Parish Episcopal's Lower School campus is doing its part to help the school collect 10,000 jars of peanut butter for "Oprah's Big Give, Operation North Texas."

Parish's pre-kindergarten through second graders brought sacks and sacks filled with hundreds of jars of peanut butter that were collected during a designated morning carpool line in early April. The students also bring jars to school daily.

Parish is trying to hit its goal by the April 20 live broadcast of the "Big Give" when the jars will be sent to the North Texas Food Bank.

"We're trying to get as many as we can," Parish director of community services Karen O'Rear said. "And then we'll worry about counting them. We have peanut butter jars stacked all over school."

Parish was one of 10 local organizations selected by the North Texas Food Bank to be a part of the project.

Oprah's popular reality TV show and ABC are distributing a total of $1 million in $10,000 increments to ABC affiliates to challenge cities to leverage the cash to better their communities. The rules of the game are to choose a local nonprofit agency to work through.

Dallas affiliate WFAA Channel 8 chose the North Texas Food Bank, specifically the Food 4 Kids program as the beneficiary organization. The NTFB’s Food 4 Kids program supplies school-aged children with nutritious, kid-friendly food designed to fill a backpack and feed them over the weekend during the school year.

"We've worked with the Food Bank for 26 years," O'Rear said. "And we're really honored they asked us to be a part of this."