Group Opportunities

Most of our group activities are off-site and can be done and organized on your own. The following activities are the best ways that you and your group can help us:

1. Participate in one of our Upcoming Annual Events, such as eating at a participating restaurant on RSVVP Day, Walking the CROP Walk or volunteering or participating in our annual golf tournament. See and read about events on our homepage.

2. Conduct a Food/Personal Hygiene Item Drive. You can print this template, modify it to your taste, and put it on your neighbors' doors. You can then collect the items from their doorstep on the specified day, and bring them to the appropriate IFC locations.

3. Do something clever to raise food, like have a talent show and charge admission with canned food, put out bins around UNC or other places (with permission), hold a car wash, etc.

4. Make personal hygiene kits that we can hand out to the people that come to our shelters. Collect items like toothbrushes, toothpaste, washcloths, floss, soap, shampoo, razors, shaving cream, deodorant, feminine products, combs, q-tips, etc., and divide them into individual sized zip-lock bags.

5. Birthday Bags: Here is a fun project for children, Mothers’ groups, teens or other community organizations that seek participation with the IFC Food Pantry. Put the following items in a gift bag: one boxed cake mix, one can of frosting/icing, birthday candles and a generic birthday card. The birthday bags can then be delivered to the IFC Food Pantry where they will be distributed to families with upcoming birthdays.

The Ultimate Birthday Party: Instead of birthday presents at your next birthday party, have your guests bring assembled Birthday Bags to the party. Donate the collected bags to the IFC Food Pantry for those in need.

6. Our kitchen coordinator would like help supplementing the meals we serve in the kitchen. Fill disposable aluminum pans (you can get 30 for $10-$15 at Sam's Club) with prepared foods and date it. For example, you can fill the pans with: casseroles, mashed potatoes, green beans, cooked cabbage, or any other "meat, vegetable or starch." It would go directly onto the serving line, which is why the aluminum pans, with date written on them, are key.

7. Adopt a Weekly Food Pickup Shift. Contact Karen Carr for more information: (919) 929-6380, ext. 30 or volunteer@ifcmailbox.org.