Just Bag It

Have participants bring in grocery bags. Make a list of grocery items needed for the Food Bank and attach the list to the bags. Send the bags home with each participant for them to distribute in their neighborhood. On the grocery list attached to the bag include a pick-up date and ask neighbors to leave their full bag by the front door for pick-up on that date. This has been a very successful way to drive for food in the past!

Sack Pack Food Drive

This program provides school age children that are identified as needing food with a bag full of non-perishable foods for the weekend. Simply make a list of what a typical pack would hold and ask each person in your organization to bring in each item on the list: 1 milk and cereal bar or granola bar, 1-package toaster pastries, 1 can pop-top Beans ‘n Franks, 1 heat and serve pasta meal, 1 individual fruit cup with pop-top or peel off top, 1 box raisins or 1 apple, 2 packages crackers ‘n cheese or crackers ‘n peanut butter, 2 boxed juice drinks.

Mass E-mails

Send a company-wide email out asking everyone to bring their lunch the following day and donate the money they would have spent eating lunch out. Provide a donation container at the entrance of your business, in the break room and at the receptionist desk. A few dollars per person from a company with a good handful of employees can really add up. The only work for you…an email and placing/ picking up the donation containers!