SFF 2025 FAQs
Scouting for Food 2025 Dates
Saturday, March 8 ~ Food Collection Day
Saturday, March 1 ~ Tag Distribution
All questions on registration may be directed to scoutingforfoodnpd@gmail.com.
FAQ's
What is Scouting for Food (SFF)?
SFF is a Council-wide community service project where Scouting units ask the community for food donations and the Scouting units take all the donations to various food pantries in Howard County.
Who can participate in SFF?
All Scouting units and community and school volunteers are welcome to participate.
When is SFF held?
SFF will be held the second Saturday in March. Hang tag distribution will be held on the first Saturday in March. Units can distribute tags any time the week before collection day.
Where?
SFF takes place all over Howard County.
How?
The SFF District Chair assigns a territory and a food pantry to each unit.
Units go out the first Saturday (or a date designated by the unit) to drop off tags at houses in their assigned territory.
Units go back the second Saturday in March to collect donations. That same day, units take the collected donations to their assigned food pantry.
Units can hold the SFF drive on a different weekend based on their unit's schedule.
Is this the only way our unit can participate?
No, there are other ways to participate:
Your unit can ask permission from a grocery store and ask for donations from shoppers.
Your unit can ask permission from a church and collect after services (pre-event promotion is needed for this method).
Your unit can hold a food drive at a location where people drive by and drop off donations without getting out of their car (pre-event promotion is needed for this method).
Members of your unit can hold a "Front Yard Food Drive" (see details here)
How does my unit participate?
Designate one point of contact (POC) for your unit.
POC registers by completing the registration form by the deadline. Communications and updates will be sent to that person only.
Put the event on your unit calendar NOW so you have high participation. A territory will be assigned to you and you deliver hang tags and collect donations in that territory. As food pantry as a recipient of the food you collected will be assigned.