Ideas to Enhance Your Food Drive

• Establish a committee to determine the type, theme, dates and duration of your food drive.
• Educate participants about the hunger issue and the need for their help.
• Establish a goal for your drive.
• Divide your organization by department, floor, grade, etc. and choose a food drive leader for each.
• Publicize the event through posters, flyers, memos, e-mail, etc.
• Hold competition between departments and groups to see which can collect the most goods.
• Give prizes for the most food collected.
• Establish a committee to decorate your food collection boxes.
• Publicize a “suggested food donation” list on your flyers.
• Display the food you have gathered, it visibly encourages others to give.
• Update people on the progress of the food drive through memos, newsletters, posters etc.
• Designate a special employee day for food collection.
• Hold an event, meeting, party where the admission is a can of food.
• Provide people with a bag to fill with food and return.
• Solicit the help of local civic clubs, services organizations and merchants.
• Have your local government issue a proclamation to promote the food drive.
• See if your company will in some way match your efforts.
• Hold a car wash where the price of a wash is a food donation.
• Use a local celebrity, if available, as campaign spokesperson.
• Work with your local media. Publicize the event. Send press releases.
• Share your ideas with the foodbank so that we can share them with others.
• You are doing important work. Your efforts will make a difference. Remind yourself and others: Have Fun!