<p>Creative Food and Fund Drive Campaign Ideas </p><p>Visible Goals: Create a “thermometer” or chart to track the progress of your fund raising and food donation goals; this can be done in a lobby area, cafeteria, emails or newsletters. </p><p>Competitions: Create a biggest giver challenge competition among offices, departments, groups or floors to see who will collect the most donations. Winners can get a special prize for their winning donation. </p><p>Company Matches: Encourage your company to match cash/check donations, or top off employee contributions to reach a company-wide goal. Speak to your management team about what works best. </p><p>Five Most Wanted Promotion: Highlight the 5 Most Wanted food items, designate “items of the day” for people to donate throughout the work week. </p><p>Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter, Dollar Days – MTWTHF – see the dollars mount up when you throw in your change. </p><p>Donation Bags: Plastic or paper bags are distributed to take home and return full of food. Include a Five Most Wanted list stapled to the bag as a reminder of the items needed. </p><p>Monday is Macaroni and Cheese Day, Tuesday is Tuna Day, etc. Request input from food shelf on what their most needed items are.</p><p>Special Events: Partner your food drive with a special event, using four or more cans of food as a full or reduced admission to an event.</p><p>Fundraising Café – departments take turns making lunch (soup and bread popular), staff pay reasonable amounts to eat, delivery extra. Make it a weekly event for a month, all proceeds go to the food shelf. </p><p>Encourage Cash Donations: Distribute donation envelopes with reminders about the power of a dollar and how $1.00 can be stretched up to 5 times when food shelves buy through their network of vendors. </p><p>Hunger Fast: Encourage your group to skip one meal, giving what money they would have spent on the meal to the fill this plate campaign. </p><p>Incentive Programs: Offer a BOGO (buy one get one) promotion to encourage food or fund donations. For example, if a person donates $25 to your fund & food drive they then receive a “buy one, get one free” coupon for use at a business.</p><p>Casual Dress Days – Employees contribute a set donation amount to be able to wear casual clothes on Fridays. </p><p>Chili Cook offs/bake sales/recipe books/Golf Fundraising – proceeds go to the food shelf.</p><p>Be a can-tributer! Create a canconstruction! A CREATIVE WAY TO HOLD A FOOD DRIVE</p><p>Create a virtual food drive with a link to a donation page for credit card donations.</p><p>Stack cans of food into creative sculptures that appear to be made only from the canned goods themselves. Stacking canned food into sculptures is a retail display and competition art that has a large following around the world. The competition is held and organized by Canstruction, Inc. Can stacking requires careful planning and assembly to build safe structures that stay together. For information on how to create canned food sculptures check out www.canstruction.org Hold competitions by dept. Publish pictures.</p><p>Holiday donations - Sponsor a family by purchasing a paper turkey , angel or snowflake. Hang these items on a wall, donations are 10.00 a piece, once donated you can put the name of the donor on the cut out. </p><p>Questions- contact Lisa Baker, 651-621-7450 or [email protected]</p>