The Town Pump Charitable Foundation is accepting grant applications for the Meals for Backpacks program

The Town Pump Charitable Foundation is accepting grant applications for the 2024 “Meals for Backpacks” program, which supports schools, food banks and service organizations that provide weekend meal programs for Montana school children.

Organizations can apply for the grants at www.townpumpfoundation.com/backpacks through Sept. 29. Grants will be awarded in mid-October.

Often, children in Montana go hungry on the weekends. It is estimated that one in six Montana children live in homes that struggle to keep food on the table.

The Foundation’s goal this year is to fund over 100,000 weekend meal...