How It Works

Our simple system is built around 2 kinds of volunteers: Food Donors and Neighborhood Coordinators

A woman with dark short hair, wearing a blue striped shirt, is handing a green bag of food and a red card to a woman with long dark hair, wearing a yellow shirt, at her doorstep.

1. Sign Up

Neighborhood Coordinators sign up friends and neighbors to be regular Food Donors. Every Food Donor gets our resuable green bag.

A woman and a girl shopping in a grocery store aisle with a shopping cart.

2. Shop for a Little Extra

Each week when Food Donors go food shopping, they buy an extra nonperishable item (or two) for hungry neighbors, take it home and store it in the bag.

Green reusable bag filled with various grocery items sitting outside near a red door with a doormat and greenery.

3. Leave the Bag

Every two months—on the second and third Saturdays of every even month—Food Donors put their green bags outside their front doors.

4. Deliver the Food

Neighborhood Coordinators pick up all the full green bags in their neighborhoods and leave the empty ones for next time. They take the bags to the BFP collection site where volunteers are waiting to unload their cars, empty the bags, and sort all the food.

Everybody Wins!

By the end of the day, all the food is ready to distribute to our neighbors in need. We share the good news about how much food we’ve collected. Then we do it again!

Donate Food

Collect Food

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