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Backpack Project Wins $25,000 Grant

Dunwoody native Zack Letiz's student run nonprofit recently won a $25,000 grant from State Farm Neighborhood Assist.

December 12, 2017, 2:58 pm Edit

Surrounded by his team, local State Farm agents and Dean Benjamin Ayers from the Terry College of Business, Backpack Project founder Zack Leitz is presented a $25,000 check from the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program in Correll Hall at the University of Georgia on Dec. 6.

Surrounded by his team, local State Farm agents and Dean Benjamin Ayers from the Terry College of Business, Backpack Project founder Zack Leitz is presented a $25,000 check from the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program in Correll Hall at the University of Georgia on Dec. 6.

Dunwoody native and University of Georgia junior Zack Leitz’s student-run nonprofit organization, the Backpack Project, was awarded a $25,000 grant by the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program on Wednesday, Dec. 6.

The nonprofit organization Leitz launched in 2015 provides backpacks filled with food, clothes and toiletries to people who are homeless across Georgia. To date, the organization has hand-delivered more than 2,200 backpacks.

Leitz also was recognized as a community hero by the Atlanta Braves in the summer of 2016, earning the organization a $5,000 grant.

The State Farm Neighborhood Assist is a crowd-sourced philanthropic program in which people vote to support their favorite causes. The Backpack Project was one of the top 40 vote-getting causes out of 200 finalists and 2,000 submissions.

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