Family Giving Program

The Lansing Area Chamber helps Lansing families in need during the beginning of the school year and at the Holiday Season. 

We do this by purchasing backpacks and filling them with school supplies.  We then drop off equal numbers of backpacks to the schools in August.  Each year we purchase however many our fundraising allows.

In November we work closely with each school counselor to help one family from each school during the holidays.
This program has total anonymity and we are only given information such as age, gender, sizes, and interests, of the child(ren).

The Chamber uses our donations to purchase everything we possibly can for each child which include clothes, toys, shoes, and food for the family. Those items are then returned to the school counselors and they get them to the families.

We have fundraisers to raise money for the program which include our Pancake Breakfast with the Easter Bunny and Pancake Breakfast with Santa both sponsored by the Lansing Copper Muggers. All proceeds go to the Family Giving Program.  At most of our events we will do a 50/50 and the money raised goes to Family Giving.
We also take donations from individuals, no donation is too small.