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Take the Food Drive Challenge and Everyone Wins!
For everything you need to know to host a food drive, read the Food Bank's Food Drive Kit. CLICK HERE!

Ways to donate food:

1. Year round community food drives. Click here for locations.
2. Click here to donate using our Virtual Food Drive!
3. The Food Bank's Concord warehouse can accept food donations as follows: Monday, Friday, Saturday – 7:00 am - 3:30 pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – 7:00 am - 7:00 pm

To collect food: listed below are the online registration and PDF documents to assist you in your Food Drive. Everything you need is here and ready to use.

Food Drive Kit (PDF:42KB)

Food Drive Newsletter (PDF:244KB)

Food Drive Poster (PDF:686KB)
8 1/2 x 11 poster download for display.

Ten Most Wanted Food Items (PDF:78KB)

Tip Sheet for Business (PDF:48KB)

Tip Sheet for Retail Store (PDF:60KB)

Tip Sheet for School (PDF:60KB)

What Kind of Food Should You Collect?

The food collected in your community will be distributed in your community.
Please consider this list when purchasing food to be donated to the food bank:

Canned Meat, Fish & Soups
Canned Ready to Eat Meals
Canned Vegetables & Tomato Products
Peanut Butter (plastic container)
Iron Rich Cereal (45% or more of daily value)
100% Fruit Juice (48 oz. or less plastic bottles)
Canned Fruit (in juice)
Dry Beans (any type)
Enriched Rice or Pasta
Powdered Milk

What can you do if...

You don't have space for a Food Drive Barrel or You don't get much foot traffic?
Check out the Food Drive Kit for solutions to these challenges and more.

You don't have time right now?
• We need help year around. Give us a call anytime—we are fighting hunger year ‘round.

DonateNowMake your donation go even further!
Donate dollars instead of food by using the Buy A Bag Program! ($1 = 3 pounds of food). Be sure to designate your donation to Food Drive. LEARN MORE about Buy A Bag!

QUESTIONS?
To receive more information on Food Drives, please call Joan Tomasini at the Food Bank, (800) 870-FOOD extension 208 or email her at jtomasini@foodbankccs.org for more information
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