COVID can’t slow our network down. Even when the pandemic took hold across the world, our team and network responded by continuing to host food drives to meet the growing need, but also create a brand new socially-distant food drive.
The Front Porch Food Drive is simple in design. The organizer drops off collection bags around their neighbors with full instruction on how to donate food and what Move For Hunger is all about. They also state the time in which they will be back around to collect food. When the day approaches, neighbors simply have to leave their food out on the front porch to collect. No contact needed.
Over the course of the year, we’ve now held countless Food Drives & Front Porch Food Drives. Here are a few highlights:
Continental Societies is a national non-profit organization that serves over a quarter of a million of children and youth annually through programs in Health; Education; Employment; recreation; and arts and humanities. They also provide service programs in each local chapter along with scholarship opportunities.
The Miami Chapter hosted its very own Front Porch Food Drive to benefit the Homestead Food Kitchen. The Homestead Food Kitchen is in an area where almost a million people are food insecure and that number is dramatically increasing due to the pandemic. The food drive collected 2,300 lbs of food which is nearly 2,000 meals. This was the chapter’s first of hopefully many annual food drives with Move For Hunger and if the original is any indication, they will continue to make a big impact in their local community.
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In the neighboring state of Georgia, 
RentPath hosted its own Front Porch Food Drive. Known for easily connecting prospective renters and properties together through digital marketing and leasing solutions, they encouraged their own employees to get out and collect food from their respective neighborhoods. In total, 3 employees took up the challenge and that’s all that was needed to make a substantial difference.
From their Atlanta neighbors, RentPath employees collected 2,000 lbs which is about 1,650 meals that were donated to the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Annette Keith led the charge by collecting exactly 1,000 lbs of food herself. The food bank supports nearly 700,000 people as about 1 in 8 people in Fulton and Dekalb Counties is food insecure.
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While organizations stepped up to fight hunger, so did our transportation partners. A-One Moving based outside of Baltimore, Maryland. We got the call from KraftHeinz informing us that had 5 pallets of food they wanted to donate. We informed A-One Moving and they got right on it transporting the food from Hurlock, MD to Caring For Friends in Philadelphia. Caring For Friends provides food and friendship to homebound seniors, the disabled, homeless, and families in need. The transport was a big one - over 7,500 lbs of food which is the equivalent of about 6,400 meals.
Would you like to join in the fight against hunger? Host your own food drive or join our transportation network.
