The Process of Conducting a Drive

  Every holiday season, we host drives to give underprivileged students something to look forward to during these traditionally joyous times. Every drive that we host is done so with utmost care, and with the intention of receiving as many school supplies as possible, from as many households as possible. To collect supplies in the most effective manner, we have developed a _ step process for every drive we conduct:

First, we design flyers that incorporate the holiday theme, explain our organization in a concise manner, describe the supplies that we are requesting, and illustrate the manner in which we will be collecting the supplies. Usually, we ask for people to put their excess supplies in a bag, attach a tag that was included with the flyer to the bag, and put the bag out on their front porch on their designated collection day.

After handing out the flyers, we constantly monitor our support email for any problems or questions that recipients of the flyer may have in regards to the collection of their school supplies.

Finally, on the designated collection day, we drive around to all the houses that we distributed a flyer to, collect all donated supplies, and safe-keep them until we are ready to make a donation to an underprivileged school.