’s performance in school. Children who skip meals and are hungry perform poorer than their peers who have consistent access to food. Hunger has been linked to lower math scores, increased potential to repeat or fail a grade, and affected attendance to class.


 Approximately 14% of individuals in food insecure homes indicated that at least one person went without eating over the weekend. This greatly affects the demeanor of the children in these situations. A study on the impact of similar backpack programs displayed a change in elementary students: teachers indicated that students receiving food packages were better behaved, more attentive, and engaged in lessons.

11.5% of children in Oswego County are food insecure*.  When some of these students go home for the weekend, their meals are very uncertain. Over extended breaks, like Spring Break, which can last ten days or more, the amount of food and number of meals is severely affected. 


It is through your funding that we can provide qualifying children with a sufficient amount of food to last extended breaks.  Currently, Erin’s Angels works with approximately 70 families and 124 students weekly to ensure they are sent home with food to supplement and provide meals while they aren’t in school. 


*Food Bank of Central New York Statistic from Partner Agency Conference. 9/14/23

Feed PCSD Students in need

Maroun Elementary Food Pantry

Volunteers organizing food by expiration date to ensure freshness!

Angels helping to feed children in need

Mission: To mobilize the community, individuals and resources to provide food for kids in need

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When you become part of Erin's Angels backpack program, you're joining a movement of teachers, business people, community leaders, and parents with a shared belief: no child in our town should go hungry in Phoenix or Syracuse!

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Do you have an upcoming birthday?

birthday fundraiser

This simple tool that Facebook has given us is one of the ways you can help!

Here are a few easy steps to ask your friends and family to donate $5 for your birthday in lieu of a birthday card!

1) Go to your Facebook account
2) Go to your 'home' page, and look on the left side column. You should see the 'fundraiser' option under "Create" at the bottom. Click on "fundraiser" and Facebook will walk you through.
3) Pick the charity “Erin’s Angels of CNY”
4) Set your fundraising goal and time-frame. We've seen many successful fundraisers at $200 or even $500 or more! Set something that you feel good about and see where it goes! You can always raise the amount if you particularly like to challenge your friends.
5) Invite people on your friends' list and engage with them! This is key. Invite, invite, invite! Share often on your timeline: remember that not everyone will see something when you post just once. While some people may be hesitant to invite people on their friends list, remember you're giving them an opportunity to participate in something bigger than themselves. The opportunity to make a difference in a child’s life. No problem if they are unable or unwilling to participate at this time - you've at least extended an invitation!
6) Thank people as they donate and watch numbers go up! Seriously, these people are donating to Erin’s Angels because of YOU - because they love you, they appreciate you, they think you're the cats meow (and we do, too)!

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Everyone needs help sometimes. If you know someone in need please email the Sarah Roberts

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thank you to the mam pfo

Food drive for Bingo for Books

The Maroun Elementary Parent Faculty Organization collected food in lieu of admission prices for their bingo for books event again this year. We are so thankful for their support to ensure that no child goes hungry! 

Maroun Elementary Parent Faculty Organization

Maroun Elementary Parent Faculty Organization

About the program (interview)

Learn more about why she started and what's next in this interview with Skip Clark from 92.1 "The Wolf" Radio.

03_26_23_ErinsAngels (mp3)Download

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