Spring Foodlessness
Helping low income families fight against food insecurity
Objectives
· Don’t pay for any of the materials needed
· Get 50% return on bags
· Get King Soopers involved
Actions
· Letters written to king Soopers asking for gift cards
· Drop bags off at houses in higher class neighborhood in boulder area
· Pick up bags from houses
· Deliver bags to Community Food Share of Boulder
Outcomes
· 100 bags dropped off in high class neighborhoods
· 36 bags picked up
· 206 items received
· 266 lbs. of food donated to Community Food Share
Learning’s
· Working as a group instead of splitting the workload up into four sections worked well for us.
· Need a tax exempt code for maximum donations
· If we could have recruited friends, we would have been able to drop off more bags in a larger area
· Advertise our food drive in local Magazine/paper and Facebook
· Write thank you cards