What's for Lunch?

My Lunch!

The General Education Dept at the Ionia County Intermediate School District came up with this way to encourage staff to bring in a donation for the County-wide Food Drive!

There is a catered lunch available for a special program taking place at the ISD on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. And with catered lunches for programs, comes hungry staff members hoping to share in the lunch as catering businesses usually bring more then is needed for the crowd. Instead of wasting that food and throwing it out, this week Staff Members are invited to eat lunch after the program participants are done simply by donating canned goods to the County-wide Food Drive.  There is also a donations jar available at the desk for people who don't remember to pack a canned food item!

AmeriCorps VISTA's serving at the ISD will take all donated funds raised at the ISD to a local store to buy additional canned food items.

Ionia Wash King - Household Cleaners Drive

Last year the Ionia Wash King started a Household Cleaners Drive where people could drop-off donations or place change in the donation jar.  Total they donated over $80 in cash that was used to purchase cleaning supplies and several boxes of products that were left by customers.  This year Ionia Wash King is under new ownership, but the staff turned over $60 worth of donations as the first donation for 2013!

My CHALLENGE to YOU!

What other creative ways can your encourage your co-workers, family members, and the community to make a donation?  There is still time to set something simple up this week!

Hold a jean day, hat day, button day...at your office!  (Make sure to get it approved!)  Co-workers bring in a non-perishable food donation or cash donation in order to participate.

Bake sale day!  Find a co-worker or 2 to join you in baking cookies, cupcakes, etc to leave in the staff break area.  Sit out a donation jar with note explaining all donations will go to the County-wide Food Drive.

Offer a FREE cup of coffee to community members who visit your store with a donation jar sitting next to the coffee pot.

What other ideas can you come up with?  If you plan to do something in the final 3 days of this year's Food Drive, please let us know so the next blog can be all about YOU!  iccfoodnetwork@gmail.com  If you get me the info today, we can even mention it on the PB&J Show tomorrow morning on WION Radio!