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A DIY Food Drive
Start your food drive by accessing the templates and forms you see here: you can have your campaign ready in less time than it takes to brew a cup of coffee!
Do It Yourself Canned Food Drive: A How-To
Copy our google doc campaigns and give them your unique theme: whether for Halloween or any other occasion. You can customize all flyers to suit your needs and campaign. Or simply use what's there and enter the drop off location, and print what you need for your custom donation bags.
Either way, our simple infrastructure has everything you needed to make a successful canned food drive.
Sample Combination of Flyers & Donation Bag
Sample Flyers For Your Food Drive
Materials List (with links) for Your Canned Food Drive
FOUND ON AMAZON, circa $37: 45 Gallon-Collapsible Trash Can For Camping Or Party Rubbish Or Garden Waste Or Yard Waste, Reusable Container For Lawn Care And Gardening. Brand: YUDI & GARDEN
Why this is helpful: inexpensive collection bin at your driveway or porch, or any other location. By providing the paper bags, you simply empty the collection bin in intervals and retain the filled donation bags
ON AMAZON: Reli, Paper Grocery Bags w/Handles (100 Pcs, Bulk)(12"x7"x14") Large Paper Grocery Bags, Shopping Bags w/Handles - Heavy Duty 57 Lbs Basis - Takeout/To Go Bags, Retail Bags, Brown Reli. circa $39.99
Why this is helpful: inexpensive paper bags, recyclable: use these with your flyers (stapled together) so you can deliver flyers & donation bags to your community. The filled bags can then be
Astrobrights Mega Collection, Colored Paper, Ultra Red, 625 Sheets, 24 lb/89 gsm, 8.5" x 11" - Amazon Link
Why this is helpful: inexpensive brightly colored paper, can be printed on any black and white printer for your flyers and collection point signs. No need for expensive color prints. NO PRINTER? NO PROBLEM: use the simple Print&Go function of Fedex Office, and bring your own paper.
New! We now have "Swag"!
Not Available for Sale: Earned, not Paid For.
Cans for Candy community ambassadors who host a successful canned food drive deserve recognition: for 50 bags of canned foods, we will send you a Cans For Candy baseball cap! For 100 bags of canned foods collected, we will send you a Cans For Candy trucker cap! For 200 bags of canned foods collected, we will send you our cool Hoodie sweatshirt!
(Must be registered with Cans For Candy, and provide the documentation requirements as provided upon registration.)
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