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Poverty and hunger are among the many challenges some students face on a daily basis and often become a barrier to their success in school. Bright Futures Frederick/Winchester developed the weekend Food Pack Program to address the ongoing problem. The Food Pack Program aims to help families who experience food insecurity by offering a bag of food that children can take home with them on Friday to help get them through their weekend until their next school meal on Monday morning.
The Food Pack Program currently serves over 1,500 students at all grade levels in all Frederick County and Winchester City Public Schools each week.
Each food pack includes enough food to cover two breakfasts and two lunches. The food packs also include fruit, vegetables, and drinks. The food is all donated or provided by donated dollars and then purchased by Bright Futures.
Each month, over 6,000 food packs are provided to students. More than 48,000 non-perishable food items are needed monthly to meet the current need.
Each Food Pack is made possible by 100% volunteer manpower. Rotating teams of volunteers from community organizations come to Bright Futures to assemble the food bags.
Host a Food Drive for Bright Futures!
Host a Food Drive for Bright Futures!
Food drives are an incredible way for our community to come together and support students facing food insecurity. Your generosity helps us provide essential weekend food bags that keep students nourished and ready to learn.
What to Collect:
To ensure we can use your donations effectively, we ask that food drive collections focus on specific items. Please see our full list of needed items at the bottom of this page.
Our weekend food bags are strategically packed to meet specific nutritional and logistical needs, and these items play a vital role in that effort. Please note that we can only accept items that are not expired to ensure food safety for the students we serve.
Get Started:
We’ve made it easy to spread the word about your food drive! Use the Canva links below to create and customize your own flyers:
Additionally, we’ve included two social media tiles that you can edit and customize to help promote your food drive online:
Make a copy of any design to edit and tailor it for your organization or event!
Questions?
We’re here to help! For more information or assistance, contact us at stinedoe@fcpsk12.net
Thank you for your incredible support—together, we can make sure no student goes hungry.
Other Needed food items
Other Needed food items
Ready-to-eat Breakfast Items:
Ready-to-eat Breakfast Items:
Cereal/Granola/protein bars
Oatmeal (single serving - no large canisters)
Pop-tarts
Single-serve boxes of cereal (no large boxes)
Ready-to-eat Lunch Items
Ready-to-eat Lunch Items
Beef stew/chili/etc. (single-serve pop-tops)
Ravioli, Spaghetti-O’s, etc. (pop-top and ready-to-eat)
Ready-to-eat soup (soup on the go/soup at hand, etc. that can be microwaved)
Ready-to-eat meals (Hormel Completes for example)
Canned meat items (ham, chicken in pouches or cans)
Canned vegetables
Healthy, Child-Friendly Snack Food Items—Single Serve (no chips)
Healthy, Child-Friendly Snack Food Items—Single Serve (no chips)
Trail Mix, Pretzels, Chex-Mix, etc.
Rice Crispy Treats, Oatmeal Cookies, Animal Crackers, Goldfish Crackers, etc.
Popcorn
Real fruit snacks
Single-serve cookies
Raisins/fruit/yogurt snacks
Food items should be something a child 5–18 years of age would eat.
Please—NO glass containers, NO expired food
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