How to Start a Food Drive
Food drives are a good charity event that can be organized for stocking local food banks or helping communities struck by disasters. These events can be good opportunities for volunteers. Advertising these types of events is important to gain as much interest and involvement as possible and to make the event a success. Local food banks are in constant need of donations to help support lower income families or families struck with disasters such as floods or fires.
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Things You'll Need
- Charity organization contact information
- Volunteers
- Donation drop-off containers
- Transportation truck
Instructions
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Canned foods are a good donation for food drives because they have a long shelf life. Determine the purpose for the food drive that you want to organize. This helps determine what type of volunteers you want to recruit and how you will advertise the event.
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Contact information for donation organizations can be located online. Contact the organization that the donations and proceeds will benefit. The organization can usually tell you what they are in most need of and possibly supply some ideas for volunteers and where donations can be dropped off.
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Many print newspapers also add their classifieds to their online listings. Designing an advertising strategy for the food drive is critical to get the word out. Contact local schools and corporations to tell them about your event and ask for any involvement they can contribute such as letting you set up bins for food drop offs and informing employees or students of the food drive. Advertising in the local newspapers, local radio stations and free online classified ads will help spread the word of your event.
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An unused section of a large shopping parking lot can be a good drop-off location. Find a centralized and dedicated drop-off location for donations.
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A truck can deliver the donations after the event. Rent trucks for transportation of the donations and gather as many volunteers as you will need for different shifts for the dates of the food drive. If you have set up mobile drop-off locations, you will need volunteers to go to these locations and pick up all potential donations.
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Comments
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I thought this would be easy. Come to find out its crazy how many stores/schools don't want to help. We contacted a few orginizations to try and piggy back on thier drive and help out. Flat out NO!
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I wonder how many people sit around pointing fingers instead of offering a hand?
