If you’re planning an office drive, get management involved- offer an incentive for bringing items. Have your coworkers “pay” 5 food items to be able to dress down on Friday, or ask management to offer up a half day to the person or department that brings the most items. See if your company would be willing to match cash donations, or match each food item donated with $1. Send emails to everyone in the office and put up flyers in high-traffic areas such as bathrooms, elevators and bulletin boards.

Lots of people forget to bring their items while they are dealing with the everyday stress of life and prefer to make monetary donations. Checks can be made out to “South Kitsap Helpline.” If you plan to collect cash donations, please contact us for a cash can. You can bring that back along with any checks received to our main office between 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday when you drop off the food collected and we will provide you with receipts showing the total amount of food and funds raised by your group. If you need to make donations before or after our business hours listed above, please contact our oiffice at 360-876-4089 in advance to work out logistics so we can ensure someone is available and on-site to receive them.