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HAAM Food Drive

Getting Started . Cover the Basics It's essential that we know about your plans before you start your drive. Choose a coordinator to lead your drive.Determine a way to make your drive educational and engaging for everyone involved.Choose dates to start and end your food drive.Choose a type of container in which to collect your donated goods (boxes, brown grocery sacks). Keep in mind that filled boxes can become heavy..

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HAAM Food Drive

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    1. HAAM Food Drive We invite you to use your creative skills and knowledge to organize a food drive for your church, school, community group, or organization.

    2. Getting Started Cover the Basics It’s essential that we know about your plans before you start your drive. Choose a coordinator to lead your drive. Determine a way to make your drive educational and engaging for everyone involved. Choose dates to start and end your food drive. Choose a type of container in which to collect your donated goods (boxes, brown grocery sacks). Keep in mind that filled boxes can become heavy.

    3. Goals

    4. Choose A Theme Winter: Spread The Cheer This Time Of Year Thanksgiving: Give Food, Share the Bounty Halloween: Take the Mystery out of Giving Summer: Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation Spring: Hunt for Solutions to Hunger Valentines: Giving from the Heart

    5. Making Your Food Drive FUN!!!! Have a Kick-Off event and make the admission price food items. Challenge other departments, churches, community organizations or classes to see who can raise the most food or dollars. Mark your progress through visuals like a thermometer or talley board. Organize food related scavenger hunts. Decorating lunch sacks will allow small children a chance to participate. (2 cans of food fit nicely) Attaching a list of needed items to a grocery sack may be helpful when shopping. Create competitions with different categories: largest individual donation, most cans, match your weight with pounds of food. Have Macaroni Mondays, Tuna Tuesdays, Peanut Butter week to encourage donations of protein foods. Birthday parties are a way to generate food. Everyone invited is encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item in place of a gift. School libraries allow students to pay their late fees with canned goods.

    6. Food Drive Items Any nonperishable food: soup, pasta, canned meat, cereal, tomato products, peanut butter, jelly, juice, sugar, canned fruit and vegetables Baby Items: Diapers, baby food, formula, wipes Hygiene Items: shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, razors, shaving cream, feminine hygiene products

    7. Funds collected allow HAAM to purchase its most needed items and stretch the value of each dollar by buying at wholesale prices. It may be easier for a donor to write a check than purchase a bag of groceries. Keep this in mind when having your food drive. Checks should be payable to Humble Area Assistance Ministries. Please indicate that the donation is for food. Donation receipts are available upon request. If you have collected over 200 lbs. of food HAAM may be able to assist you with a pick up. Several days’ notice is requested.

    8. Contact Information Humble Area Assistance Ministries 1302 First Street Humble, TX 77338 Nancy Oliver 281.446.3663 x245 Fax: 281.446.2601 Email: Haamfoodpantry@yahoo.com

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