The Food Drive Kids

Fighting to End Childhood Hunger

Help Support Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts

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🚨Help Us Support Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts! 🚨
We know that getting resources to the hardest-hit areas is more important than ever, especially when it comes to hunger relief. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we will be selling these special edition “Together We Rise” t-shirts to help raise the funds that are urgently needed.

We will be selling these t-shirts, and in line with our mission to end childhood hunger, 100% of the proceeds will go to organizations providing hunger relief in the wake of Hurricane Helene, including MANNA Food Bank and Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC. These organizations have the infrastructure to distribute much-needed food and other necessities in the near term and long term during this recovery period.

Together, we can bring much-needed support to families facing hunger in the aftermath of this disaster. Every shirt sold makes a real difference—so get yours today and wear it proudly, knowing you’re helping communities rebuild! 🌄💪

👕 Get yours now and support a great cause! https://the-food-drive-kids.printify.me/products

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Help Fight Childhood Hunger and Get a Shirt!

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Since The Food Drive Kids’ 2020 Food Drive has been postponed, we are offering you another way to get this year’s t-shirt. The 2020 Food Drive Kids t-shirt is available with a donation of $25! 100% of the proceeds will go towards helping partners like the Interfaith Food Shuttle’s Backpack Buddies program, and stocking and expanding our network of little free pantries. This will help kids access food while they are out of school!

Please fill out the form below to make a donation to fight childhood hunger and get your limited edition Food Drive Kids t-shirt!


2022 Food Drive To Fight Childhood Hunger

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Our Annual Food Drive is our biggest and most impactful event of the year! Every year, we station volunteers at 10 grocery stores in the Triangle area and ask them to donate to help feed hungry kids. 2022 will be our 10th annual food drive.

On April 23, 2022, we had volunteers at the following stores collecting shelf-stable items from 10-6 to send home with kids on the weekends.

  • Food Lion – 3415 Avent Ferry Rd., Raleigh
  • Food Lion – 2420 Wycliff Rd., Raleigh
  • Food Lion – 8475 Holly Springs Rd., Raleigh
  • Food Lion – 2861 Jones Franklin Rd., Raleigh
  • Harris Teeter- 5563 Western Blvd, Raleigh (Collection ending at 4 PM)

If you can’t donate in person, you can donate online by clicking here.

In the last 10 years, we have collected over 65,000 pounds of food and over $65,000 to help end childhood hunger. This year we collected an additional $10,000 and 5,000! The food & funds collected go to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle to support their childhood hunger efforts, to help stock our network of Little Free Pantries, and other childhood hunger initiatives.

The Food Drive Kids install Little Food Pantries

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little food pantries

Thanks to the work of our Founder William Winslow during his Eagle Scout project, the Food Drive Kids have installed their first 2 Little Food Pantries. These first 2 pantries will provide food and toiletries to people in need. We realized that there is still a gap when kids can’t get food, and that is during long breaks from school. We also are seeing a need for things like basic toiletries that arent given through schools or covered by SNAP benefits. Because of this gap, The Food Drive Kids are now adding Little Food Pantries to their work. People have the opportunity to come and take food from these pantries at any time. The hope is that the neighborhoods surrounding these pantries will contribute to them as well to create sustainable Little Food Pantries. Our first 2 pantries can be found at:

More pantries have since been installed, they are located at:

“We realized that there is still a gap when kids can’t get food, and that is during long breaks from school.”

William Winslow, Founder, The Food Drive Kids

You can also see more Little Food Pantries across the country by visiting http://www.littlefreepantry.org/

Want to know what to buy and put in the pantries download a list here.

For more information on our Little Free Pantries please Contact Us.

Food Drive For Backpack Buddies – 2019

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2019 food drive for backpack buddies

2019 Food Drive for Backpack Buddies

Pounds of Food Raised
Dollars Raised
Number of Volunteers

The Food Drive Kids and their volunteers pulled off another amazing food drive for Backpack Buddies in 2019! We had over 160 volunteers sign up to help fight childhood hunger.These volunteers worked in 2 hour shifts at 10 grocery stores located in Raleigh, Cary, Apex, and Durham. With their help, and after some small changes in how we operated the food drive, we broke a record. In 2019 we collected more food than ever, pulling on over 11,700 pounds of food! We will continue to collect monetary donations for an additional week in hopes of reaching our cash goal of $10,000.

The food and money collected during this year’s food drive will go to support the Backpack Buddies program at The InterFaith Food Shuttle. The program serves almost 2900 children in central NC who are at risk of hunger by giving them backpacks of food to help sustain them on the weekends.

One of the most amazing things from 2019 was the growth in our volunteer pool. We have volunteers from all over the community as well as volunteers representing many organizations including Cub Scout Pack 398, Boy Scout Troop 398, MacNair’s Country Acres 4-H Club, Girl Scout Troop 1692, Raleigh Ki Aikido, and many others! Thanks to all of our donors and volunteers for making this year’s food drive a huge success.

The team at the Harris Teeter at Tryon Villiage collected more donations, both cash and food, than any other store!

Read about our annual food drive and other ways we fight childhood hunger here.