Our Development Team is more than happy to help you organize and develop a plan that works for your group. Please contact Katie Rhodes by phone at 607-734-9784 x2133 or by email with any ideas or questions regarding your drive. In the meantime, here are a few steps to help get you started.
- Determine what your drive will be collecting. Here is a page with items we always need.
- Recruit individuals to help you and assign roles to individuals who will champion the drive.
- Establish goals such as how much you would like to collect or how much money you would like to raise.
- Determine a start and end date for your drive as well as the sites for donations (i.e. collection bins). High traffic areas where your collection sites are most visible are often best.
- Determine a way to get the donations to Catholic Charities. Please know that we greatly appreciate your donations, however, we are unable to pick them up.
- Create a plan to help promote your drive in order to increase productivity and reach your goals more quickly. Will your drive be internal or will it include outreach to the public?
- If it’s open to the public, tag us in your social media posts! Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
- Determine what supplies you will need to make your drive successful. Catholic Charities can supply you with brochures, logos and other information about our agency.
- Begin and continue to promote your drive. Encourage individuals to donate and thank them when they do! Healthy competition among classrooms, departments, or teams is a good way to get people involved.
- Gather your results and let the participants know how the drive went. Thank them again for participating and arrange a time with Katie to drop off your items at Catholic Charities.