Working together to fight hunger.
Food and cash drives are a great way for work teams, companies, groups of friends, and places of worship to take action and help fight hunger in our community. They also provide nutritious food while raising awareness of hunger issues in our communities. Here are some ways for you to get involved:
HOST A CASH DRIVE
Collect funds for The Food Group. By donating money, you allow us to use the benefits of bulk purchasing and get more bang for your buck! There are lots of creative ways to do this, some ideas are found here. We do have cardboard money collection boxes available for pick up at our warehouse. Let us know if you’re having a drive, by emailing [email protected]
HOST A VIRTUAL FOOD DRIVE
Virtual food drives are online fund-raising campaigns that still have the exciting hands-on feel of a canned food drive, and provide another efficient way for you and your organization to help end hunger. With the point and click of a mouse, you can choose the type and quantity of food products you wish to donate.
Benefits of a Virtual Food Drive:
- Eliminates the chance food may come in that is unusable.
- No heavy boxes of food to carry and deliver.
- Your donation goes further. The food is shipped directly to our warehouse via a third party company which means there are no overhead costs such as drivers, fuel, etc.
- Our virtual food drive tool is fully customizable for your company, group, or school, so you can have the same feeling of team effort as you would with a canned food drive.
- We create the website for you!
Get started by emailing [email protected]
HOST A PHYSICAL FOOD DRIVE
This opportunity allows you to see all the food collected! Our toolkit will provide you with all the information you need to get started. To help ensure the success of your food drive, we can support you with materials & flyers to generate participation in your event-examples are found in the toolkit. Please note: Each trip we take to pick up food costs money that off-sets the effort of your collection, therefore for drives collecting less than 500 pounds, we ask that you deliver food collected directly to our warehouse (open M-F, 9am-5pm) or a member agency we work with found HERE.
For Food drives aiming to collect less than 500 pounds (1-3 blue barrels) we encourage the following:
- Check our most wanted items and FCD toolkit
- Email [email protected] and let us know you are hosting a Food Drive in our name, please include name, contact information and dates of your Food Drive.
- Check out our promotional tools available for your Food Drive in our FCD toolkit. Email [email protected] for these materials.
- Utilize boxes you have on hand to collect food, or ask participants to bring food in bags.
- Food can be delivered to our warehouse M-F, 9am-5pm, if you call 763-450-3869 we’ll be happy to meet you outside and help you unload.
- If your small Food Drive turned out to be bigger than expected (500 + pounds or about 800 + cans), give us a call 763-450-3869 to see if we can arrange a food donation pick up
For food drives aiming to collect 500 pounds (4 or more blue barrels) we encourage the following:
- Check our most wanted items and FCD toolkit
- Email [email protected] and let us know you are hosting a Food Drive in our name, please include name, contact information and dates of your Food Drive.
- Check out our promotional tools available for your Food Drive in our FCD toolkit. Email [email protected] for these materials
- If your Food Drive will be collecting more than 500 pounds of food or at least 4 blue barrels full we offer complimentary barrel delivery and pickup, should you need this service, please fill out the Food Drive registration form, HERE.
After donations are collected, we will let you know how many pounds were collected and meals provided. Then CELEBRATE your impact! Feeding a community, takes a community. Thank you for your participation in the fight against hunger.
For more information please email: [email protected]