2023 Kids Helping Kids
Manna’s Kids Helping Kids is an anti-hunger campaign to mobilize students in Montgomery County schools to raise food and funds for their peers at risk of food insecurity across the county. This campaign teaches children valuable lessons about hunger, engages students in giving, and shows young people that they have the power to make a difference in their community. Thank you for joining this county wide effort to fight hunger!
FOR SCHOOL USE ONLY:
We need your help again! Please join Manna Food Center this year, October 1st-31st, as we continue this wonderful annual tradition of involving our local Montgomery County schools in the KHK food drive. This year, KHK will include both in-person food drives and virtual food drives! Please fill out the online registration form by Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
There are three ways to participate in Kids Helping Kids 2023:
- In-Person Food Drive: the classic! This type of food drive relies on the coordination and efforts of administrators and teachers to plan, collect, and aggregate healthy shelf-stable basics. Folks usually like to run their food drive for one week, and it’s up to the school to decide which week of October is best for them. It requires a primary contact that works within the school building, and we recommend bringing in parents as resources for help if possible. If your school’s in-person food drive generates more than 300 pounds of food, Manna is happy to arrange a truck to come pickup the goods. (Note: pickups may take up two weeks following the end of your drive due to volume and the food must be aggregated near an external door or loading dock)
- Virtual Food Drive: the easiest! This type of food drive is done by Manna creating a custom giving page for your drive that lends the flexibility of anytime, anywhere access. It is also highly customizable (with your logo and students’ stories!) and can run for the entire month of October. The virtual drive also features a county-wide school leaderboard, if a little bit of friendly competition with other schools would go a long way for your students!
- Combined Virtual and In-Person: the best of both worlds! This option would let your school host both a shorter in-person food drive and raise funds online all month long.
*For School use only: Please click here to register your school today!
For your convenience, here are some helpful documents to get your food drive started. Click the images below to download:
