What is Stuff the Bus?
United Way NCA’s Stuff the Bus campaign provides backpacks filled with grade-appropriate school supplies to middle school students attending our seven Community Schools in DC and surrounding counties in Northern Virginia and Maryland.
Our next Stuff the Bus event will take place on January 15, 2025.
Stuff the Bus is one of many initiatives that United Way NCA has established to bring together individuals and organizations to help bridge the gap to equitable access to education by providing critical resources for students across the region.
Stuff The Bus Locations
Our Stuff the Bus campaign serves the following seven Community schools:
- Francis C. Hammond Middle School
- Walt Whitman Middle School
- Kelly Miller Middle School
- International High School at Largo
- Buck Lodge Middle School
- A. Mario Loiederman Middle School
- Thurgood G. Marshall Middle School
Our Mission
Education is essential to unlocking a student’s potential and achieving financial success. However, for many families in the National Capital Area, the cost of buying school supplies can be a significant burden. By providing backpacks and school supplies, United Way NCA equips students with the essential resources they need and reduce barriers to academic progress, while increasing the economic opportunity of their families.
Through our Stuff the Bus initiative, we are mobilizing the community to provide middle school students in our seven Title I Community Schools throughout the region with backpacks containing grade-appropriate school supplies. This will ensure students have the tools they need to do their homework, take tests, and complete projects to succeed in school. The Community Schools program specifically focuses on the middle school to college/career success pipeline by preparing students in targeted, at-risk middle schools to transition successfully to high school and perform at grade level.
Our 2023 Stuff the Bus campaign was a huge success delivering almost 2,000 filled backpacks to DMV community schools!
With investments from generous supporters like yourself, United Way NCA can continue their efforts to assist ALICE in Loudoun and throughout the region. That means efforts such as supporting food pantries at Sterling Middle School and Park View High School. These pantries provide more than just groceries, but also other household and hygiene products.
It also means volunteer opportunities like partnering with LEF’s Backpack Coalition to pack nearly 1,000 weekend meal kits to be distributed to those in need at 28 Loudoun County schools. The funds also allow United Way NCA to continually assess the needs of the community to identify where resources are needed the most in the region.
The ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) population represents more than 500,000 low- and moderate-income households in our region that earn more than the Federal Poverty Level but less than the basic cost of living for the county/state in which they live. United Way NCA’s ALICE Lives Here initiative aims to reduce disparities in the areas of health, education and economic opportunity and improve outcomes for individuals and families in the National Capital Area.
Are you ready to make a positive impact on a local middle school student? Participate in United Way NCA’s Stuff the Bus campaign for the 2024-25 school year by providing school supplies to middle schools students in DC and surrounding counties in Northern Virginia and Maryland at United Way NCA’s seven Community Schools.
This year, there are three ways to participate:
- Make a monetary contribution.
- Purchase and donate a gift from our Amazon Wish List – Coming Soon.
- Volunteer to stuff backpacks full of school supplies for students at our in-person volunteer event.
If you are a corporation interested in sponsoring this event, volunteering with Stuff the Bus or supporting the initiative in another way, please contact us at CSR@uwnca.org.
Stuff the Bus 2025
Our next Stuff the Bus event will take place on January 15, 2025. Volunteer opportunities are now available. For more information contact us at volunteer@uwnca.org.
Sponsors
Stuff the Bus is made possible with the generous support of our sponsors. If you are a corporation interested in sponsoring this event or supporting the initiative monetarily, click here to view sponsorship opportunities or contact us at CSR@uwnca.org.
Our Sponsors include:
Partners
Interested in hosting a corporate volunteer event to benefit Stuff the Bus or want to get your organization involved in another way? Contact us at volunteer@uwnca.org.
What is Stuff the Bus?
United Way NCA’s Stuff the Bus campaign provides backpacks filled with grade-appropriate school supplies to middle school students attending our seven Community Schools in DC and surrounding counties in Northern Virginia and Maryland.
Our next Stuff the Bus event will take place on January 15, 2025.
Stuff the Bus is one of many initiatives that United Way NCA has established to bring together individuals and organizations to help bridge the gap to equitable access to education by providing critical resources for students across the region.
Stuff The Bus Locations
Our Stuff the Bus campaign serves the following seven Community schools:
- Francis C. Hammond Middle School
- Walt Whitman Middle School
- Kelly Miller Middle School
- International High School at Largo
- Buck Lodge Middle School
- A. Mario Loiederman Middle School
- Thurgood G. Marshall Middle School
Stuff the Bus School Supplies That Will be Donated
Your monetary donation will allow us to fill backpacks with the following supplies to give to students in our community:
- 3-inch binders
- 5-tab dividers
- 3-hole pocket folders
- College-ruled notebook paper
- Composition books
- Pens (black or blue)
- Post-it notes
- Pencils
- Highlighters
- Pencil sharpeners
- Erasers
- Pencil pouches
- Colored pencils
- Earbuds with mics
- Quality backpacks
- And more!
Or, check out our Amazon Wishlist to buy what we need directly!
Our Mission
Education is essential to unlocking a student’s potential and achieving financial success. However, for many families in the National Capital Area, the cost of buying school supplies can be a significant burden. By providing backpacks and school supplies, United Way NCA equips students with the essential resources they need and reduce barriers to academic progress, while increasing the economic opportunity of their families.
Through our Stuff the Bus initiative, we are mobilizing the community to provide middle school students in our seven Title I Community Schools throughout the region with backpacks containing grade-appropriate school supplies. This will ensure students have the tools they need to do their homework, take tests, and complete projects to succeed in school. The Community Schools program specifically focuses on the middle school to college/career success pipeline by preparing students in targeted, at-risk middle schools to transition successfully to high school and perform at grade level.
Our 2023 Stuff the Bus campaign was a huge success delivering almost 2,000 filled backpacks to DMV community schools!
With investments from generous supporters like yourself, United Way NCA can continue their efforts to assist ALICE in Loudoun and throughout the region. That means efforts such as supporting food pantries at Sterling Middle School and Park View High School. These pantries provide more than just groceries, but also other household and hygiene products.
It also means volunteer opportunities like partnering with LEF’s Backpack Coalition to pack nearly 1,000 weekend meal kits to be distributed to those in need at 28 Loudoun County schools. The funds also allow United Way NCA to continually assess the needs of the community to identify where resources are needed the most in the region.
The ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) population represents more than 500,000 low- and moderate-income households in our region that earn more than the Federal Poverty Level but less than the basic cost of living for the county/state in which they live. United Way NCA’s ALICE Lives Here initiative aims to reduce disparities in the areas of health, education and economic opportunity and improve outcomes for individuals and families in the National Capital Area.
Are you ready to make a positive impact on a local middle school student? Participate in United Way NCA’s Stuff the Bus campaign for the 2024-25 school year by providing school supplies to middle schools students in DC and surrounding counties in Northern Virginia and Maryland at United Way NCA’s seven Community Schools.
This year, there are three ways to participate:
- Make a monetary contribution.
- Purchase and donate a gift from our Amazon Wish List – Coming Soon.
- Volunteer to stuff backpacks full of school supplies for students at our in-person volunteer event.
If you are a corporation interested in sponsoring this event, volunteering with Stuff the Bus or supporting the initiative in another way, please contact us at CSR@uwnca.org.
Stuff the Bus School Supplies That Will be Donated
Your monetary donation will allow us to fill backpacks with the following supplies to give to students in our community:
- 3-inch binders
- 5-tab dividers
- 3-hole pocket folders
- College-ruled notebook paper
- Composition books
- Pens (black or blue)
- Post-it notes
- Pencils
- Highlighters
- Pencil sharpeners
- Erasers
- Pencil pouches
- Colored pencils
- Earbuds with mics
- Quality backpacks
- And more!
Or, check out our Amazon Wishlist to buy what we need directly!
Stuff the Bus 2025
Our next Stuff the Bus event will take place on January 15, 2025. Volunteer opportunities are now available. For more information contact us at volunteer@uwnca.org.
Sponsors
Stuff the Bus is made possible with the generous support of our sponsors. If you are a corporation interested in sponsoring this event or supporting the initiative monetarily, click here to view sponsorship opportunities or contact us at CSR@uwnca.org.
Our Sponsors include:
Partners
Interested in hosting a corporate volunteer event to benefit Stuff the Bus or want to get your organization involved in another way? Contact us at volunteer@uwnca.org.