Northern Virginia Communities To Hold Major Food Collection

On Saturday, November 6th, Food For Neighbors will mobilize community members in Fairfax County and Loudoun County to collect and sort thousands of pounds of food for students in 25 area secondary schools. Check out this video to see what’s happening in a neighborhood near you, and consider becoming one of over 1,500 households that donate approximately $45 of food five times per year.

Food For Neighbors Red Bag Program

Donating food via the Red Bag Program is very easy!

• Request a Bag: Please visit https://www.foodforneighbors.o... to 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 this month, you’ll be able to participate in the big January collection!)
• 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 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. For more information, please visit https://www.foodforneighbors.org/.