Making Your Food Drive FUN!!
- Develop a name or theme for your drive.
- Sponsor a casual day "Beans for Jeans."
- Use donation incentives: extra break, prizes, etc.
- Consider having a party and use canned food for admission.
- Use payroll stuffers or email to remind employees about the drive.
- Allow employees to take a payroll deduction and donate directly to the Food Bank.
- Skip lunch and donate what you would have spent to the Food Bank.
- Challenge another department, building, or business to hold a food drive.
- Have a pizza party for the winning team.
- Have a donation box decoration competition.
- Have a coin drive instead of a food drive, then see what group can collect the most money.
- Build a can structure.
- Give awards for the oddest food item collected or the most pounds collected by one person.
- Encourage your customers or vendors to participate.
- Hold a hunger walk.
- Set your goal. If you exceed it, your boss must color her/his hair pink, shave his beard, or wear tacky clothes to work.
- Have daily donation themes such as "Macaroni Mondays,""Tuna Tuesdays," etc.
Making Your Food Drive FUN!!
- Develop a name or theme for your drive.
- Sponsor a casual day "Beans for Jeans."
- Use donation incentives: extra break, prizes, etc.
- Consider having a party and use canned food for admission.
- Use payroll stuffers or email to remind employees about the drive.
- Allow employees to take a payroll deduction and donate directly to the Food Bank.
- Skip lunch and donate what you would have spent to the Food Bank.
- Challenge another department, building, or business to hold a food drive.
- Have a pizza party for the winning team.
- Have a donation box decoration competition.
- Have a coin drive instead of a food drive, then see what group can collect the most money.
- Build a can structure.
- Give awards for the oddest food item collected or the most pounds collected by one person.
- Encourage your customers or vendors to participate.
- Hold a hunger walk.
- Set your goal. If you exceed it, your boss must color her/his hair pink, shave his beard, or wear tacky clothes to work.
- Have daily donation themes such as "Macaroni Mondays,""Tuna Tuesdays," etc.
Lowcountry Food Bank on CNN
Lowcountry Food Bank Executive Director, D. Jermaine Husser shared on CNN Newsroom with Heidi Collins that people in our community were simply looking for "hope" in the form of food. Husser, along with three other spokespeople representing Foodbanks around the country, was part of a panel discussion on the state of hunger in our nation.Watch Video>>>>
The Farmer's Table
This September, we invite you to reconnect with the source of your food, and to honor the talented farmers, food artisans, and chefs that contribute to the growing culinary reputation and local food community of Beaufort. Led by Chef Jim Spratling, The Farmer's Table supper features a 3 course collaborative menu that is seasonal and diverse..... more>>>>
Bon Appetit-June eNewsletter
Click here to view the Lowcountry Food Bank's July Bon Appetit eNewsletter. To sign up to receive our monthy Bon Appetit, please contact the Lowcountry Food Bank's Development Associate, Margaret Williamson
