Annual Food Drive

ACHS FOOD DRIVE INFO & BOX SET CHECKLIST 2021

The Archbishop Carroll High School community has enjoyed a decades long tradition and commitment to a Thanksgiving Food Drive. Students, parents, alumni, and supporters take on an important mission-driven operation — to combat hunger in our local community.

Each year, donations are collected, sorted and repacked to provide over 300 Thanksgiving dinners — including a turkey, trimmings, and a week's worth of pantry supplies — to local families in need. Last year with the world wide COVID shut downs, Carroll rallied to continue the food drive with socially safe procedures and through God’s grace and your generosity we were able to meet and exceed our goal of feeding over 300 families. As the pandemic’s impact continues, we are committed this year again to serving those families in need in our community and continuing to grow the Food Drive program to meet the challenges of our community today.

As alumni you know firsthand the importance of this work at Carroll and why your continued participation as alumni is so important. As we did last year, we are asking each student, parent, alumni and public supporter, to collect the required food items for at least one family in need on their own and package them in two medium boxes which can then be delivered to campus. There will be a special Alumni Collection Day on Sunday, November 21, 2021.

In addition to food donations, we continue to take monetary donations to assist in buying turkeys, food and other supplies and resources for the Food Drive or the Food Pantry. Your generosity will ensure this long standing Archbishop Carroll tradition of compassion, empathy and service continues to thrive. All donations are tax-deductible.

To support with a monetary donation:

Make an online Food Drive donations here: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/archbishop-carroll-high-school/food-drive

To donate by check, send checks payable to Archbishop Carroll High School (food drive in memo) to:

Advancement Department

Archbishop Carroll High School

4300 Harwood Road, NE

Washington, DC 20017

(One Thanksgiving basket with turkey costs approximately $130.)

If you would like to volunteer with the Food Drive efforts at the school, assisting with the collection of Alumni Food Drive boxes or other Alumni activities please contact: Stacy Rubens, Director of Alumni & Constituent Affairs at [email protected].

To commit to a assembling one box set of all items on the list (list & instructions on assembly below), contact Stacy Rubens to receive a box number assignment (Alumni boxes will begin at 200a & 200b), collect the items per the directions, placing them into two medium to small boxes (if you need boxes you can pick up donated ones at Carroll during any of the hours below) and then deliver the boxes to Carroll. Drop off times and hours during either school business hours:

Monday through Friday 7:30- AM - 5:00 PM during school hours
Saturdays, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- - October 30th
  - November 6th, 13th and 20th

ACHS FOOD DRIVE BOX SET CHECKLIST

Please check off each item as you put it in the box and place this completed form in the box. Do not seal the box! Deliver completed boxes to Archbishop Carroll. (Dates and times are listed above.)

✓	Food for One Family Should Contain (separate into 2 evenly weighted boxes)
	Green Beans - 2 cans
	Beans (Black, Kidney, Pinto etc.) - 4 cans
	Soup - 6 cans
	Vegetables misc/mixed. - 4 cans
	Corn - 2 cans
	Sweet Potatoes or Yams - 1 can
	Oil (Vegetable, Canola etc.) - 1 bottle
	Spaghetti/Tomato sauce - 2 cans/jars
	Gravy - 1 can/jar/packet
	Dried potatoes - 2 boxes
	Flour - 1 bag
	Sugar - 1 bag
	Pancake Mix - 1 box/bag
	Cereal/Oatmeal - 1 box
	Stuffing - 1 box/bag
	Cranberry Sauce - 1 can
	Pasta - 3 boxes/bags

Business hours for Food Drive Drop Off (which ends Sunday, November 21st):

Monday through Friday 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturdays 9 - 1 pm
Alumni Day on Sunday, November 21st, Noon to 5 pm

	Tuna/Seafood/Spam/Other Meat - 4 cans
	Rice - 3 bags/boxes
	Corn Muffin Mix - 2 boxes
	Snacks - 1 box Cake/Brownie Mix AND/OR 2 Snack Items (Pudding, Cookies, Crackers etc.)
	Add 4-6 of These Items as Available
	Dried Beans - 1 bag
	Salad Dressing - 1
	Ketchup or Other Condiment - 1
	Juice or Soda - 1
	Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate - 1 box
	Peanut Butter - 1 jar
	Jelly or Jam - Jar
	Mac n Cheese - 2 boxes
	Fruit or Applesauce - 2 cans/jars
	Other
	Two Thanksgiving Cards (1/box)

Please print out the list and bring it with the box. If you need boxes, we have them both at Carroll which you can pick up during business hours (listed above). Please bring a mask when you visit Carroll High School and the Supervisor staff at the front doors can assist you with boxes.