The holidays can be quite hard on many families, especially when it comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. Thankfully, we have
From November 1st to November 14, SIRVA hosted a ‘SIRVA in Action Front Porch Food Drive and Fundraiser’, bringing in almost 6,900 donated meals to local food banks and pantries. The event included 15 separate Front Porch Food Drives from California to New York, and everywhere in between, including Canada. It also included more than 25 donors who all teamed up in the fight against hunger, donating over $1,200, equalling over 3,000 meals, to food insecure communities.
The SIRVA Fort Wayne office in Indiana paved the way for the Front Porch Food Drive, collecting a total of 1,000lbs of food to be donated to The Franciscan Center. Coming in second place are Sarah Rutherford and Helena Villar of Illinois, who collaboratively collected over 500lbs of food to be donated to the Northern Illinois Food Bank.
Here’s how it works: Move For Hunger provides almost all of the supplies and materials the food drive organizer needs to distribute food collection bags in their neighborhood. The organizer then distributes the bags early in the week and then goes back several days later to collect the food right from the front porch. If you’d like to learn more about Front Porch Food Drives, visit our Food Drive page!
Across the United States, over 42 million people are food insecure, including 1 in 6 children that
We extend a huge thank you to all of the moving partners who participated in the Front Porch Food Drive, including Boerman Moving & Storage, a Bekins Van Line Agent, Hoover The Mover, Moving Solutions Inc, both northAmerican agents, and the individuals who delivered the donations themselves!
Ready to make an impact? Check out our and Fundraising pages!