Help us provide nutritious meals to those in need.

Partnership Guidelines

Both food drives and fund drives are beneficial to the food bank. As one dollar equates to six meals and six meals is 7.2 pounds of food. This means that a drive that collects 150 pounds of food equates to 125 meals!

Your financial support and advocacy enables us to provide nutritious food to our neighbors. Please use these guidelines to plan your event. FBEM must approve any fundraising event before contributions can be solicited in our name. Before planning your event, please use the Event Partnership form below to register and a staff member will follow up with your submission.

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan is an equal opportunity provider. For any questions please contact kmcglaughlin@fbem.org or call (810) 396-0241 and let us know you are interested in organizing an event.

*Form preferably submitted 30 days prior to event (at least 10 days).

What Are Food/Fund Drives?

A Fund Drive can be a stand-alone event or take place at the same time as a Food Drive. Some organizations keep their event internal, but for a bigger impression we encourage you to share the link on social media and in other company communications to your patrons. To maximize impact, consider offering to match the donations raised during your campaign. You can set a specific time frame or dollar amount for your matching gift and since every $1 raised equates to 6 meals a gift of any size really does provide more nutrition for our neighbors in need. Food and Fund Drives are great ways for your organization to give back to the community and offer hope to those who need it most.

Food Drives
Food Drives are simply the collection of nonperishable food items (primarily canned or boxed food). They make great visual statements during an event and can provide fun competition between groups, teams or departments. The Food Bank will supply you with promotional materials such as fliers, brochures, fact sheets and lists of suggested food donations.

Fund Drives
Fund Drives are a great tool for giving back without a physical collection of items. When you host a Fund Drive, the Food Bank creates an online campaign page for your organization which can feature a goal for your giving. Your staff and clientele can donate directly through this page or create their own free fundraising account and personally raise additional funds on behalf of your campaign for the Food Bank. Participation is easily tracked and creates friendly competition to see which group or individual raises the most money to fight hunger!

Resources

We are happy to provide

Approved printable FBEM materials such as programs, brochures, fact sheets & logo use
Online donation portals specific to your event & personalized QR code flyer
Written tax receipts for donations made payable to FBEM (Food Bank of Eastern Michigan)
Social media promotion will be shared at the discretion of the Food Bank. Please see the Marketing and Publicity guidelines. Be sure to tag us so we can see it!

We cannot provide

Financing, sponsorships, or solicitation of in-kind support
Donor, volunteer, or board member information
Volunteers for your event
Permits, licenses, insurance
Events that compete or conflict with an already established or scheduled event
Marketing material that requires the Food Bank to create ads, posters, or print materials

Marketing & Publicity

Only hi-res or vector versions of our logo may be used. Contact us for more info.
Event publicity is the responsibility of organizers (any promotional materials must be reviewed by FBEM).
Please list the event name followed by “benefitting” or “to benefit” the Food bank of Eastern Michigan.
All social media publicity is the sole responsibility of event organizers. Please tag FBEM and it will be shared at our discretion. (facebook.com/foodbankofemich or on Instagram at thefoodbankofeasternmichigan.

Legal & Financial

Legal Guidelines

FBEM is not liable for any injuries sustained by event volunteers or participants related to a fundraising event benefitting FBEM.
You are responsible for obtaining any necessary permits, licenses, and insurances required, including those for raffles, drawings, and other games of chance.

Financial Guidelines

Event organizers are responsible for payment of all event expenses.
If FBEM is only receiving a portion of the event proceeds, this must be clearly disclosed.
Tax laws do not allow event partnership coordinators to use our tax exemption for purchases. All other IRS regulations must be followed.
FBEM can issue tax receipts to donations, but only if they are made directly to the FBEM. To provide a tax receipt, the following will need to be provided for each donor: name, complete mailing address, donation amount, and the value of goods and services the donor received in return for the contribution.