Corporate Partners

 

Operation Backpack traces its roots to Volunteers of America’s Back-to-School drive, which began in 1999 as a small effort to collect school supplies for the children in our shelters. In 2002, the campaign was reorganized and rebranded as Operation Backpack to reflect its ambitious, new goal: to give every child in the New York City shelter system a new backpack filled with exactly the supplies they needed for their specific grade in school to every child who needs one. With the help of our partners, in 2012, we were able to collect and distribute 13,500 new, filled backpacks.

On behalf of the children we serve, we thank the 2012 Operation Backpack partners:
  
   

SPONSORS:

Frank Crystal & Company

Duane Reade

Warnaco

FedEx

Time Warner Cable

Van Wagner

NewsCorp

Weeks Lerman

Wendy's

CORPORATE PARTNERS:

1251 Americas Associates Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman
650 Fifth Avenue Ladas & Parry
AKRF, Inc. Lamb Financial Group
ALA NYC Latham  & Watkins
Alexander Interactive Lenox Advisors
Allen & Overy LLP Linklaters LLP
Alliance Bernstein Mandarin Oriental
Allianz Group Manhattan Mortgage
Allstate Marriott Hotels
Amalgamated Family of Companies Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
AAAA Marubeni America Corporation
American Century Investments McCann
Andaz McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
Apollo Management McKissack & McKissack
Avenue of the Americas Association Merkley+Partners
Bank Leumi USA Millenium Broadway Hotel
Bank of America Moet Hennessy USA
Barclays Momentum Worldwide
Brooklyn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Monster
CDM Group MTV Networks
Chadbourne & Parke LLP National Financial Partners
Citigroup NBC Universal
Citi Habitats Novotel New York City
Coach New York Palace Hotel
Colgate Palmolive NY1
College Board NYSE Euronext
Conductor OLA Consulting Engineers, PC
Cornerstone Research Olshan
Credit Suisse O'Melveny & Myers
Crowne Plaza Times Square One Voice Goes a Long Way
Cushman and Wakefield Our Lady of Lourdes Parish
Dechert LLP Oxford University Press
Deloitte. Peninsula Hotel
Diageo Pierre Hotel
Doing Small Miracles for Others Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Doremus PR Newswire
Durst Organization PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Empire State Development Corporation Proclivity Media
Everyday Health Professional Television Network
Experian Random House
Fidessa RF Binder
Financial Technologies Forum LLC Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
FINRA Ritz-Carlton New York
Forest Laboratories The Rockefeller Group
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Rolex Watch USA, Inc.
Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman Rubenstein Associates
GAM USA, Inc. RXR Realty
Gap Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney
Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co. LLC Select Equity Group
Goodwin Procter Sesame Workshop
Google Simon and Schuster
Grand Hyatt New York Siwy
Greater Talent Network Standard and Poor's
Hall Capital Starwood Hotels New York
Harper Collins Sullivan & Cromwell
Harrison & Star Swiss Re
Harvard Club Taylor & Francis Group
Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP Taylor Strategy
Hawkins International PR The St. Regis New York
Heidrick & Struggles TOWN Residential
Help/PSI Trump International
Heyman Associates United Healthcare Services, Inc.
Hilton New York Unity of NY
Holiday Inn Express - Wall Street Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz
Horizon Media Inc. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
Hunter College High School Waldorf-Astoria
Hunton & Williams LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Huron Consulting Group Wellcare
Initiative Media White & Case LLP
Instinet, LLC William Morris Entertainment (WME)
Ion Media Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
IPRO Wood Mackenzie
JCC WP Carey
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher Yahoo!
JPMorgan Chase Yorio Law Group
Zenith Optimedia