The Food Bank of Northern Nevada is gearing up for our annual Share Your Christmas Drive By Food Drive's 32nd year.
The FBNN is getting their empty trucks, totes and barrels ready for Friday to collect as much food as possible from the community's donations.
When you give back during Share Your Christmas, you're helping more than 150 agencies locally, and when you give back to the rural locations like Carson City, Minden and Fernley the food donated stays in those locations.
Jocelyn Lantrip, the Head Director of Marketing for the Food Bank of Northern Nevada says “This food drive has been going on for 32 years. It started in a much different place. It was at one location. I understand people were making soup, bringing it down for the volunteers, and now it is just a giant force to be reckoned with.”
Some of the things you can donate are as follows:
- Proteins like canned tuna and canned chicken
- Hearty soups
- Chilis
- Stews
- Rice
- Pasta
- Canned vegetables and canned fruit
- Cereal
- Peanut butter
They're looking for anything sustainable on shelves, and they ask that you limit glass donations as they have a higher risk of breaking in the donation barrels.
Lantrip tells us “We look forward to this every single year it’s very important to the Food Bank. The community, all of the people who we’re serving, all of the partner agencies who receive food, we need that food.”
Unfortunately, the need for food in the community is growing.
Lantrip adds “It’s bigger in scale unfortunately, because it needs to be bigger in scale and we have a great very generous community who always shows up and helps.”
She also encourages the community “Come down! You can drive by and drop off your donations you don’t even have to get out of your car. We have tons of volunteers signed up to empty those donations out of your car and we would love to see you there.”
Because every year we strive to fill the food banks during the event for the entire year.
Lantrip explains “I would love to break last year's record and so would everyone else I know that a lot of the agencies are very competitive in the different areas and we love that competitive nature because what happens when people are competitive with a food drive like this is more people get fed and that’s really what we’re trying to do out there.”
