Backpacks for the Homeless

Backpacks for the Homeless is a 501(c)(3) effort with the Colleyville Connection Group. Each year, our community packs and delivers backpacks filled with blankets, warm clothing and toiletries to the MHMR homeless clinic in Fort Worth. Join us this year by donating items, giving online or volunteering.

Donations List

We're collecting 1,000 of each. Please give new items, individually packaged.

  • Empty backpacks

  • Blankets

  • Warm scarves

  • Warm hats

  • Warm gloves

  • Warm socks

  • Soaps

  • Deodorants

  • Toothbrushes

  • Toothpastes

  • Kleenex packets

  • Hair brushes/combs

  • Activity/coloring books, playing cards

  • Pens/markers

Give Online

Monetary donations are accepted year-round.

Donate through PayPal: PayPal.Me/backpacksHomeless

Checks made out to Backpacks for the Homeless are also accepted.

Questions?
817-952-9000 · [email protected]

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2026 Event Flyer

Share the flyer with friends, neighbors and coworkers. Every donation helps someone stay warm this winter.

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We are a 5013c organization. We collect donations all year round until October 31st. This year our "packing party" is November 3rd at 5:30 pm at our office. Then we have volunteers meet at our office November 4th to deliver the backpacks to MHMR in Fort Worth.
 
 
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Volunteers pack blue backpacks with supplies, gathered around colorful baskets indoors.
Two women stand behind a large pile of colorful backpacks prepared for donation.
Four adults pose with pink and black backpacks.
Two adults sit among colorful backpacks collected for a homeless outreach effort.
Adults and children pose on the steps outside the Sophie Tel Diaz Real Estate office.
Six volunteers pose with backpacks beside stacks of donated supplies.
Community volunteers pose with baskets of donated supplies during a backpack drive.
Sophie Tel Diaz in a black sleeveless top, pictured in a large black-and-white portrait.
2019 Colleyville Charm Backpacks for the Homeless Article
 
Every drop in the bucket counts’: Colleyville real estate broker helps homeless

Contact Details

Sophie Tel Diaz Real Estate

Phone

(817) 952-9000

Email

[email protected]

Address

28 Village Lane, #100 Colleyville, TX 76034

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