As families across Alabama begin checking off back-to-school shopping lists, Full Moon Bar-B-Que is once again inviting the community to help make the start of the school year a little brighter for children in need.
Nominations are now open for the restaurant’s seventh annual Backpack Blessings program, an initiative that provides students across the state with fully stocked backpacks filled with school supplies and gift cards. This year, the program is expanding to serve 500 children, making it the largest Backpack Blessings campaign to date.
Helping students start the school year with confidence
Each selected child will receive a Nike backpack valued at more than $200 and filled with classroom essentials, including notebooks, folders, crayons, pencils, pens, markers, highlighters, a Full Moon Bar-B-Que color-changing water bottle, a $25 Walmart gift card, and a $25 Full Moon Bar-B-Que gift card.
Since the program launched in 2020, Backpack Blessings has provided more than 1,400 backpacks to children and families across Alabama, representing a community investment of more than $325,000. What began as a simple effort to help students prepare for the classroom has grown into one of the restaurant’s most meaningful annual traditions…