Holiday Meals
At Food For Neighbors, we're so thankful for your generous support to help us provide more than 250 Thanksgiving meals for local students and their families.
Welcome to Food For Neighbors®
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There are now more than 900 kids receiving weekly food support
at 16 area middle and high schools!
Food For Neighbors is a non-profit organization (located in Herndon, VA) helping to feed students who struggle with hunger after school, on weekends, and during school holidays. We provide local middle and high schools with individual meals and snack items to distribute during these times when students might otherwise go hungry. We connect with their social workers and help the schools set up a weekend snack program or food pantry to distribute the food.
We provide the platform for schools to engage their local community to donate food and gather volunteers that help with picking up donations, sorting the food and dispersing to schools in their area. This is done through our Red Bag Program where we distribute Red Bags with a list of items needed and then collect the bags bimonthly on a Saturday. We also provide support and marketing materials for schools to engage their community to recieve in-kind donations from individuals, area businesses, local churches, and stores.
Our program began in Herndon, VA where the local community quickly responded to the need for food at our middle and high schools. Now our students are benefitting weekly from the consistent and reliable source of donated food. FFN has expanded into the Springfield, VA area, neighboring schools in Loudoun County and most recently the Falls Church, VA area. As more schools hear about FFN, we are met with requests to bring the program to their schools. We are currently launching in the Fort Hunt, VA area.
We are excited to expand into other schools in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties! Our goal is to end hunger for middle and high school students who live with food-insecurity.
We appreciate your continued support!
You Make a Difference!
Since the first Red Bag Collection in November 2016, Food For Neighbors® has collected over 68,000 lbs of food for local students. We started supporting two local Herndon schools and have grown to support 16 schools in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.
We now have over 800 households and over 200 volunteers participating in the collection program.
Look how FFN has grown...thanks to YOU!
September 2019 - 7,100+ lbs of food from over 600 households
November 2016 - 550 lbs of food from 60 households
Local businesses are also making a difference by partnering with Food For Neighbors or hosting fundraisers. To learn more about how you can help support these generous organizations, click HERE.
If you would like more information on Food for Neighbors, or want to know how you can get involved, please click on the here or email us directly at contact@FoodForNeighbors.org.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that will
overwhelm the world.
- Desmond Tutu
Upcoming Events
The next bag collection will be Saturday, Oct 26th.
Please leave your filled red bag by your front door
no later than 8:30am.
Upcoming Red Bag dates, here.
Add dates to your calendar here.
If you forget to put out your bag, click HERE.
Need the list of the food we collect?
Our program is growing and we need your help.
Would you like a Red Bag?
Making a Difference
For the September 2019 collection, we received over
7,100 pounds of food
from over 600 participating households.
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support FFN every time you shop. Click HERE to get started.
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Connect with us on Facebook to learn about upcoming projects and volunteer opportunities, and see photos of our FFN volunteers in action.
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