Virtual Food Drive

Eastern Illinois Foodbank is extremely pleased to offer an easy-to-use and highly effective and efficient way to bring food to your neighbors in eastern Illinois who are hungry - through a Virtual Food Drive.

With the simple click of a button, your donation can help the Foodbank provide food to the growing number of children and adults at risk of going hungry daily.

Click on Virtual Food Drive

Simply click on the Virtual Food Drive icon and then follow the 1, 2 and 3 steps illustrated. Order meals, pounds and boxes of food via the Virtual Food Drive, knowing each and every click you make of a button goes toward putting those foods on the table for others in need.

Virtual Food Drive at Work, School, Church or Other Organization

Perhaps your company or organization would like to have a Virtual Food Drive for all employees, or all members, or all students. Create a friendly competition for which group can generate the most bananas, apples, meals for a family of four, fruit juice or cases of corn. It's so easy to do and lots of fun for all.

We'd be pleased to work with you to arrange a Virtual Food Drive at your place of work, your school or church or other organization.

The food drive may be virtual, but be assured that the outcome - significant quantities of food for your neighbors at hunger risk - is very, very real!

 

It's a Virtual Food Drive

Company sponsored or organization-sponsored food drives are easy with the Virtual Food Drive internet-based technology, developed by Aidmatrix. Employees, clients, associates and others can all log onto the internet and participate in a company-wide drive. Simple click-and-drag food icons make donating easy, convenient and fun. Donating significant amounts of food, and doing so in a fully secured manner, is as simple as the click of a mouse.

The monies gifted enable the Foodbank to acquire, store and distribute extremely in-demand food items by truckloads and in bulk - far more economically than retail or even whole value prices of the foods.

Indeed, every dollar becomes leveraged ten times the value!

And, 100% of the funds donated through the Virtual Food Drive are used for food purchases!

Suggestions for a Successful Virtual Food Drive

Let us offer some suggestions on how to initiate a Virtual Food Drive:

• Establish a working goal for the drive.
  
  
• Schedule a Food bank representative to come to your site and provide an overview or answer questions and help rally employees, associates, clients, etc.
  
  
• Remind people that all of the funds provided go to food and that their individual,
  and your company-wide, gift support is multiplied by a factor of TEN - in terms of the amounts of foods actually acquired by the Foodbank by the dollars.
  
  
• Share important information, as provided on the Foodbank's website, such as about Warehouse Operations, Hunger in Eastern Illinois and Privacy Assurances as well as Frequently Asked Questions and the Fact Sheet.
  
  
• Email the Foodbank's web site and provide daily or periodic reminders to your employees, associates, clients, etc. and keep them advised on progress-to-date.
  
  
• Perhaps generate some incentive gifts or prizes such as movie passes or gift certificates, or special parking privileges or casual dress days.

For busy people, the Virtual Food Drive is a wonderful way to make a real difference, and for a company or organization, the Virtual Food Drive is an extremely efficient process.