Food drive?

Question

What's the best way I can do my own food drive and get people to donate? Where could I give the food to also after I earned enough? I live in Washington State and I just want to give it to a place where people are way less fortunate. Any ideas? Where'd be the best place to donate it to?

Answer 1

Starting at the end bec you need to know where it is going before you ask ppl to give go to http://www.secondharvest.com and look on left of page.  You'll see a place to put ion your zip and find the foodbank nearest you.   A foodbank is like a wholesale place where local food pantries and minisitries get food to give away.  You can give to the foodbank itself or better (in my opinion) ask for a list of food pantries and ministries in your immediate area, call or visit 2 or 3 and check out their need, how they treat people,etc.  

Best food drive I have seen was when a few young people (in this case a scout troop but could have been any youth group) got permission to set up a table outside a grocery store wth posters etc. on a Sat.  AM  and asked ppl to donate food or money.   They got LOTS!   Another time a small school group decided to do extra chores to earn money to help people in need have food.  Kids earned and parents, grandparents neighbors also gave food.   You could also ask a skate place or pizza place to offer a discount to anyone bringing a can of food to donate; those work well.  Another possibility is a concert or battle of the bands with admission as 1-2 cans of food.