Overview
- The 34th annual Stamp Out Hunger drive, which runs Saturday, asks residents to leave unopened, nonperishable food by their mailboxes for pickup along regular routes.
- Donations stay local, with partners setting goals that include 500,000 pounds in San Antonio, 100,000 in Santa Barbara County, and 10,000 in Missoula.
- Organizers ask for shelf-stable items like canned meats, peanut butter, rice, pasta, and cereal, and they urge people to avoid glass, expired goods, and perishable foods.
- Food banks say the timing helps families as school meals pause for summer, and Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia will stock its Summer Feeding Program after distributing 100,000 blue donation bags with support from the Wawa Foundation.
- Volunteers are key to sorting and transport in many cities, and the National Association of Letter Carriers calls this the nation’s largest one-day food drive, with nearly 2 billion pounds collected since 1993.