SIFE Campbell’s Soup ‘Let’s Can Hunger’ – Cook-Out for Cans Update
Saturday, March, 5th was a very successful night for the Campbell’s food drive team. We held a cookout for students who were invited to attend if they brought donations of cans of food for the local food bank. We sent out 800 invitations and over 40 people attending the event. At the end of the evening we had accumulated over 450 net pounds of non perishable food and $100.00. There were some uncontrollable factors that had some negative effects on the cook out. There was a major golf tournament for students that day where many alumni came into town which reduced the number of guests attending. There was also a good chance of rain in the early to late part of the evening which kept many people inside for the night. The event was still profitable and contributed a significant amount to the team’s overall target of 5000lbs of food.
Initially, as a team, we invested about $230.00 into the cook out for food, nonalcoholic drinks, paper goods, a deposit to use the facility, and entertainment. And going into this activity we thought we should generate anywhere from 800-1220 gross pounds of food from the cookout, but we didn’t factor in the chances for cash donations, which ended up being significant. So, given our performance metrics, if you give our 450 net pounds a ballpark estimation then we probably came out to about 600-650 pounds of gross food. So, given our 600-650lbs plus the $100.00 made in cash.
Written by: Adam Burgamy
Posted in Teaching and Learning