More Food Donors Needed in Mount Vernon

Over 1,500 households in Northern Virginia are working with Food For Neighbors to end teen hunger. May we make it over 1,501 households? Please consider signing up to donate food five times per year via the Food For Neighbors Red Bag Program. More donations are especially needed in the Herndon, Falls Church, Fort Hunt, Sterling, and Ashburn areas. Donate: https://www.foodforneighbors.o...

Donating food via the Red Bag Program is very easy!

• Request a Bag: Please visit https://www.foodforneighbors.o... to learn more and register as a food donor. A Food For Neighbors volunteer will drop off a Red Bag with a tag noting requested shelf-stable foods and five collection dates throughout the school year. (If you request your bag now, you’ll be able to participate in the big food collection in March!)

• Fill Your Bag: Shop for the listed foods.

• Leave Your Bag Out: On the requested dates, put your food donations in your Red Bag, and leave the Red Bag on your doorstep. A volunteer will collect your donations and leave you a new Red Bag for the next collection.

Your donations help Food For Neighbors provide students in 25 Northern Virginia schools access to a reliable food source. This helps students remain in school, as there's less pressure to work long hours to provide for themselves and/or their families. It also helps them stay focused when they're in school, as hunger is not interfering with higher thinking. Longer term, the benefit of being better students increases the likelihood that they'll be successful members of the community, which lifts up everyone.

Hunger is closer than you think. Sign up to donate food at https://www.foodforneighbors.o..., and check out what goes on behind-the-scenes at https://youtu.be/PR740n_v8Ww.