Summer is winding down, which for most parents of school-age children, means the start of a new school year. For some families, the start of a new school year involves a trip to the local store to purchase fresh school supplies. For others, buying essential school supplies is not within budget, putting their children at a disadvantage against their peers.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why Family Giving Tree<\/a> launched the Back-to-School Drive in 1995 to help close the educational gap for underserved K-12 students. Palo Alto Networks employees recently participated in the 21st<\/sup> annual Back-to-School Drive by donating more than a hundred backpacks and school supplies, giving monetary donations, and spending the morning preparing backpacks for children.<\/p>\n Learn more about how you can participate in the Family Giving Tree\u2019s Back-to-School Drive<\/a> and other opportunities for getting involved<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer is winding down, which for most parents of school-age children, means the start of a new school year. For some families, the start of a new school year involves a trip …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,1506],"tags":[2548,2545],"coauthors":[1791],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-people-of-palo-alto-networks","tag-back-to-school","tag-family-giving-tree"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18547,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Want to learn how you can help?<\/h3>\n