Take the Food `n Fun Challenge and Help Feed Local Families Year-Round!

CAC’s Food `n Fun Challenge is a year-round, community-wide food drive contest. Enter a team from your business, school, congregation, neighborhood, civic group or club to collect food for CAC! Food drives must be complete by the end of April. Groups are encouraged to schedule a “Food Sorting Service Day” at CAC. Awards are announced every May and given to organizations/businesses/schools for the most food collected!

HOW TO TAKE PART IN THE FOOD `N FUN CHALLENGE:

Plan your food drive for the time of year that best works for your group.
Deliver your food collection by April 15, awards announced in May of each year.
Challenge your rivals to see who can collect more food!
Please let us know of your drive and when you plan to deliver your collection, contact development@ourcac.org
If you want food collection barrels from CAC please contact development@ourcac.org
Print the CAC Food Drive List
Print the Food `n Fun Challenge Flyer

Why Take the Food `n Fun Challenge?

The Challenge stocks the CAC Food Pantry to provide for local families in need year-round and eliminate child huger in the summer months. In CAC’s service are of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody an estimated 33,815 citizens live with yearly incomes below $45,000 for a family of four. As many as 80 percent of CAC clients say they miss one meal every day to make ends meet. One in five local children suffer from food insecurity. During the summer months, families face additional financial stress as food costs increase when children are home during summer school vacation and not receiving free lunches at school. While requests for food assistance typically increase during the summer, donations to the food pantry typically decline. CAC provides food to about 500 families a month, many come to the pantry weekly.

Your team can help “Stomp out Hunger” in our community! Participation creates awareness of hunger issues in our local community and collects food and funds for CAC’s food pantry program which enhances the quality of life for everyone CAC serves.

Every year teams from businesses, congregations and schools throughout the Sandy Springs and Dunwoody communities collect about 50,000 pounds of food to provide for families in need during the summer months. Awards are given every May to organizations for the most food collected in the Schools, Business, Congregation and Civic categories. For Food ‘n Fun Challenge information please email development@ourcac.org.

Groups Collect 50,000 Pounds of Food

Every year, groups from schools, congregations, businesses and civic organizations take part in CAC’s Food `n Fun Challenge, a community-wide food drive. They collect 50,000 pounds of food to provide for families who rely on the school lunch program and need help during the summer. Throughout the year, CAC help 500 families a month; this number which grows to 800 in the summer months. Winners of the Food `n Fun Challenge are announced at the Food `n Fun Celebration the first Friday in May each year.