HOW YOU CAN HELPFOOD DRIVESHosting a food drive at your business, school, neighborhood or faith-based organization will help us in our efforts to provide disaster relief to those most in need. Click on the links below to find out what you need to know about managing a food drive. 
. On-Line Food or Fund Drive Registration. How to Organize a Food or Fund Drive . Most Needed Items for Hurricane Relief . Download/Print A Food Drive Box Flyer . Food Bank Drop-Off Locations For more information, contact our Food Drive Coordinator. FOOD DONATIONS Individual donations of food and non-food essentials are extremely helpful and critical to the overall relief effort. All donated items should be delivered to the Food Bank location nearest you. The Food Bank cannot accept prepared meals for evacuees relocated to shelters in North Carolina. If you are interested in providing hot meals for these individuals contact Wake County Human Services at 919.212.9595. Please keep the following suggestions in mind as you collect needed items to donate: . Only use boxes that hold up to 50 lbs. in which to collect your items to be donated so that they may be easily lifted. . Barrels do not make good collection containers, as they can weigh up to 800 pounds. . Relief organizations have found that it is often most practical to focus on one or two items that an organization says is needed rather than collect a variety of items and have boxes filled with mixed goods - please consider donating items in bulk. . If possible, please consider donating cases of a particular food or non-food item. Cases are usually easier to sort, pack, and distribute than individual units. (For example: a case of peanut butter is easier to handle than individual jars of peanut butter). Pooling resources and focusing on single item donations are good ways to manage the higher costs of purchasing items by the case. . Encourage food drives and food collections that focus on a specific type of item: Peanut Butter Drive, Cleaning Supplies Drive, Nutritional Snack Food Drive, etc. . If holding a Baby Items Drive: please collect diapers, infant cereal, and formula. Please donate these items by the case, as loose glass or plastic jars of baby food will have to be discarded due to health regulations. . Pre-sort foods into categories prior to delivery to Food Bank. . Please DO NOT put cleaning supplies in the same box as food items. . The Food Bank cannot accept clothing. Used clothing is rarely a useful item to collect for disaster relief as it is hard to clean, sort, pack, transport, store and distribute, and mounds of clothing take up valuable warehouse space. Donated used clothing frequently ends up being discarded. To find a Food Bank drop-off location in your area, please click HERE. For more information, contact our Food Drive Coordinator. CURRENT VOLUNTEER NEEDS The best way to volunteer for the Food Bank to help with the disaster relief effort is to host a food drive and deliver the collected items to the Food Bank location nearest you. . If you have a truck or SUV and are willing to make local pickups and deliveries in your area, you can sign up to be an on-call volunteer driver. On-call drivers are required to go through an application process and driving record check. To sign up to be a volunteer driver, contact the volunteer coordinator in the Food Bank location nearest you. . Tractor trailers are in great demand in disaster relief efforts. If you have a tractor trailer that can be scheduled to be used to help in the Food Bank's relief efforts, please contact Anna Davenport, Food Resources Manager for the Food Bank: adavenport@foodbankcenc.org . Greenville Branch - Volunteers are needed to sort food drive items destined for the victims in the affected areas. The Food Bank is open Monday through Friday 8am - 4pm, Wednesday 6pm - 8pm, and Saturday 9am - 1pm, and other times as needed. Please contact the Greenville Volunteer Coordivator via email or call at 252.752.4996. . Raleigh Branch - Volunteers are needed to sort food drive items destined for the victims in the affected areas. We can accept up to 20 volunteers per shift. Click HERE to see what shifts are available. To sign up for a shift please contact the Raleigh Volunteer Coordivator via email or call 919.865-3024. |
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