Nick Cannon Teams Up with Office Depot to Donate 5000 Sackpacks to LA School Kids

Entertainment businessman, Nick Cannon partners up with the Office Depot Foundation to help out some deserving Los Angele-area school kids. 

via press release…

To help deserving children like these start school on the right foot, the Office Depot Foundation is preparing to donate 5,000 colorful new sackpacks containing essential school supplies to nonprofit organizations, schools and agencies in the Los Angeles area. The Foundation – the independent charitable giving arm of Office Depot® (NYSE:ODP) – will make the donations during a special Back-to-School Celebration beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 25 (7/25) at the Office Depot store located at 401 E. 2nd St. in Los Angeles.

For the third year in a row, Nick Cannon – the award-winning actor, comedian, host of “America’s Got Talent” – will be the special guest for the Foundation’s Back-to-School Celebration and will personally give sackpacks to the children who attend. Cannon also will participate in the Office Depot Foundation’s sackpack donation events in Fort Lauderdale, San Diego and New York City this summer.

In 2014, the Foundation will donate 350,000 sackpacks to children in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and a number of other countries through its National Backpack Program, which is now in its 14th year. During the past seven years alone, this award-winning initiative has made a difference to more than 47,000 Los Angeles-area kids.

By the end of this year, Office Depot and the Office Depot Foundation will have given away more than 3.3 million backpacks and sackpacks since the National Backpack Program began in 2001.

The sackpacks contain a zippered pouch containing a pen, pencil, pencil sharpener, eraser, six-inch ruler and four crayons.

To learn more about the Back-to-School sackpack campaign, go to www.facebook.com/officedepotfoundation.

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