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Community Food Banks of South Dakota upcoming fundraising events, food drives and news - Sioux Falls and Rapid City

"Tan for a Can" at Year Round Brown - Year Round Brown Tanning Salons invites you to come "Tan for a Can." Just bring in any non-perishable food item to the Year Round Brown location near you November 18th-25th and Year Round Brown will offer you a free tan in appreciation for your donation. All donations benefiting the Sioux Falls Food Pantry. "Tan for a Can" is an annual event that continues to grow in success every year. Year Round Brown is proud to support the mission of the food bank and pantry in Sioux Falls.

Rapid City Wine & Dine - April 13-18, 2009. Celebrate a fun-filled week featuring fine wines and delicious food, an extraordinary silent auction and an exciting reverse raffle where you could win $1,000!

Student Hunger Drive - A food and fund drive that is coordinated through the Sioux Empire area middle schools. Each year during a two-week period in late November and early December, students from each participating school compete against each other to see who can collect the most food and funds. These wonderful young men and women collect over 20,000 pounds in food and over $20,000 in cash each year.

Sportsmen Against Hunger - A non-profit organization that encourages South Dakota hunters to donate a portion or all of their wild game to help in the fight against hunger. This program coordinates with local game processors who agree to process, at a reduced cost, wild game that will be donated to area hunger-fighting organizations. Additionally, each fall SAH sponsors a “Clean Out Your Freezer” drive to get hunters to donate their leftover game from the prior season. As meat is one of the more difficult products to get donated, the efforts of this group help provide a valuable and nutritious product to help those in need.

KOTA Care & Share Food Drive - This is a year-round event that KOTA television and radio in Rapid City promotes and sponsors throughout the year. Area companies and organizations are provided free air-time promoting their sponsorship of a food or fund drive. All food and funds collected throughout the year are divided between the Community Food Banks of South Dakota and Church Response.

Crazy Horse Memorial - From free admission with two cans of food during the off-season to food collected during the annual Volksmarch to the top of the monument (Memorial admission free to hikers with a suggested donation of cash or 2 cans of food per person), the Ziolkowski family has long sponsored events to collect food items and donated money to support the mission of the food bank and pantry in Rapid City.

National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive - This is a nationwide annual food drive event put on by the National Letter Carriers Union. Each spring, local letter carriers solicit and collect food donations from postal customers on their delivery routes. Between the Rapid City and Sioux Falls areas, we receive over 50,000 pounds in food donations.

Boy Scout Food Drive - This an annual food drive held by the Boy Scout Troops in Rapid City and Sioux Falls. In the late fall every year, Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops join forces to distribute food donation bags door-to-door throughout the city. At a later day or time, they return to collect those bags of donations. Through the efforts of these young men, we collectively receive over 60,000 pounds in much-needed food donations.







     

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