We had a scout that put out boxes at the schools in our district the last week or two of school. He collected notebooks, markers, crayons, pencil, ... that otherwise might have gone into the garbage dumpster. He then organized a night to sort through all the items. He also had the sewing group at his church sew back packs.
Then one Saturday, he had us basically go down an assembly line and put specific numbers of each item in the bag. They were sent to Haiti for school kits for the children.