Food Drives

Food Drive Ideas

It can be helpful to consider your group, it's makeup and your goals when putting together a food drive. One model for a successful food drive would be to focus on something that is important to the group you are collecting food from.

• One high school class collected all Macaroni & Cheese, a teenage favorite!
• Another group put together Easter baskets each spring.
• Consider holding a Baby Shower where guests bring in baby food, diapers, and other baby items.
• Scavenger Hunt for Echo - divide groups into teams to canvas designated neighborhoods for food donations. Set a time limit and offer prizes for the most food collected or for special predetermined items.

Think about what is important to your group, or something they can relate to and give them the option to focus on this for the food drive.

Please see our Food/Fund Drive Kit (PDF)!  These are more promotional materials to get you started:

• Flyer
• Most Needed Items List
• ECHO Food Shelf brochure (available on request)
• Fundraising Ideas/Theme Info Sheet
• Local Media Info Sheet

Churches

Many churches in the Blue Earth County and North Mankato area have collection boxes located in their buildings to collect food for ECHO. If your church doesn't have a collection box, see if you can start one!

Churches with collection boxes:

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
632 Broad St. St
Mankato, MN 56001

Saint Peter and Paul's Catholic Church
105 N 5th St
Mankato, MN 56001

Bethlehem Lutheran Church
720 S 2nd St
Mankato, MN 56001

Messiah Lutheran Church
1706 Lee Boulevard
North Mankato MN 56003

Let us know if your church has a collection box and we'll include it on this list!