Scouting for Food
Scouting for Food is an popular food drive service project for scouts. While usually held in March as a coordinated annual event, many individual scout units and families have held their own food drive. It is a cornerstone event for Good Turn service.
Typically scouts walk neighborhoods and leave a "door-hanger" or other invite with residents. This notices announces a coordinated pickup to happen on a certain weekend (Saturday Morning) and residents are invited to leave a bag of donated non-perishable foods, toys or other high-demand consumable products for donation to a local charity, food bank, or homeless shelter.
Adopt-A-Charity
This service project is a grand opportunity for scout units to learn about a specific charity operations in their neighborhood (as required in the Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge). The scout troop can help them an important need they have to collect food and other donations. The scouts can also have the opportunity to learn about other ways they can do joint projects with the charity, including:
- Eagle Service Projects to improve their facilities
- Eagle Service Projects to serve their constituency
- Eagle Service Projects to do a special donation drive
- Prepare meals for the patrons of the charity
- Repairs, cleaning and other maintenance
- Provide publicity and referrals for the facility
Unit Preparation
Make a plan in your Scout Unit to participate as a Patrol or Family.