Supporting the Food Bank can be fun!

• Ask your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and anyone else you know to buy a case of GSB 30% or 100% post-consumer recycled paper online through the Paper=Food campaign and Give Something Back and Boise Inc. will donate $1 to select California community food banks – including ours.
• Sell tickets for a “Baked Potato Bar” for lunch – have coworkers bring baked potatoes, cheese, toppings.
• Have a “Throwdown” (A Food Network Bobby Flay style competition). Have a cupcake, brownie, or salsa Throw-down, then sell the product. Make the product yourself or ask local restaurants or bakeries to participate.
• Sell tickets for a “Dessert Tasting”; have donors bring baked goods.
• Hold a raffle. See if anyone is willing to donate items for a raffle. Possible ideas include: homemade pie, homemade cookies, gift certificate to a restaurant/business, or a gift basket with a theme i.e. Baker’s Basket, Holiday Basket, etc.
• Hold a pee-wee American Idol contest and sell tickets!
• Play an instrument or sing for co-workers! Ask for a donation if you don’t sing!
• Hold a white elephant or yard sale, at home or at work!
• Ask co-workers to bring in books, CD’s, DVD’s they no longer want and have a sale.
• Cook breakfast for co-workers or hold a BBQ.
• Pass the hat – an empty grocery bag – at work or at a party.

Explain to your donors that:

• Each $1 donated enables the Food Bank to distribute many more dollars worth of nutritious food—equivalent to two meals.
• 28% of people receiving emergency food are children.
• A full 95 cents of each dollar goes directly to food programs.