The 2017-2018 school year has begun and we are rapidly receiving applications for the Nourish the Need Food Backpack Program. When we started this program in 2014, data suggested that the students we targeted were in need of food. In August 2017, the United Way of Greater Atlanta confirmed that 1.3 million children living in the Atlanta 13-county region, almost half a million children live in communities with low to very low child well-being. The United Way of Atlanta child