Decide where you will conduct the fund drive: work, church or school.

Decide the dates of your fund drive: Most are successful for a one or two week period, with plenty of notification beforehand.

Plan the notification to your potential contributors of the fund drive: Develop a committee or a small group of volunteers to help hand out flyers, hang posters or write articles for your company, church or school newsletter announcing the drive and the dates for collection. Have the executive officers, department heads, ministers or priests, principal or student councils or clubs endorse the fund drive either in meetings, announcements or by signing the article for the newsletter.

Concept: To tastefully display the amount of food Shared Harvest can distribute for each $1 contributed, called a Country Store Display. The display is assorted canned and boxed food items in a wooden fruit crate, covered with gingham cloth and an interior gingham table cloth. A sign on top of the display explains what the display means. A can for loose change is set up next to the display. The display is most effective where employees, customers, people attending services or students congregate. Be sure to empty the can and secure the money contributed each night.

What Shared Harvest can do for you: Call Tina as soon as you have decided where and on what dates you will conduct the fund drive.

We can provide posters (11” x 17”) and flyers announcing the fund drive.

We can deliver and pick up the Country Store Display and collection can.