18th Annual Helping Hands Food Drive
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
On Campus: 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM
Off Campus: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Inspecting, Sorting, and Packing location: Center for Student Life Atrium
On-Campus collection location 7:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Drive up and Drop off at Center for Student Life, 301 Davis Street
Off-campus collection locations 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Walmart on Tiffin
Walmart on Trenton
Brinkmans
Great Scott on Broad Ave
Top 5 Most Requested Items:
Peanut Butter
Canned Fruit
Canned Soup
Bottled Juice
Cereal
Thursday, October 26: 3rd Annual Make and Partake, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m., featuring Chef Elias presenting how to make a Charcuterie Board
Friday, October 27: 3rd Annual Can-struction presented by Student Government Association kick off at 5 p.m.
- 2023 Sculpture Theme: “Scare Away Hunger”
- Constructing starts Friday Oct. 27 5 p.m. until Tuesday, Oct. 31 5 p.m.
- Three winners – Most Creative, Peoples Choice and Most Pounds
Monday, October 28 – Wednesday, November 1: Hancock School Golden Can Competition
- Area schools compete to collect and donate the most pounds per person in school
- Winning school get a pizza party and the Golden Can Trophy
Wednesday, November 1: Helping Hands Food Drive 7:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
- Home Base – Center for Student Life Atrium
- All food collected off campus arrive and is
- Inspected
- Sorted
- Packed
- Weight recorded throughout the day
- UF Campus Challenge
- Campus is divided up by Colleges and Divisions
- Compete to see which area collects and donates the most pounds of food per person on the team
- Winning College/Division gets the Emsweller Cup to display in their area all year
Thursday, November 2:
Thank you to the Findlay community for helping
with the 17th Annual Helping Hands Food Drive
Donating 238,732 lbs. of Food
Without the Helping Hands Food Drive, the homeless might go a day without food, or a struggling mother’s kids might have empty bellies for the night. When you donate, you ease the struggle that individuals have to go through. Donating to Helping Hands is definitely a great thing you can do!
In 2022, the goal was 215,000 pounds, it was exceeded and set a new school record! A total of 238,732 pounds of food was collected during the 24-hour marathon event. Two semi truckloads were needed to move 64 pallets of food that were collected and delivered to CHOPIN (Christians Helping Other People in Need) Hall food pantry.
Special thanks go to Garner Trucking Inc. for generously donating food and supplying two semi-trucks to accommodate all food transportation to CHOPIN Hall; Campbell's Soup Company, which made a substantial donation; and Walmart, which also donated a large amount along with providing community donation locations for food drop-offs.
2022 Facts
- 3,234 jars of peanut butter were collected (the most requested item).
- McComb Middle School won The Golden Can Award donating 5.2 lbs. per person.
- The College of Business won the faculty & staff challenge donating 1184 lbs. per person.
- To date: 1,336,695 total pounds have been collected and donated by the University of Findlay and Sodexo.
Year |
Total Pounds Collected |
Facts |
2022
| 238,732 lbs.
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New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2021
| 214,599 lbs.
| New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2020 | 165,735 lbs.
| New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected.
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2019 | 115,867 lbs.
| New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected.
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2018 | 111,436 lbs.
| New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected.
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2017 | 97,465 lbs.
| New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2016 | 74,446 lbs. | New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2015 | 64,392 lbs. | New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2014 | 49,957 lbs. | Second highest total in the history of the event. Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2013 | 55,022 lbs. | New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2012 | 47,287 lbs. | New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2011 | 37,271 lbs. | New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2010 | 26,324 lbs. | New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2009 | 17,825 lbs. | New record! Finishing first among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2008 | 12,641 lbs. | New record! Finishing third among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected. |
2007 | 6,544 lbs. | New record! Finishing second among college campuses nationwide for pounds of food collected |
2006 | 994 lbs. | This is the first year the food drive was introduced to all college campuses across the United States. |
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