Harvest Hope Food Bank

Sponsoring a food drive is easy!

Thousands of Midlands residents, schools, churches, and businesses generously donate food to the Harvest Hope Food Bank each year through a variety of corporate, civic, and holiday food drives.

What is a Food Drive?

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A food drive is a concentrated effort to collect non-perishable food in a certain time period. You and/or your organization will work with Harvest Hope Food Bank in coordinating your organization's food drive. When planning a Food Drive, here are some important questions to ask yourself:

Common Questions to ask yourself before starting a Food Drive:

Who will be the representative of your food drive?
What dates do you want your Food Drive to occur?
Do you want the Food Drive to have a theme, such as Feed the Need ?
Do you have containers to put food in or do you need some barrels from the Food Bank?
Where are you going to place your containers to collect food (in each classroom, in the lunch room, in the office, etc.)
How will you let people know about the Food Drive? (daily announcements, flyers, posters, newsletters, etc.)
Will there be an incentive for participants?
Is there a designated person who will deliver the food to the Food Bank or does the Food Bank need to pick up the food at the end of the Food Drive?
You may pick up food collection barrels at our warehouse at 2220 Shop Road (for Columbia residents), 2513 W. Lucas St. (for Florence residents.) or 5200 Pelham Road Suite A (for Greenville Residents) If you need more than two you can call our office to request a delivery.

Containers

Place containers in central areas that are easily accessible. Harvest Hope Food Bank has barrels (55 gallon fiberboard drums) that can be borrowed for your food drive. Each barrel will hold between 100 and 150 pounds of food. If you will need barrels, please notify Harvest Hope Food Bank at the beginning of your food drive by calling or emailing us at the locations below:

For the Midlands Area please contact Katharine Stafford at (803) 254-4432, ext. 2102 or kstafford@harvesthope.org.

For the Florence area please contact Michael Murphy (843)661-0826 or email mmurphy@harvesthope.org.

For the Greenville area please contact Sharon Savage (864) 281-3995 or email at ssavage@harvesthope.org.

Transportation of Food

Groups are encouraged to deliver boxes or barrels to Harvest Hope Food Bank. Hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. However, if the amount of food is too great to be transported by car, please contact us for a pick-up (please allow a minimum 24 hour notice) by calling or emailing one of the following locations: