How to Get Power Packs

If you’d like your child to receive power packs please contact their school. See participating schools below.

Plan a P3 Stuffing Event

Groups and individuals can contribute by assembling and delivering weekend food packs for elementary school students.

Volunteer as a group activity or as an individual by purchasing food or assembling packs.

Food drives conducted by businesses, associations, faith-based organizations, schools, and other groups are critically important as we work to feed our neighborhood children in need.

For more information on how to host a P3 food drive and packing event, click the orange button to view our P3 Planning Kit.

We have occasional opportunities to stuff Power Packs as a group in the Food for Others warehouse. Email volunteer@foodforothers.org to request a date.

P3 Planning Kit

How to put a pack together

Use a 2 gallon size Ziploc Bag. Include items that are shelf-stable, kid-friendly and single-serving sized. Please do not include applesauce cups with tinfoil lids.

Each pack must include: 2 breakfast items, 2 lunch items, 2 dinner items, 2 snacks and 2 drinks.

HELP US MAKE THESE PACKS AS NUTRITIOUS AS POSSIBLE.

What's in a Power Pack?

Breakfast

Oatmeal Packets
Cereal (Individual Sizes)
Granola Bars
Nutri Grain Bars

Lunch/ Dinner

Chili Cups
Mac & Cheese Cups (single-serving)
Tuna/ Chicken Salad Kits with Crackers
Chef Boyardee, Ravioli

Snacks

Fruit Cups (in juice NOT syrup)
Cheese & Crackers
Granola Bars
Fruit Snacks, Dried Fruits

Drinks

100% Fruit Juice
Capri Sun Juice Boxes
Shelf-stable Milk

Please DO NOT Include:

Peanut butter or items that include peanut butter, candy, Pop-tarts, Vienna sausages, glass containers, high sugar items, apple sauce cups with tinfoil lids or bottled water.

Power Pack Program (P3)

Food for Others Power Pack Program (P3) sends weekend backpack meals home with students who do not get enough food on the weekends without their school-provided meals. The students tend to be on the free and reduced meals program during the week and have limited access to food over the weekend.

The Power Pack Program provides weekend meals to roughly 3,800 students at 44 Fairfax County schools each week during the school year. The weekend meal pack, which contains two items each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus two snacks and two drinks, helps alleviate a child’s hunger and allows them to come to school on Monday morning fed, focused, and ready to learn.