Minnesota Timberwolves’ Post

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So I'm John Wilker, President and CEO at Greater Twin Cities United Way. So Action Day is Greater Twin Cities United Way's biggest volunteer event of the year, where we bring the community together to pack backpacks filled with school supplies for students getting ready to go back to school. Because we know one in 10 kids will go back to school without the school supplies they need. So today, at the end of the day, we will unpack 47,000 backpacks to distribute through our nonprofit partners and school districts to students and families who need them. I wish them a good school year. So I'm going to. I'm gonna hide this and see who's going to get it. That is awesome. So are you. Well, sports teams, you know, play an important part in our community. They, they support our community. People like to rally around sports teams. It just really gives it a fun, energetic theme. So we're really grateful that for all nine years of Action Day, we have been working with all of our professional sports teams to make it a success. It's a privilege to be hosting this event for the second time. Thinking John, from where we started to where we are today and even where we're going, 1500 plus volunteers 45,000, that's now 47,000, which is the, the goal of what we hope to achieve relative to, to packing supplies and backpacks. It's joyful, it's energetic and it's exciting to know like all this effort is going in just to like make the difference in the day of a young person. And so those small little things really go a long way and it's exciting to see.