Additional Tips

Unit Responsibiliites

• Sign your unit up for this year's Scouting for Food drive. Your district Scouting for Food chair, Andrea Welch will update the interactive map with your confirmed territory. Viewable interactive map of collection areas.

• All members, both youth and adult, should be in uniform during Scouting for Food activities.

• Determine an assembly place and time for your door hang tag distribution and collection of donated food items (you may wish to use your regular unit meeting place or another convenient location).

• Be sure that Scouts travel in groups of two or more socially distanced and with adequate adult supervision.

• Vehicles should stay as close to the Scouts as possible. It is highly recommended (especially for Cub Scouts) for adults to be on the streets during door hang tag distribution. Make it a Family activity.

• Plan to remind all participants during the week of the drop-off and collection.

• Unit leaders must make sure the distribution and collection guidelines listed below are followed.

Distribution & Collection Guidelines

• Skip businesses and apartments with controlled access or rules against solicitation. 

• Distribute to residences only that allow for visibility of scouts for the supervising adults. 

• Adult drivers should pull up to each street side to enable Scouts to enter on side of street.  This prevents Scouts from repeatedly needing to cross streets in slippery weather.  

• Drivers should edge up gradually to end of block – keeping an eye on Scouts as they progress down each street.

• Scouts should cover a block at a time, then come back to get more hangers.  This provides a frequent and regular check-in point with the adult driver for safety reasons.

• Be sure that your unit returns to every home that received a door hang tag during the distribution weekend.

Placement

• Place the door hang tag on what appears to be the most frequently used door of the residence.

• Stress to Scouts that they should not open doors!  This includes screen doors.  The door hangers are to be placed on doorknobs or other external substitute – without opening doors under any circumstances. 

• Do not put in or on mailboxes. DO NOT ENTER ANY HOME FOR ANY REASON.