Food Drives
Food collected by community groups provides better choices for our clients.
Food drives can be a fun and worthwhile activity for any group, small or large.
We welcome food drive donations for our Kids Club program all year round. We encourage collection of foods from three categories which are described on this page.
During October and November, we appreciate food drives that will provide families with side dishes or pies for their Thanksgiving meal. The foods collected provide families with the quality brands that they prefer, and offset our expenses for food purchases.
Kids Club Food Drive
Kids love mac n’ cheese, granola bars, and most of all, a wide variety of breakfast cereals that we can never get from the Greater Boston Food Bank.
These are the three most needed Kids Club food drive items:
Breakfast Cereal (variations on Cheerie-Os or other kid-friendly varieties)
Cereal or granola bars (6-8 bar boxes)
Mac n’Cheese (Kraft, Annie’s or similar boxed options)
Click the button below if you want to learn more, or are ready to run a food drive.
Holiday Food Drives
Sides are often the best part of a Thanksgiving meal. We’ll be providing lots of fresh produce but the items listed below will make holiday plates complete. Clients love having brown sugar to add to sweet potatoes and carrots!
These are the three holiday food drive items that we need:
Stuffing Mix (boxes or bags of Pepperidge Farm, Stove Top or similar)
Cranberry Sauce (canned, jellied or whole berry, any brand)
Brown Sugar (1 or 2 lb. boxes or bags, light or dark)
You can run a food drive for one specific item, two items or all of them. We ask that your drive collect a minimum of 24 of one item. Click the button below if you want to learn more.
The food you will collect in your drive does more than just fill the cupboards of those in need; it provides dignity.
Families prefer the brands of food that we take for granted when we shop at a supermarket. When these are included in Kids Club and holiday grocery bags, they replace the stigma associated with government food and replace it with a small example that they are not “lesser than” others, and that the community cares.