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Operation Backpack Through the Years

• You're never too young to volunteer
• Warnaco rings the bell at the NYSE
• Volunteers at Sort Week
• Trump International volunteers, 2008
• Supplies when we needed them
• Starbucks volunteers 2003
• Spring Awakening cast members with Paige Davis
• Sorting at the Brandon
• Sorting at Riverbank 2003
• Sort Day 2006
• Scott Jackman, back again in 2007!
• Santwan & Ifran 2003
• Ringing the Closing Bell at the NYSE
• Paige Davis, Rachel Weinstein & Patrick Page
• VOA friends & family volunteer
• Nina Scerbo, part of the "friends & family" posse
• Ginny Martinez of FedEx organizes the deliveries 2008
• Marubeni Itochi Steel volunteers
• Maddie Weinstein & Logan Marshall
• Lots of backpacks!
• Leon Hall joins the effort
• Resorting to plastic bags when we ran out of backpacks
• Kate Kearns and Maddie Weinstein
• Just checking, making sure everything's here!
• Gerry Cunningham, Christine Cunningham & friend
• FedEx group of volunteers
• The FedEx crew is indefatigable
• Drew Steininger 2006
• Drew & Zoe unloading van
• Donating Backpacks
• Crayons
• Citi Habitats donates sort space AND volunteers
• Another volunteer from Citi Habitats
• Citi Habitats volunteer
• Citi Habitats
• Andrea Ancel and Fedex volunteer
• American Express volunteers
• 1st graders

Inside This Section

• Operation Backpack 2011 Photo Gallery
• Bowl to Give Back 2011 Photo Gallery
• A New York Winter's Eve 2010
• Birthday Wishes
• River House Raft Race 2010
• Operation Backpack Through the Years

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