Food drives are a useful way to help food-insecure individuals and families obtain the food assistance they desperately need to combat hunger.
In a traditional food drive, organizations such as churches, libraries, schools, and companies will host events where donors will physically collect and drop off food-related items during a food collection campaign, typically for a finite amount of time. Food banks and food pantries with logistics capabilities must then periodically collect the food, store it, and distribute it.
While these types of food drives have been around for decades and can be very successful, we all inhabit a digital world where we can efficiently accomplish much the same thing from the comfort of our personal devices – without having to carry or lug around canned goods, boxes, and more.
Virtual Food Drives Are Fun!
Virtual food drives are an excellent way to support our hunger relief efforts by replicating traditional food drives without having to physically collect, store, or transport a single item.
Virtual food drives enable donors to donate digitally food or money to Second Helping simply by tapping their devices.
We have gamified this process to make virtual food drives fun!
Host a Digital Individual Fundraiser to Support Second Helping
Help us in our fight against hunger and food insecurity today!
Raise donations for Second Helping using your personal fundraising page on our platform.
You can easily register a new fundraiser and then promote your fundraiser to your family, friends, co-workers, and others through word-of-mouth and your social media accounts such as Facebook and Instagram.
You can choose to host one-time fundraisers or recurring fundraisers, such as a monthly fundraiser or a quarterly fundraiser.
You can even choose to host holiday fundraisers or fundraisers around other important events.
We manage the heavy lifting such as platform hosting, payments processing, and much more – allowing you to simply focus on running your fundraising campaign.
Your beautifully-designed, customized page will be up and running in minutes and will be responsive, meaning can be viewed perfectly on the different devices of your friends, family, or co-workers.
Your donors will even receive an automated message of your choosing thanking them for their donations – and let your friends and colleagues know why you believe it is important to fight hunger and food insecurity.
Individual fundraisers can set and track their success with goal meters, and leaderboards and a scrolling donor section will highlight the wonderful people who are supporting our mutual mission to reduce hunger and food insecurity.
When a donor donates money during an Individual fundraiser, it enables us to provide a certain number of meals to the people we serve.
At the conclusion of your individual fundraising campaign, Second Helping receives the money raised from our integrated payments processor and these donations help us advance our fight against hunger and food insecurity.
Second Helping is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, and this means donors may be eligible to deduct their donations on their taxes in accordance with IRS regulations.
Host a Digital Team Fundraiser to Support Second Helping
Have your friends, family, co-workers, and other join your fundraising team to reach a common fundraising goal!
You can easily create teams, select team names, choose team avatars, and identify your fundraising targets.
Each member of your team will receive an individual fundraising page on our platform and your team as a whole will select a team fundraising goal that all donations to your team members’ individual pages will be applied to.
You can also join an existing team set up by a friend, family member, co-worker, or other person.
Peer-to-peer fundraising enables Second Helping to benefit from the power of your supporters, reach more people, and increase donations through team fundraising pages.
When a donor donates money during a Team fundraiser, it enables us to provide a certain number of meals to the people we serve.
At the conclusion of your team’s fundraising event, Second Helping receives the money raised from our integrated payments processor and these donations help us advance our fight against hunger and food insecurity.
Second Helping is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, and this means donors may be eligible to deduct their donations on their taxes in accordance with IRS regulations.
Create a Virtual Food Drive
It’s even very easy to create a virtual food drive and eliminate the physical labor and resources required for traditional food drives by creating a virtual shopping experience.
Virtual food drives allow donors to symbolically purchase specific food items and see exactly how their money will be used to impactfully reduce hunger in our community.
Nearly anyone can create a Virtual Food Drive – including individuals, churches, community groups, companies, and other organizations.
Second Helping highlights the needs of the communities we serve by pre-selecting the products that fundraisers can “sell” through their Virtual Food Drives.
Fundraisers can easily customize their Virtual Food Drive and share it with their donor network by sending a unique link.
Proven conversion methods such as leaderboards and a scrolling donor section enable your donors and supporters to raise even more food donations.
Branding and messaging options enable your supporters’ Virtual Food Drive pages to stand out and gain attention.
At the conclusion of the Virtual Food Drive, Second Helping receives the food purchased from the food bank that we work with and these food donations help us advance our fight against hunger and food insecurity.
Monetary donations can also be accepted during Virtual Food Drives.
When a donor donates money during a Virtual Food Drive, it enables us to provide a certain number of meals to the people we serve.
At the conclusion of the Virtual Food Drive, Second Helping receives the money raised and these donations help us advance our fight against hunger and food insecurity.
Second Helping is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, and this means donors may be eligible to deduct their donations on their taxes in accordance with IRS regulations.
Stretching Your Donors’ Dollars Further
Individual fundraisers, team fundraisers, and Virtual Food Drives are a better and more efficient way to fight hunger and food insecurity than traditional food drives because Second Helping has wholesale buying power.
This means that every dollar donated to Second Helping provides even more meals for our hungry neighbors than a traditional food drive where donors generously donate food items that they have purchased at full retail cost.
This leverage allows us to receive more benefit from our donors’ generous contributions and in turn donate and share more food with food-insecure individuals across our community.
Get Started Today
Contact us today to discuss how easily you can get started as an Individual fundraiser, Team fundraiser, or host of a Virtual Food Drive.
