Food Drive Starter Kit Giving Children Hope

Feed homeless children in our local community through a “We’ve Got Your Back” Food Drive

1. Complete a Food Drive form 2. Pick up boxes

We’ve Got Your Back is a weekend nutrition program created by Giving Children Hope for school-age students in our local community's school districts who have been identified as homeless under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. To get started on a food drive or for more information contact: Christine Sanchez at [email protected] or 714-523-4454

How to Conduct an Impactful FOOD DRIVE Planning For Your Food Drive

Educate Your Group About Hunger in Orange County

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The WGYB info sheet in this packet has facts and statistics to share with your group and learn more about the children you are serving! Get to know Giving Children Hope-check out our website (www.gchope.org) or Facebook page (Facebook.com/GCHope).

Be Creative in the Education Process

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Have everyone fast for a day or skip a meal to understand what these children endure. If you are a church group, pray for the children during your fast.

Getting Started Set A Goal

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Set start/end dates (a month is a good amount of time), a goal amount of food (each backpack is approx. 22 pounds), and a date to deliver the food to GCHope. Be sure to promote information about the food drive in prominent locations and on social media. Get the contact information of everyone participating. A sign-up sheet is provided.

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Promotional Materials

If you would like promotional material please ask! We would be happy to provide a backpack to display or send a PDF so you can print flyers.

The Menu

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A menu of food is provided as a guideline. All the contents will fill one backpack. Average cost to fill each backpack is $20-25. This will serve two children and their parents for an entire weekend.

Participant Cost

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For those who are able, we ask that a $5 check made payable to Giving Children Hope be added to each box to partially cover administrative costs. Please do not feel obligated to do so, but if you can it will help the program tremendously.

Wrapping Up Your Food Drive 

All Food Should Be Delivered To Giving Children Hope On The Scheduled Date And Time If you have more food than you are able to deliver please contact our office and inquire about GCHope making a pick-up.

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Thank Your Donors

Communicate final results and express thanks to participants—perhaps in your employee newsletter, church bulletin, or on your website. Create a thank you video or share photos of all the food donated. Be creative—the options are limitless! Please share any pictures or videos with the Giving Children Hope Communications Coordinator so that we can make sure to thank you on our social media or write a blog about your group on our website! Email Carly Visbal at [email protected]

FOOD DRIVE HOST FORM We’ve Got Your Back Thank you for hosting a food drive for the We’ve Got Your Back program. Please complete the following information: Name: ______________________________Today’s Date:______________ Name of your Organization/School/Company or Group:____________________ Address: ____________________________________________________ City: ____________________State: ____________Zip Code: ___________ Email: ______________________Phone Number:____________________ Supply pick up date (boxes, supplies, etc.): ___________/___________/___________ Drop off date (of boxes full of food): ___________/____________/__________ QUANTITY OF BOXES TAKEN: 50

100

150

BARRELS (instead of boxes)

200 1

250 2

Other __________ 3

5

10

My team would like to have a “Volunteer Packing Party” to fill the backpacks with the food we raised. I understand that my $50 check made payable to Giving Children Hope is a deposit for the supplies and boxes used to conduct my food drive. I also understand that the check will not be cashed unless I fail to return the agreed number of boxes taken to Giving Children Hope, full or empty. Signature X ___________________________________Date __________ FOR OFFICE USE ONLY $50 Check made payable to Giving Children Hope received on ____/____/____ Check #_________ Name (on check): Address (on check): Giving Children Hope 8332 Commonwealth Avenue, Buena Park, CA 90621 (714)-523-4454

FOOD DRIVE MENU We’ve Got Your Back

Thank you for providing a child in need with delicious and nutritious meals! In addition to what you generously provide, Giving Children Hope will give each child a bag of produce with fresh fruits and vegetables.

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Item

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Peanut or Sunflower Seed Butter (natural) (16 oz. or larger)

1 1 1 2 1 1 8

Bagged Rice (brown or long grain preferred) (2lb. bag)

1 4

Canned Pasta or Tomato Sauce

Dried Beans (low sodium) (2lb. or larger) Whole Grain Cereal or Oatmeal (low sugar) (box) Canned or Boxed Soup (low sodium) Whole Grain Pasta (1lb. or larger) Canned Meats & Fish (in water) (15 oz.) Healthy Snacks (such as low sugar granola bars, raw nuts, dried fruit) (24 oz.)

Water Bottles

The above items will fill ONE backpack providing an entire family with food for an entire weekend! Great job!

We’ve Got Your Back Fact Sheet What is We’ve Got Your Back (WGYB)?

The WGYB program is a weekend nutrition club for Orange County school-age students who are defined as homeless by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. There are more than 30,000 recorded homeless children in Orange County. Children in the program receive a backpack filled with nutritionally balanced food and nutritional guidance each week. In the 2013-2014 school year, GCHope fed 3,300 school-age children every week. According to The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, homeless families are less likely to have access to regular nutritious meals and food, which results in nutritional deficiencies. Unstably-housed children also face a greater risk for mental and emotional stress, with these children worrying about where their next meal will come from or where they will sleep at night - worries that their counterparts do not have.

$20 sponsors a child & their family for a month! $240 sponsors that same child & their family for an entire year! Totals children served in WGYB: 2,562 Total schools enrolled in WGYB: 47

Cities the WGYB program is currently in: Buena Park: 8 schools Santa Ana: 6 schools Anaheim: 22 schools La Habra: 1 school Fullerton: 2 schools Placentia: 1 school Tustin: 3 schools Huntington Beach: 1 school Norwalk: 2 school Garden Grove: 1 school Students on the WGYB program waiting list: 300 (approximately)

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PHONE NUMBER

Please Return to Giving Children Hope (714)-523-4454 www.givingchildrenhopeorg

ADDRESS

Food Drive Sign-Up