The Backpacks for Kids Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing children in need in the Greater Boston area with backpacks and school supplies for the upcoming school year. Backpacks for Kids was founded in 2001 by Dover-Sherborn High School students Kaitlin Murphy, Kristen Raymond, Kim Roth, and Leslie Wardwell. Continuing through DSHS students, the organization has been led by Elizabeth Allen, Eric and Sarah Bartholomae, Devon and Bailey Laidman, Charlie and Meredith Allen, Kerrianne Brown, Noel and Ben Gridley, Aryana and Cameron Moghaddam, Alex and Emma Goodness, Izabella Friedel, and Julia and Sophie van Rhijn. Kate Chiu, Jagger Grace, Erica Hills, Grant Mayer, and their families joined the van Rhijn Family in 2022.
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