Service Projects: Scouting for Food
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Pack 77, Pack 36, Pack 222, Troops 1028/1029, and Troops 37/3711 are working together again this year to support the Scouting for Food food drive to benefit the local Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Due to the state of the economy, food supplies are running low and needs are high. This is also a critical time for the Food Bank just before the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. This is truly our most widely beneficial community service project of the year and it really helps a lot of fine folks who are in often desperate need. To learn more about the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank (the Thomas Jefferson Area Food Bank is part of this overall organization), visit their website at: http://www.brafb.org
The neighborhoods we cover include Redfields, Sunset Overlook, Sherwood Manor, Oak Hill Farm, Mosby Mountain, Oak Hill (behind 5th St County Office Building), Mill Creek, Mill Creek South, Lake Reynovia, Spring Hill Village, Avon Park, Avinity, Foxcroft, Willoughby, Canterbury Hills, Berkeley/Commonwealth Drive, Dunlora, Fry's Spring, Johnson Village, and Whittington.
Unit Scouts can volunteer to help in your neighborhood, or any other neighborhood as you wish! We cover a large area and definitely need YOUR help for this awesome service project, plus it counts as service hours for your rank advancement!
The neighborhoods we cover include Redfields, Sunset Overlook, Sherwood Manor, Oak Hill Farm, Mosby Mountain, Oak Hill (behind 5th St County Office Building), Mill Creek, Mill Creek South, Lake Reynovia, Spring Hill Village, Avon Park, Avinity, Foxcroft, Willoughby, Canterbury Hills, Berkeley/Commonwealth Drive, Dunlora, Fry's Spring, Johnson Village, and Whittington.
Unit Scouts can volunteer to help in your neighborhood, or any other neighborhood as you wish! We cover a large area and definitely need YOUR help for this awesome service project, plus it counts as service hours for your rank advancement!
Key Scouting for Food Dates - 2024 (CONFIRMED BY FOOD BANK):
New Tip for 2024:
On-line Sign-up Sheet to Volunteer to help either/both weekends:
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D45ADAF2BA4FACF8-52465902-scouting#/
Instructions for Volunteers:
Instructions/Timeline for Neighborhood Captains and Unit Leaders:
Any questions? Email Miss Audrey!
- Flyers Out - Saturday November 2, 2024
- Food Collection - Saturday November 9, 2024
New Tip for 2024:
- Last year we found that stapling the Scouting for Food flyers to a paper grocery bag (donated by Wegmans) significantly increased donations in our test neighborhood (Willoughby). This year, we are expanding to ask local grocery store to donate bags and will staple our flyers to as many as possible before distributing. Contact your neighborhood captain for more information.
On-line Sign-up Sheet to Volunteer to help either/both weekends:
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D45ADAF2BA4FACF8-52465902-scouting#/
Instructions for Volunteers:
- Questions? Contact our Scouting for Food Coordinator - Audrey Storm, Troops 1028/1029
- Flyers Out - Saturday November 2, 2024 - email neighborhood Captains earlier in this week to get your street assignments and arrange to pick up flyers from them to distribute at your convenience anytime Saturday through Monday.
- Flyer placement - new for this year, the flyers are lightweight paper without a door hanger hole. Flyers CANNOT be placed in mailboxes and do NOT use any type of tape to attach the flyers to doors or other objects! The best place is typically sticking out halfway from the front door mat, just please be sure it is placed securely so that we will not create a litter problem with flyers blowing away.
- Food Collection - Saturday November 9, 2024 - confirm your street assignments earlier in this week and collect food donations Saturday to return to your Captain, the Food Bank (1207 Harris St, Cville), or drop off at Miss Audrey's house. The flyers ask that food donations be put out by 9:00am, but if you can, make a final sweep between 2:00-3:00pm to make sure we don't miss anything. If you drop donations directly at the Food Bank, be sure to tell them your unit number and email Miss Audrey the donation weight they give you.
- You can help in your neighborhood or any other neighborhood - just get street assignments from the Captain and cover those whenever you want. If you are willing to help in other areas as a floating resource, email Miss Audrey so she can use you as an emergency backup!
Instructions/Timeline for Neighborhood Captains and Unit Leaders:
- Weekend of 10/26 - Collect your flyers and maps from Miss Audrey's front porch. Unit Leaders should email instructions to their units using Miss Audrey's Troop 1028/1029 email as a guide (captains and unit leaders will be BCCed), listing the neighborhood captains and their emails so that volunteers can contact them.
- Monday 10/28 - Advertise flyers out day on social media including neighborhood Facebook pages, email groups, and bulletin boards! See example pdf file below for suggested text, and images below to include.
- Week of 10/28 - volunteers should be emailing you to receive their street assignments for both weekends. Once you have figured out the assignments, put the flyers on your porch with maps and coverage areas for each volunteer team.
- Thursday 10/31 - if you have not gotten enough volunteers, email your unit leader or Miss Audrey to ask for more help! It is NOT the captain's responsibility to cover the entire neighborhood by themselves!
- Weekend of 11/2 - make sure flyers get posted by your volunteer teams sometime between Saturday and Monday.
- Monday 11/4 - Advertise donation collection day on social media including neighborhood Facebook pages, email groups, and bulletin boards! See example pdf file below for suggested text, and images below to include. Unit Leaders should send a reminder email to their units to remind them to volunteer for donation collection day, listing the neighborhood captains and their emails so that volunteers can contact them.
- Week of 11/4 - you may get additional volunteers for donation collection day, so be sure that everyone knows their street assignments.
- Thursday 11/7 - if you have not gotten enough volunteers, email your unit leader or Miss Audrey to ask for more help! It is NOT the captain's responsibility to cover the entire neighborhood by themselves!
- Saturday 11/9- volunteers may drop collected donations at your house, at Miss Audrey's house, or directly at the Food Bank (1207 Harris St). Take your neighborhood donations to either house or the Food Bank by 3:00pm at the latest. If you drop donations directly at the Food Bank, be sure to tell them your unit number and email Miss Audrey the donation weight they give you.
- After Saturday 11/9- if you receive any late donations, take them to either the Food Bank or Miss Audrey's house anytime the following week. Return any leftover flyers to Miss Audrey for use next year.
Any questions? Email Miss Audrey!
Scouting for Food Resource Material:
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Current neighborhood maps with suggested team assignments (may be expanded further soon):
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Suggested Facebook/email posts for neighborhoods (using Redfields as example), updated for 2024:
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Suggested pictures to include with neighborhood Facebook/email posts, the flyer images are important since they list the most desperately needed items:
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