How you can host a food drive to help families in need during Thanksgiving

The School-Community Partnership Program is grateful for its partners’ unending generosity to the Clark County School District (CCSD) throughout the year.

“Usually in this space we tell our readers about the different ways they can make a contribution to CCSD to improve our public schools, but this time we would like to trade places and let them know about a great nonprofit organization that could use their assistance,” says Dr. Beverly Givens, director of the School-Community Partnership Program.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, one of CCSD’s partners, HELP of Southern Nevada, is organizing its annual Thanksgiving Food Drive and is looking for businesses and other groups to host food drives. HELP of Southern Nevada is seeking items so its clients can prepare a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner and, as the nonprofit says, “make memories with their families.”

CCSD schools have directly assisted this nonprofit. Last year, 43 schools organized Thanksgiving food drives for HELP of Southern Nevada on their campuses.

HELP of Southern Nevada expects it will offer assistance to more than 1,100 families in need this year.

The biggest need is for instant mashed potatoes, graving, stuffing, vegetables, cranberries and desserts, such as pie filling. But, as HELP of Southern Nevada notes, it will gratefully accept donations of any nonperishable items.

HELP of Southern Nevada can provide boxes for a business/group to organize and collect items for a food drive, and the nonprofit can deliver the boxes to you (or you can provide your own).

If you would like to host a Thanksgiving Food Drive, click here to learn more about how to host a donation drive, or email Thanksgiving@helpsonv.org. You may also phone 702-369-4357, Monday through Thursday (7 a.m. to 5 p.m.), to ask how you can get involved.