Welcome to the St. Jane de Chantal Greg Gannon Canned Food Drive!
We are looking forward to collecting more CANS OF HOPE to share with our neighbors in need. The eighth-grade class will be working together in the territories around De Chantal. This is an eighth-grade event but if you are interested in helping collect cans in your neighborhood, contact Stephanie McGovern at stephaniemcgovern@ggcfd.org or 202-368-7198.
Remember ALL volunteers need to register.
Territory assignments are not lost, we just need to start with fresh contact information.
Complete the form below and add any family members.
Please ask other adults/families on your team to do the same thing.
Territories have been created by dividing neighborhoods around a parish into about 175 houses. As a Territory Team Member, you will be responsible for the food collection in that area. Please be sure to refer to your territory map to be sure of the streets and "sides" of the streets in your territory. Please stay on the inside of your boundary and only visit houses on your side of the outside street.
You will be given all of the supplies you need to collect food in your territory: bags, flyers, thank you door hangers and a map. Instructions to successfully collect in your territory will be provided and can be found below in Helpful Hints and Resources.
Between Sunday and Thursday before the collection date, please distribute your bags and flyers. This gives your neighbors enough time to shop or select items from their cupboards for your Saturday collection day.
On drive day, go back to the same houses and collect filled bags left outside. Please do not collect before the time on your flyer. Hopefully, the bags are prominently set out, but please drive slowly to be sure you don't miss any and don't hesitate to knock on doors to remind neighbors to support those in need. After you have gone through your territory once, please go through again to pick up bags which may have been left out late.
Many volunteers are needed on Drive Day to help at the collection site. We need help directing the food as it arrives in territory leaders' vehicles and as it goes out in recipient organization vehicles. Then of course we need many hands to move the donations quickly and efficiently. No matter how careful territory volunteers are when collecting their items, some bags are missed. Our donors often call to have their bag picked up and we need help organizing these calls and picking up the bags. EVERY CAN COUNTS!
Eighth-grade teacher Mr. Molloy is coordinating and will be communicating.
Distribute the bags with stapled flyers on Wednesday November 29th after the HSPT. We want neighbors to have time to purchase food to participate. Please follow your territory map and do not cross your outside boundary street.
Please join us on Saturday morning at 8:30 am in the church parking lot for a prayer service to kick off our day of service.
Make your way through your territory to collect the bags of donations. Use the Can Count Sheet to count as you collect! Bring your loaded bags to DeChantals back parking lot where we will have local food banks and shelters to receive the food. Remember to make one last run through your territory to make sure you picked up all of the bags!
Please keep an eye out in your territory or on your daily path for any bags which might have been missed. Please feel free to pick it up and bring it to school...EVERY CAN COUNTS!
If your family or business is interested in sponsoring our event, please contact us.
Stephanie McGovern: 202-368-7198
Stephanie McGovern: stephaniemcgovern@ggcfd.org
collected to date by DeChantal!