food drives
Community hunger efforts
Food drives are organized efforts to collect donated food items for distribution to people in need.
Typically coordinated by schools, churches, workplaces, or community organizations, they gather nonperishable goods—canned vegetables, pasta, peanut butter—for local food banks or shelters.
The office held a food drive before Thanksgiving.
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- shelf stableSafe unrefrigerated for months
- donationsGifts to organizations
- givingTransferring to another
- giving backContributing to others' welfare
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Free meal centers for poor
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