A message from Brittany Cochenour, 2013 Campaign Coordinator of the Year
It all comes down to helping others. What a great feeling knowing your food & funds drive efforts can help a family have a hot meal on their table or give a child a healthy lunch. Individually we can make a difference, but it’s when we work together that we make a significant impact on the welfare of others. Coordinating the food & funds drive campaign helped raise awareness of just how serious hunger is in our community, and motivated Union Hospital to collect 8,000 pounds of food! While it was a very exciting feeling to have had such a great outcome to our food & funds drive it warmed my heart to know we were able to help so many people. Some best practices: • Get some healthy competition going in your workplace! Be creative! • Establish a theme for your internal competition, like ours “Hunger Games.” • Always be motivating and encouraging. We counted food & funds donated every Wednesday and Friday to keep interest high. • People like to know what they are donating towards. Example: $1 = 4 meals. • Educate on hunger and how it impacts your community. • Get your top management and leaders involved to encourage those they work it.
The Super Six boxed cereal peanut butter canned tuna canned vegetables canned beef stew canned soup
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