Toy/Food Drive

Quill and Scroll chapters can help others give back to their community. Toy and food drives can provide many people in need with assistance and can serve as an opportunity to get more involved with local businesses and organizations. Chapters could host a toy/food drive in an effort to help out their community and those that are in need.

Quill and Scroll Guiding Principles:

Leadership, Initiative

Materials: 

  • Collection box
  • Poster for the box
  • Flyers to hang around the school
  • A prize for potential raffle winners (could solicit from a local business)

Set up:

  • Find a place to put the collection box 
  • Create a poster board to go alongside the box
  • Produce flyers to promote around the school
  • Have a prize for donators to winner via raffle in order to increase participation

Step-by-step instructions:

  1. Reach out to hospitals, orphanages, community homes, or nondenominational organizations to find a place to donate to.
  2. Create a collection box for the donations to go in.
  3. Schedule a time for donation collection and drop-off.
  4. Locate a place to put the collection box (could be in a library or cafeteria).
  5. Have some members make a poster board to go with the collection box. On the poster board you can include all the information about the drive.
  6. Make flyers with information about the drive to hang around the school.
  7. Have each person who donates leave their name so they can enter into a raffle to win a prize.
  8. Drop-off all the donations to the place that your chapter chose.
  9. Pick a winner and give them the prize that your chapter came up with.