Food Drive, Volunteer needed by West Alabama Food Bank

Food drive tips:
• Advertise your food drive with flyers, brochures, or other announcements. People must know about your food drive in order to participate. Be sure to list pertinent contact names and phone numbers if donors have questions.
• Provide bags, boxes or collection barrels for donors to put their donation in. Decorate these collection materials to attract attention to your food drive.
• Enlist high-energy people to contact donors and collect food. Enthusiasm is contagious!
• Be sure to thank donors and reward individuals or groups that bring in the most food.
• A work-organized food drive will be more successful if your employer is involved in planning – they may even match your contributions.
• For those people that just can’t seem to bring a can of food – ask them for a cash contribution. For every $1 donated to the food bank we can distribute $7 worth of food.
• Be sure to ask donors for unopened, non-perishable food items, please no glass containers or homemade foods.
• The food bank always needs items like breakfast foods, peanut butter, canned fruit, canned vegetables, canned meats and soups, crackers and cookies.

Your food drive is urgently needed!
The West Alabama Food Bank frequently needs food product in the late summer/early fall (August/September) and early spring (March). Your food drive at this time will be of immense help to our community.

Last year food bank agencies distributed 1.22 million pounds of food in the form of 95,373 emergency food boxes and 133,215 meals.

Thanks again for donating your time and talents to help those in need!

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