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“BIG” Distribution & Activity Day Event – Broadway Armory Park
Back 2 School ’18 Distribution Summary
• Kits Distributed: 10,000
• Date: August 8
• Location: 5917 N Broadway, Chicago
Our biggest event of the year proved to be another huge success. For the sixth year in a row we held the event at Broadway Armory Park in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. Over 100 volunteers and staff members unloaded and sorted semi-trucks of our signature Back 2 School kits in the morning. Then, in the afternoon, the kits were loaded into vans, buses, and trucks to head off to 50 Chicagoland YMCA’s (as well as a couple other community partners) for distribution to children from low-income families. In total, 10,000 kits were distributed.
While volunteers and staff worked on the distribution of supplies, we hosted over 300 children from several area organizations including; YMCA’s, Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago, Vietnamese Association of Illinois, Camp of Dreams and Centro Romero for four hours of activities designed to entertain, educate and prepare them to back to school. Activities included aerobics led by the Chicago Park District, science experiments demonstration by Wright College students, arts & crafts hosted by Kits for Kidz, an exotic petting zoo, a financial literacy class taught by Republic Bank employees and giant board games courtesy of the David L. Hoyt Education Foundation.
Local media coverage included; NBC5, WGN-TV, CBS2, ABC7 and FOX32, WBBM- FM & WGN-AM.
Broadway Armory Park Distribution Logistics August 8 Broadway Armory Park
5917 N Broadway Street, 8:00am-5:00pm
• Four 60’ semi-trucks
• 100 volunteers
• 300+ kids from local YMCA’s, Boys & Girls Clubs, Vietnamese Assoc. of IL,
Camp of Dreams and Centro Romero
• 10,000 school supply kits (7,500 delivered to 50+ YMCA locations in Northern
Illinois) plus Vietnamese Association, Chicago Park District, and Boys & Girls
Clubs of Chicago
• 300,000+ total free school supplies


































































































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