Kick Off For Kids

Kick Off For Kids mission is to ensure all Central Florida students have the proper nourishment to sustain the focus needed to achieve academic success.

Kick Off For Kids began in 2011 as a quarterly food drive organized by Kavaliro. Sparked by the 60 Minutes documentary on the homeless situation in Central Florida, Kavaliro had the idea to “Fuel The Community” once a quarter by asking for specific food items, such as peanut butter & jelly, to donate to local public school food pantries and their Backpack Programs. The program benefits students wh

o receive free or reduced lunch, or families facing financial difficulties. Each Friday backpacks are filled at the school with nutritious food to be sent home with the students, providing needful families with breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the weekend. The empty backpacks are then returned the following Monday to be refilled. Because the need is so great, often the families given a backpack will rotate each week. As the community got behind the efforts of this simple food drive a few people spearheading the effort began to brainstorm ways to make the program bigger and better to be able to support more schools. In 2013, Kick Off For Kids was born. The name of the charity stemming from the fact the annual event would be held each year on NFL Kick-Off Thursday. Branching off from Kavaliro’s quarterly food drive and becoming it’s own 501c3 organization, Kick Off For Kids hosted it’s 1st Annual event on September 5, 2013 at Culpepper’s in Orlando, Florida. Over 200 people attended the networking event. Through table sponsorships, raffle items, a game of squares, and live auction it raised over $10,000 and 2,000 pounds of food. The proceeds were used to purchase food to support 6 local schools on a quarterly basis throughout the year. The 2nd Annual event was held on September 4, 2014 at Frogger’s in Oviedo, Florida. With over 225 people in attendance, $19,000 was raised allowing the organization to increase the number of schools it supported to 10 Central Florida Public School Food Pantries. The 3rd Annual event was held this fall on September 10, 2015. Rock and Brews in Oviedo was full as close to 200 people came together once again to raise over $20,000 to purchase food donations. An added bonus was the gift of 225 backpacks, donated by another 501c3, Project AVA, to give to the schools. The continuing support for Kick Off For Kids has allowed the organization to support 12 Central Florida Public School Food Pantries and their Backpack Program. To date Kick Off For Kids has donated over 30,000 pounds of food.

04/22/2026

PLEASE NOTE THIS SIGN-UP IS LONG...KEEP SCROLLING THROUGH UNTIL YOU FIND THE SCHOOL YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER FOR.
Thank you for taking the time to help feed our children in need...we could not do this without your support! Please select the time slot(s) you would like to cover while noting the following:

If you want to shop AND deliver to a school, you will need to sign-up for both slots. Find your school, select the shop time slot AND the delivery time slot. If you are shopping and delivering to the same school, just meet me at the shopping time and you can shop, load up your car and be on your merry way!
If you only want to shop for a school, you will meet me at the time to shop and once we have checked out you will leave the food with me, and you are done for the day.
If you want to deliver to a school, meet at the scheduled time and I will have the food ready to go.
Once the sign-up is completed, I will email everyone, like I normally do, putting you in touch with the school and details for the delivery day. Thank you so much and email me with any questions!

VOLUNTEER LINK:

5.4 - 5.8 KOFK Delivery PLEASE NOTE THIS SIGN-UP IS LONG...KEEP SCROLLING THROUGH UNTIL YOU FIND THE SCHOOL YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER FOR. Thank you for taking the time to help feed our children in need...we could not do this without your support! Please select the time slot(s) you would like to cover while noting the fo...

02/16/2026

2.23 - 2.27 KOFK Delivery PLEASE NOTE THIS SIGN-UP IS LONG...KEEP SCROLLING THROUGH UNTIL YOU FIND THE SCHOOL YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER FOR. Thank you for taking the time to help feed our children in need...we could not do this without your support! Please select the time slot(s) you would like to cover while noting the fo...

12/11/2025

With the help of our wonderful village we were able to supply 48 schools with food for their pantries! A special shout out to Cole Engineering Services, Inc. - CESI, a By Light Company for adopting a school for an entire year!

12/04/2025

Day 4 of getting food out to our schools! Thank you Jeremiah's Italian Ice and Jeremiah's Italian Ice for sponsoring several of those schools today 😀

12/03/2025

More food went out today! Thank you FAIRWINDS Credit Union for sponsoring so many of our schools ☺️

12/03/2025

WE DID IT! We raised $515 so with all 4 donation match promises that gives us a grand total of $2,515 to use on our next delivery. These extra funds will allow us to help the additional schools on our waiting list. Thank you SO MUCH!

12/02/2025

Rain or shine we make sure the food gets to our kids! Thank you to our volunteers that battled the bad weather to ensure the schools scheduled for today got their deliveries. A big thank you to CogNet for sponsoring several of the schools today 😀

Donate - Kick Off For Kids Benefiting Central Florida Public School Pantries

12/02/2025

IT'S GIVING TUESDAY! 🥰 In addition to the generous $500 match presented by the Sacher Corporation and Sheehan family, we have had 2 more supports reach out and offer the same donation! Thank you to John Sansoucle & Sasha Fortna and Dave Peckham for being such an amazing part of our villiage!

Let's raise that $500 today and make it $2,500! Please consider giving even $5 to help us reach our goal at https://kickoffforkidsorlando.com/donate/.

Thank you ❤️

Donate - Kick Off For Kids Benefiting Central Florida Public School Pantries Benefiting students in Central Florida Schools who receive free or reduced lunch, or families facing financial difficulties.

12/01/2025

A HUGE thank you to Auto Solutions Orlando for sponsoring many of today's deliveries! We are so grateful for you 😀

11/25/2025

One week away from Giving Tuesday and our $500 match from two amazing sponsors! 🫶

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