5,000 tote bags in September - Here's How to Make It Happen

Thanks to a great rally from Podcamp Pittsburgh, we will cross the 4,000 mark tomorrow and the quest is on to get to a grand total of 5,000 bags by the end of September so we can wrap up Hunger Action Month with a bang.

There are multiple opportunities for you to help us do that

• Attend the Allegheny County Green Festival or the East End Food Co-op Harvest Festival with your bag. A $1.00 donation will purchase 1 bag courtesy of the Co-op.  We'll have activity page so you can go home and talk with your children about the project.  Details on both events are in the right hand column.
• Support our Girl Scout Drive, especially those of you in the South Hills.  Help them reach their goal of 420 bags!
• If you live in the North Hills, consider the Providence tote drive.  Two drop-off spots
• If you work for Alpern Rosenthal, make Tiffanie happy and bring in your bag. 
• If you took the Social Media Superhero challenge at Podcamp Pittsburgh 6, be sure to get your bag of groceries back to us.  Drop-offs not ideal for this, so please email us to figure it out.
• If you want to take the Social Media Superhero challenge, see next blog post.
• Live on the Northside?  Contribute to the AGH/North Side Leadership Conference drive. One week to go.
• Visit our drop-off spots with your donation.  We'll do a end of the month round up. 
• Not too late to ask your folks to contribute. Email your coworkers and ask them to drop the bags by your office. 
• Talk with your Girl Scout troop about starting a project. 
• If you attend an event, ask if we can have the excess tote bags. Call us and we'll see how fast we can hustle over to pick them up.

5,000 is a lot of bags and I did not envision being within reach of that number in five months. It is exciting.

It is also enough bags for 2% of the people served by the Food Bank.  At first glance, that seems small. But I keep thinking ... we are on the map now. We are making an impact, striking nerves and drawing all sorts of unique collaborators to our project.  Superheroes, quilters, brownie troops, accountants, podcasters, community development corporations, and international companies. Plus, lots and lots and lots of anonymous people that want to help.  What a great team.  Imagine what we'll accomplish in the next five months?