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United Way, Allianz Field Team Up To Give School Supplies To 40,000 Students In Need
Even though the start of the school year will look different for many children, they will still need school supplies.
By Kate Raddatz
August 13, 2020
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Even though the start of the school year will look different for many children, they will still need school supplies, and many families have a tough time affording them.
Enter Action Day 2020, taking place at Allianz Field. It’s the fifth year of Twin Cities United Way putting on this event on to get backpacks with school supplies to 40,000 students experiencing poverty.
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Normally the event has thousand of volunteers on site packing up the bags, but they couldn’t do that this year with the COVID-19 pandemic. So instead, volunteers packed them at home and corporations donated backpacks to bring them to the field, where they got loaded up on trucks to go to more than 80 nonprofits and school districts.
Read more at CBS Minnesota
