Other Ways To Help Us

Individuals:

• Coordinate a food drive at your congregation, child’s school, workplace, or with your social or community group
  
  
• Volunteer to pick up donated food barrels and deliver to the Food Pantry
  
  
• Coordinate a weekly or monthly food drive at your workplace, school or congregation focusing on a single food item.
  
  
• Coordinate a food and/or cash drive in your neighborhood or subdivision
  
  
• Coordinate a collection of personal care items
  
  
• Free Will Offering - forfeit your holiday party and give the proceeds to The Food Pantry
  
  
• Grocery Store Gift Card - Collect a grocery store gift card from every couple in your circle of friends and donate it to The Pantry. The cards will be used to purchase much-needed items.
  
  
• Honorariums/Memorials - Recognize the ones you love by sending a gift in their name (birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, job promotions, bar/bat mitzvah, confirmations, etc.) for the purchase of food.  The Food Pantry will send a letter to whomever you’d want to acknowledge your gift in their name.
  
  
• Make the Food Pantry a beneficiary in your will
  
  
• Forfeit your gift exchange and re-direct the funds to donations to The Food Pantry.
  
  
• Turn any special occasion gathering into a food drive by asking guests to bring non-perishable food items.
  
  
• Donate food at your local grocery store.
  
  

Corporations:

• Promote payroll-deduction contributions
  
  
• Make a financial contribution.  Challenge employees to raise the same amount through bake sales, car washes and competitions
  
  
• Sponsor an event at your company, for example:
  
  

• Dress-down days with participants making a monetary or food donation (jeans, packer gear, Hawaiian shirts, etc.)

•  Food of the Month drives (January - Peanut Butter, February - Tuna, etc.)

• Provide matching funds to individual employee’s financial donations
  
  
• Donate in-kind gifts to decrease our operating costs (e.g., printing or copying services, etc.)
  
  
• Distribute plastic or paper bags on Monday for employee/co-workers to take home, fill & return by Friday.
  
  
• Collect Spare Change.  Place a container for spare change in the cafeteria or front office to collect coins and bills.
  

Schools:

• Create competitions between classrooms to raise the most food or funds.  Have fun.  Be creative.  Will the winning team get to toss cream pies at the Principal?
  
  
• Penny Wars - Find large glass jars and have a race to fill up the jars with pennies.  Great idea for even young ones to get involved.