Help to ensure that every child has the chance to reach their full potential by participating in the 2011 San Francisco Schools Food and Fund Drive. This year’s drive features a new “virtual” food drive tool where students, teachers and parents can visit a customized school site and easily track progress to goal, make online donations, post drive updates and find out what the school is doing to support the drive.
Running a Schools Food and Fund Drive is easy! Here’s how:
- You and your school will receive a personalized URL that you can send out to your administration, friends and family, to get everyone to join your drive.
- Order barrels from the Food Bank when you register.
- Promote your drive to your student and parents
- Fill the barrels up with food.
- We can replace full barrels with empty barrels as your organization fills them up. Please allow 2 to 3 days to schedule a swap. You can request a barrel swap through your coordinator login or contact us to schedule.
100 Pound Pledge
Fuel and transportation remain costly – so we’re asking that each participating school commit to collecting at least 100 pounds of food per barrel, over the course of their food drive (approximately 2/3 barrel). If your school is small, you can still help by:
- Hosting a fundraising drive.
- Collecting food in your own containers and delivering it to the Food Bank.
- Donating food at one of our drop-off locations.
Please feel free to contact us for more information or ideas on how you can help.
Students and Hunger Awareness
Food: The Perfect Gift is not only a chance to help those in need in our community but a great learning opportunity for students. You can use a holiday drive as a context for teaching your students about hunger and poverty in our community.
Use the listed curricula below to organize activities around issues of hunger and poverty in your classroom. These resources focus on hunger in our local community as well as across the country and around the world.
Curriculum for Grades K-5
Curriculum for Grades 6-12
Hunger 101: an eye-opening online module which takes students through the experience of hunger right here in San Francisco.
Recommended Reading: Books can be a source of great insight and understanding when examining hunger and poverty-related issues. The following list includes some of the San Francisco Food Bank’s favorite books for children, as well as some selections for adolescents and adults.
Hunger Quiz: After exploring hunger issues, test your students’ knowledge with this hunger quiz or create your own quiz using our Fact Sheet and information from www.sffoodbank.org.
