[Durham INC] Help NCSSM hold World Record Breaking food drive

Sun Mar 6 12:32:53 EST 2011

A big thanks to any of you that helped get food to Science and Math yesterday. They collected >540,000 pounds of food, which assuming it is certified will break the World Record, which was 509,000 pounds of food!

-chloe

From: cpalenchar at hotmail.com
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Subject: RE: [Durham INC] Help NCSSM hold World Record Breaking food drive
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:24:18 +0000

Today was the kickoff day for the NCSSM food drive and might be a good day to kick off your own neighborhood's food drive to help Science and Math break the world record by collecting over 510,000 pounds of food in a single day.

Some ideas for how to organize your neighborhood:
1. Organize a door-to-door food collection. About one week before the food drive, deliver grocery bags or small boxes to each house. The day of the food drive, go around your neighborhood picking up the full boxes/bags. (A pickup truck and a few volunteers to walk along is a good strategy for retrieving the donations.)
2. Designate a place or two in your neighborhood where neighbors can bring their donations, starting a week or so before the food drive. Have someone collect everything from the central location(s) to take to Science and Math on March 5th.
3. Encourage your neighbors via newsletter, email, flyer, and word of mouth to donate to the food drive.

In all cases, there are always two options to donate
1. real pounds of food on March 5th
2. Give to the virtual food drive ($1=2.5 pounds of food) by midnight Feb 27th. http://www.foodbankcenc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=VFD_NCSSM (Donations are tax deductible).

If your neighborhood can commit to its own food drive, please become a friend and make your pledge:
http://www.ncssm.edu/fooddrive/?page_id=532

SAMPLE NEWSLETTER ARTICLE:

More than Half a Million Pounds of Food - 24 hours.
NCSSM plans second attempt for a world record-breaking food drive

On March 5, 2011 NCSSM will again attempt to break the world record for collecting the most food in one place on one day.  The current record is about 510,000 pounds.  Last year’s food drive was a huge success, despite the fact that we didn’t break the record. With the help of our neighbors and friends in the Watts Hillandale neighborhood, we collected over 320,000 pounds of non-perishable food.  It was the largest one-day food drive held in North Carolina, surpassing even the amount of food gathered by the Food Bank at the North Carolina State fair. 

Organizers of the food drive again hope that our neighbors from Watts Hillandale will participate. During the last week in February students will deliver a grocery bag to each home in the neighborhood.  And then, on Saturday March 5, students will pick up any bags of non-perishable food that you leave at your door. The donations that you and your neighbors made contributed largely to last year’s success, and we at NCSSM thank you for your generosity.

All donations to the NCSSM Food Drive will support the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.  In the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the Food Bank distributed 36,880,213 lbs of food to 800 agencies (food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, group homes) in the central and eastern parts of the state.  In the 34 counties that make up Central and Eastern North Carolina, there are nearly a half million people at risk of hunger. Of those, 34 percent are children, nearly 12 percent are elderly, and nearly 40 percent have one or more working adults in the household.

Please mark your calendar to participate in the Food Drive on March 5, 2011.  Leave your donations at your door and students will pick them up or bring them directly to the school. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer to help on the day of the event, please don’t hesitate to e-mail Sue Anne Lewis at NCSSMFoodDrive at gmail.com.   Tell your friends!  Find us on Facebook and Twitter or visit our web site at www.ncssm.edu/fooddrive.  Thank you. 

Fast Facts:About 2010 NCSSM Food Drive:

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March 20, 2010 was 1st ever NCSSM
Food Drive

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Collected 319,990 lbs. of food in 18 hours
donated to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC

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Only had 2 months of planning

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Food Lion was main sponsor

About 2011 NCSSM Food Drive:

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March 5, 2011 7am – 10pm

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Walmart is lead sponsor

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Collection at 39 Walmart stores across Central
& Eastern NC

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WTVD is Official TV Station

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
using NCSSM Food Drive as national day of service

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Chick-Fil-A

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Providing food for all volunteers at NCSSM

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Collecting at all Durham/Chapel Hill locations
March 3, 4, and 5. Bring 3 cans to the drive through and get a free chicken
sandwich.

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8 colleges & universities collecting (Duke,
NCCU, UNC-CH, NCSU, Meredith College, Peace College, ECU, UNC-W)

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3-4 community colleges (TBD)

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Collection at NCSU vs. GT basketball game  on 2/26/11

About Guinness World Record:

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Largest Food Drive in 24 hours at a single
location

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Currently Held By: The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in conjunction with the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank in
September 2008.

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Collected 509,147 lbs. of food

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Was attempted Sept. 2010 by Stadium HS in Washington
State.

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If record is approved, it will be 515,067 lbs.;
so far this has not been approved so it likely will not be

About the Food Bank of Central &
Eastern NC:

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Serves 34 counties in Central & Eastern NC

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In 2009-2010, the Food Bank distributed 41.5
million lbs. of food to 800 agencies

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Feeding America 2010 study estimates 545,000
receives food annually

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73,000 receive emergency food assistance in any
given week

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33.7% are children under 18 yrs. Old

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30% of households including one employed adult

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8% are homeless

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The Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC is in
the top 10 in food distribution out of more than 200 food banks in the US.

Web sites

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NCSSM Food Drive site:   www.ncssm.edu/fooddrive

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Virtual Food Drive site:  can link from above, or directly http://www.foodbankcenc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=VFD_NCSSM

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Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC site:   www.foodbankcenc.org

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Facebook site: 
www.facebook.com/NCSSMFoodDrive

From: cpalenchar at hotmail.com
To: inc-list at durhaminc.org
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:54:56 +0000
Subject: [Durham INC] Help NCSSM hold World Record Breaking food drive

NCSSM is trying again this year to break the Guinness World Record for largest food drive (more than 500,000 pounds) in 24 hours at one location. Last year students from NCSSM helped collect food from the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood. I think we can help them (and, more importantly, food insecure people in North Carolina) by inviting all the rest of the neighborhoods in Durham to organize a food drive and deliver the food to NCSSM on March 5th, 2011.

Is this something worth discussing at the next INC meeting (I'm unsure of the process for setting the agenda)? Is it an okay use of the INC mailing list if I send out the info to help neighborhoods organize their food drives?

More info about the food drive can be found here: http://www.ncssm.edu/fooddrive/

thanks,
-chloe palenchar
Old East Durham

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