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7 steps to holding an end-of-the-year food drive through STUFH

4/6/2010 12:00:00 AM

1. Obtain approval from your college or university to hold a food drive at the end of the semester.

2. Set up the time and date for the food bins to be brought by the food bank to the food drop-off point on your campus. Bins are usually placed in each dormitory. If this is not possible or your college is a commuter school, several other high traffic student areas may be used instead.

3. Publicize! Obtain flyers, posters or any other informative material that will let the departing students know of your efforts to help feed the hungry in your community.

4. Mark the food bins with information on what foodstuffs are acceptable for donation (i.e. nonperishable, unopened food items).

6. Set up the time and place for you local food bank to pick up the bins at the end of the food drive.

6. Obtain final results of the poundage of food items collected through your drive. Send these results, along with a thank you letter, to the college authorities who authorized your food drive.

7. If you need help locating your local food bank and the local food bank official who can act as a liaison to your club, contact STUFH President Dan Kahn by email at dkahn@stufh.org.

By Toby Markham, STUFH ambassador, CKI Service Committee

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