Food Drives

Getting involved with a local food drive is one of the oldest, and truest, forms of direct contribution to helping end food insecurity in your community. Food drives help add a variety of items usually not provided by the foods received at the Food Distribution Center.

A few, long-standing drives in our area include:

Green Bags

A sustainable, yearlong food drive hosted by RSVP(Retired Senior Volunteer Program)/Americorps Seniors. Simply call CDCAC for your re-useable green grocery bag. Then every other month a volunteer will come to pick up your bag with grocery items you’ve collected. For more information or to get involved click here

Letter Carrier’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

The nation’s largest one-day food drive. Postal carriers from across the nation will drop a well-marked grocery sack in your mailbox a week before the drive. Then on the second Saturday of May, these postal carriers will pick up the frovery sacks up and deliver them to a designated drop site. They will make their way to the Food Distribution Center, and soon thereafter to a local food pantry.

Holiday Chicken Drive

Started and run by Americorps, the holiday Chicken Drive focuses on bringing a holiday meal to everyone served by a pantry in Chelan and Douglas counties. For two days in early September, we partner with a local businesses and set up our refrigerated truck and tables at participating partners. Volunteers accept donated chickens or cash to purchase chickens. Our Clientele come from a myriad of backgrounds and ethnicities, and we have chosen chickens (instead of turkeys) because of their size and familiarity to most diets.

If you are interested in holding a food drive, please email food@cdcac.org to register your drive and schedule a pickup. We will send you a “Drive Pack” including our logo and tax ID.