ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - As back-to-school shopping ramps up, parents cut back on spending thanks to a free backpack giveaway on Rockford’s south side. On Thursday, Americans for Prosperity ...

Helping make the summer-to-school transition easier is the Bullard Family Foundation. Over the weekend, 500 volunteers spent their Saturday preparing backpacks and school supplies to hand out to ...

Children will also choose their own back-to-school outfit and receive brand-new backpacks full of school supplies, as well as camp T-shirts. “They love it,” Guarton says. “It gets them ...

Church volunteers handed out 800 free backpacks filled with school supplies to children ages 3 to 14 years old in preparation for the start of the school year. Attendees enjoyed free food ...

The students, members of the school’s Model United Nations ... shows the contents of a backpack members of Prep’s Model United Nations program packed to distribute to those in need at the ...