Back to School Charity Event

Team Building Event for Charity

What does it take to create and fill a backpack full of fun back to school supplies for a lucky child? If you're participating in the Back to School Charity Event, it will require teamwork, effective communication, and a willingness to roll up your sleeves and get involved.

The Back to School Charity Event combines physical and mental team challenges with the creation and packaging of back to school backpacks. Remember how excited you were at the beginning of the school year to proudly carry your new backpack and school supplies! You can relive the experience by sharing your efforts with a group of child recipients. The Back to School Charity Event is guaranteed to be fun, engaging, and memorable!

Groups create team names, compete to earn school supplies, negotiate for bonus supplies, and present their finished backpacks to the recipients. Your team's tools include collaboration, communication, planning, resource allocation, creativity... and a lot of heart. But the program doesn't end there. At the end of the event, all backpacks are donated to underserved children within your community — or the charity of your choice in the area. When possible, we bring the children to the program and the donation becomes personal. This is truly a moment they will never forget. Have you ever seen a child's face light up as they receive such a special gift of heart? With the Back to School Charity Event, you won't have to imagine... and there won't be a dry eye in the house.

Program length and complexity will be tailored to fit your specific timeline. We'll bring everything needed to fill the backpacks... you bring the tissues. The Back to School Charity Event allows you to build teamwork as you create a fill backpacks for a well deserving group of kids.

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Back to School Charity Event Logistics:

Foundation and Briefing:

Each team will receive all the materials needed for the Back to School Charity Event: backpacks, school supplies, water bottles, bonus supplies, and decorations. Teams would be stationed at different team tables. The entire team will receive an overview of the Children's Partner Organization along with the key objectives for the event.

Back to School Building Session:

Teams will have approximately 2 hours to create, fill, and decorate backpacks, solve the team challenges, and create a meaningful gift card. Teams will be presented with a series of 7 different strategic team challenges that require team collaboration, effective strategy, and efficient execution. Upon completion of each strategic team challenge, teams will have their choice of school supplies and bonus supplies to add to their backpacks.

Managing the Results:

Once teams have completely filled their backpacks with supplies, they will think that the event is over. This is where the element of surprise takes place as participants and kids are brought together. Participants are taken by surprise and are extremely moved by the spontaneity of the moment and witnessing the pure joy in the eyes of each child. The participants will be able to spend some time with the kids to share their stories, take pictures and experience this memorable time together.