11 Ideas for a Food Drive

- Partner up: Ask a local grocery store if you can setup a drive at the store. Have friends give out information about the collection as people go in so they can buy something extra. On the way out, collect the donations.
- Clean Up With Competition: Setup a competition between grades or homerooms and your school (or even sections of your orchestra) to see who can collect the most food. The winner gets bragging rights.
- Host a Movie Night: Charge a food item as the admission price. Take it a step further: ask a local movie theater to host it. Now you can get hundreds of people & hundreds of cans of food!
- Have a Pajama/Dress Down Day: Petition your Principal. Set a goal. (Like, if half of the students bring in food, you get to dress down.)
- Got an Event Coming Up? Holiday party or concert? Big basketball game? Make a food item the price of admission.
- Create a Raffle! Get great prizes donated. Price of a raffle ticket? Duh, an item of food.
- Get Your Teachers Involve: Columbus High School in Iowa did it. They put teachers on the school roof on a drizzly, cold day. (Seriously!) Each donated item added a minute of lock-up time. The result? Over 6 hours on the roof!
- Hot Chocolate Stand: Pick a good location and get fun people to work it. Pick a good time—like right in front of school in the morning or in front of the grocery store on a Saturday. Advertise it with posters a few days before: “Want some hot cocoa? It’ll cost you a can of food!” Give extra marshmallows to people who give more.
- Compete in Your Neighborhood: Pick a weekend day and have groups of friends compete to see how much food they can collect in their neighborhood in 2 hours. You’ll canvas your whole town in no time and probably get a good work-out too.
- Theme Days: Make a theme for each day of the week & tell people to bring in cans that fit the theme, like Protein Monday or Carb Friday.
- Rack Leaves or Shovel Snow: If you happen to live in one of the more brisk states, offer neighbors to help with yard work in exchange for food donations.
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The financial crisis is causing a growing number of middle class working families to seek food assistance.

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