Traditional Food Drive
Hosting a food/fund drive is a fun, hands-on way to give back and help solve hunger. We are here to support you.
Getting Started:
- Form your committee and choose a point person.
- Select your dates. Make sure you give yourself time to plan and promote your drive.
- Set a goal so you have something to work toward.
- Register your food drive by having your point person contact our Food Resource Department at 414-931-7400, or send us an email. We will arrange to deliver food collection barrels to you at this time.
- Promote your food/fund drive. Create flyers and posters, use social media, and send a press release to help spread the word.
Food Drive Requirements:
- Collect only non-perishable food items.
- NO glass – Please! Glass can chip and break in barrels.
- DO NOT mix non-food items with food, even if it is sealed. The Health Department requires us to throw away the entire box or barrel of food if there are non-food items in the container.
Make It Fun:
- Create a Competition: Pit classrooms, departments, teams against each other to see who can raise the most food/funds. Offer a pizza party to the winning team as an incentive.
- Jeans Day: Allow employees to wear jeans if the goal is reached.
- Create A Theme: Pick a theme for your food drive or a theme for each day. Examples include Baby Food Day, Pasta Day, PB&J Day, etc. Check our list of most needed items for more theme ideas.
- Wage a Penny War: Give each department, floor, etc. a large glass jar and see who can fill the jar the fastest. Donate the money collected. We can turn $1 into 3 meals.
- Company Matches: Challenge your company to match the pounds of food collected by donating a dollar amount per pound of food.
Keep It Real:
Use your food/fund drive to create awareness of the issue of hunger and encourage people to get involved beyond the food drive.
- Encourage participants to skip one meal and donate the money they would have spent on that meal.
- Ask participants to feed themselves on $15 for the week (the amount some individuals on food assistance receive.)
- Schedule a day for your group to volunteer in our warehouse to see first-hand the impact their contributions will have on the lives of so many in our community.
Wrapping It Up:
When your drive concludes, call the Food Resource Department at 414-931-7400 and we will schedule a time to pick up the barrels of food and funds you’ve collected.We will weigh the food and tabulate a final meals collected number for you to share with your organization or group.
