The 31st annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is the largest food drive of the year for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona.

It’s a wonderful benefit for the Community Food Bank and it’s all happening on Saturday, May 13. Historically, the drive has been a huge success and brings in much-needed food donations to stock their local food pantries for summer. This year, they’re hoping to collect 250,000 pounds of food.

Most Needed Non-Perishable Food Items:

• Peanut Butter
• Oatmeal, cereal, and granola bars
• Canned tomato products
• Canned tuna and chicken
• Canned soups
• Canned vegetables
• Canned fruit
• Rice and pasta
• Packaged nuts and seeds

How to Participate

To pitch in, collect a bag of non-perishable food and set it out by your mailbox on Saturday, May 13 to be picked up by your letter carrier or a Community Food Bank volunteer.

There are more ways to donate, too. For example, if you don’t have anything to bag up and leave outside, you can donate to the Community Food Bank online at donate.communityfoodbank.org.

Want to Volunteer?

If you’d like to give back in another way and form, you can also be a volunteer to support the drive by signing up to collect food at the post offices.

“We are recruiting hard for volunteers – it takes 400 of them to make this all work,” said Norma​ Cable, Public Relations Manager at the Community Food Bank.

If you’re interested, email volunteer@communityfoodbank.org or sign up online. “We need volunteers to help collect and sort food at post offices across Tucson, Green Valley, and Nogales,” the Community Food Bank shared.

For more information about Stamp Out Hunger, visit communityfoodbank.org.

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