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5 Ways Your Business Can Partner with Second Harvest!
- Start a cause marketing campaign: Cause marketing is a collaboration between for-profit businesses like yours and nonprofits like the food bank. Research shows that 75% of consumers are more likely to trust a purpose-driven brand. Let ending hunger in South Georgia be that purpose by partnering with Second Harvest! BOGOs, round ups, specialty items – there are endless options on how to integrate charitable giving into your customer-facing work.
- Encourage employee engagement through corporate matching: Matching programs help demonstrate your commitment to the communities where your team lives, works, plays, and worships. Some businesses match employee financial contributions, host workplace giving campaigns, or grants for individual employee volunteer hours. Second Harvest can tailor something that specifically meets your organization’s goals!
- Host a company volunteer day: Volunteerism is a great team-building experience. Working together at Second Harvest to build pantry boxes, pack weekend meals for kids, or hand out food is a wonderful way to foster a corporate culture of collaboration, kindness, and community. We can work with you to create a volunteer event that meets your goals. We can even bring in a meal and/or host your staff meeting to make a day of it!
- Donate food or in-kind products: Does your organization have surplus food or other products? Second Harvest can make sure that it goes to good use by collecting it and distributing it to those in need. Your business not only helps the community but also gets the financial benefit of the tax-deductible contribution and no disposal costs! (As a bonus, it helps the environment by keeping useable items out of the landfill.)
- Make a financial contribution: Of course, funds are what the food bank needs more than anything. Grants and gifts from corporations and foundations help fund our programs and operations. Named sponsorships are available for specific projects and programs. We can help you target your giving into the area that best matches your corporate values. Remember Second Harvest as you are creating next year’s budgets!
