Scouting for Food is coming! Door Hanger day will be on November 8th or 9th, and Food Pickup Day is November 15th starting at 9 am! We strongly encourage every Scout to participate, rain or shine. Please sign up with your patrol.
Timeline:
11/1 – 11/3, Sat-Mon – Patrol Leaders or ASMs pick up door hangers, 2410 Ramona St, Palo Alto
11/8 – 11/9, San-Sun – Door hanger weekend; each Patrol sets their own day and time.
11/15, Sat, 9am-12pm – Food Pick Up Day for all Patrols.
- All food must be dropped off by 12pm. Collection Point volunteers go from 9am – 2pm
- Collection Point: LDS Church at 3865 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303
Do’s and Don’ts:
Door Hanger Distribution:
Do have a buddy
Do wear your full Class A uniform.
Don’t open gates to get to the houses’ doors.
Don’t enter anyone’s house, politely decline if invited in.
Don’t approach dogs or enter yards with dogs.
If possible, the door hangers go on the doorknobs. If there is a gate in the way, hang it on that.
Pickup:
Do have a buddy
Do wear your full Class A uniform.
Don’t open gates to get to the houses’ doors.
Don’t approach dogs or enter yards with dogs.
Don’t take perishable or expired food or glass containers, leave these behind.
Make sure you are picking up an actual donation. Be careful not to pick up a food or package delivery.
Each Patrol, or Patrols if sharing a territory, should arrange a rendezvous point and distribute door hangers to their Scouts. Patrols will assign pairs (or more) of scouts to hang fliers on different streets together. Please refer to email for patrols/zones assignments. Ideally, the same Scouts that hang door hangers in a particular area should be the same Scouts that pick up donations the following week from that particular area because they will remember where they put door hangers. Make sure to wear your Class A uniform.
On Pick Up day, Scouts pick up food left in bags or boxes outside for pickup. If there are any glass containers or expired goods, leave those goods behind. Each group of scouts will need a parent driving a car to follow them to hold all the food. If a car runs out of space, the parent should do a food drop at the central Collection Point and return to their Scouts to keep collecting. Last delivery to the central Collection Point is 12pm. Collection Point is the LDS Church at 3865 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Scouts will be at the Collection Point and will be responsible for weighing donations collected per Patrol as they come in, sorting, and loading the collected food into cargo boxes or barrels provided by Samaritan House’s Trucker earlier. The Truck will return to collect all of the donated food between 1pm and 2pm. Late food collections will have to be dropped off at Samaritan House’s Food Pantry at 4031 Pacific Blvd in San Mateo. However, a drop off time will have to be arranged by emailing donationdrives@samaritanhousesanmateo.org . More info at samaritanhousesanmateo.org.
The donations we collect will help to feed those who need assistance throughout San Mateo County and parts of Santa Clara County. This is the single largest service project we support annually. Your help makes a difference and is greatly appreciated.