Fun ideas for raising food and funds

• Organize pledge drives. Ask family and friends to pledge money if you walk a specific distance.
• Skip lunch on certain days and donate the cost of lunch. A class of students that usually has cocoa and cookies on Friday, instead had a symbolic snack raising $150 for Oregon Food Bank.
• Recycle your junk at a sale: “One person’s junk is another’s treasure.”
• Sponsor bake sales.
• Organize cakewalks.
• Hold taco or chili feeds.
• Organize salad, soup and potato bars.
• Hold pizza parties.
• Sponsor an ice-cream social.
• Hold a potluck.
• Initiate a book sale.
• Sell popcorn.
• Organize a silent auction.
• Auction your managers at a “walk-an-hour-in-my-shoes” auction.
• Create a pop-can collection station.
• Sponsor a craft bazaar.
• Collect food and funds at film festivals.
• Collect food and funds at basketball games, mini-marathons, etc.
• Place donation jars and food bins near break rooms, copiers and fax machines.
• Bag it. Sponsor a brown-bag lunch. Ask staff to donate the cost of a lunch. Or ask people to donate a lunch bag full of nonperishable foods.
• Generate pyramid power. Have teams build a pyramid of food. Or ask teams to bring foods representing the nutritional food pyramid.
• Have groups or teams donate a meal

How do you raise food and funds?

• Submit ideas that work well for you to Raven Camara at rcamara@oregonfoodbank.org.
• Download your own Food Drive Kit.
• We also invite you to participate in events others have organized.
• Questions? Find the answers to frequently asked questions.