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With 1 in 5 people facing food insecurity, including 1 in 4 children, Virtual Food Drives are an impactful way to help support neighbors in need. Individuals, organizations, schools or businesses can set up a fundraiser to support Great Plains Food Bank’s mission. These donations help cover the cost of groceries that the Great Plains Food Bank then distributes to partner pantries and programs that provides for neighbors seeking food assistance.

Rather than paying retail prices, Great Plains Food Bank works with major manufacturers, retailers, and farmers to order bulk items, secure healthy foods, and combat food waste. This allows us to stretch donations to have a greater impact and deliver more food to those who need it.

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Getting started with your Virtual Food Drive is as easy as 1-2-3!

    1. Create your fundraiser page: Click Start a Virtual Food Drive, enter your email, and set up the basics.
    2. Customize your Drive: Choose a photo or add your own photo, update your fundraiser title, set your goal, and create your page.
    3. Spread the word: Once submitted, your page will be approved by a Great Plains Food Bank teammate. Once approved, share your fundraiser with friends, family, and coworkers to make the biggest impact!

For full instructions, tips, and ready-to-use graphics, check out the Virtual Food Drive How-To Guide or our Social Media Toolkit:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is a Virtual Food Drive?

A Virtual Food Drive is an online fundraiser where instead of collecting cans and boxes of food, you raise funds that allow the Great Plains Food Bank to purchase and distribute the most-needed items. Every $1 raised provides 2 meals for neighbors facing hunger.

While traditional food drives are impactful, Virtual Food Drives stretch your support even further. With our bulk purchasing power and partnerships, we can provide more food, more efficiently including fresh produce, protein, and culturally relevant foods that are harder to donate through a physical drive.

It only takes a few minutes! Click Start a Virtual Food Drive, create your fundraiser page (title, image, fundraising goal, etc.), and submit it for approval. Once it’s live, you’ll receive a link to share with your network.

Start a Virtual Food Drive

Yes! You can add your own photo, update your fundraiser title, and set your goal. This helps inspire others to give.

Once your page is live, you’ll get a shareable link. Post it on social media, send it in emails, add it to newsletters, or even print flyers with a QR code. Our Social Media Toolkit includes graphics and sample posts to make it easy.

Absolutely! Virtual Food Drives are perfect for teams, businesses, schools, churches, or community groups. You can fundraise collectively or create individual pages to see who raises the most.

That’s up to you! Most drives run 2–4 weeks, but you can set the timeline that works best for your group or event.

Reach out if you have any questions or need help with your virtual food drive, please contact:

Ashleigh Brown
Corporate Engagement Coordinator
Phone: 701.699.0323
Email: abrown@greatplainsfoodbank.org

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This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Great Plains Food Bank regarding websites located at www.greatplainsfoodbank.org and give.greatplainsfoodbank.org. Great Plains Food Bank reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting. Great Plains Food Bank (“us”, “we”, “our”). Website visitor, guest, and/or donor (“you”, “user”).

Information Collection

  • Personal Information You Choose to Provide In the process of general correspondence, making a gift, or participating in online surveys you may be asked to supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other information. If you correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our responses. 
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  • Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties? We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information. We may provide aggregate information about our website visitors or website traffic patterns to our contracted affiliates or third parties; this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy. Personal information such as email and address may be shared with a contracted third party for the use of email dissemination and direct mail marketing; all third party vendors are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
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  • You may request access to all of your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our donor constituent database, DonorPerfect. 
  • You may request removal from any communication including but not limited to emails, direct mail pieces, text and phone calls.
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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, need to opt-out of future communications, or wish to exercise any other privacy right you may have by law, please contact us in any of the ways shown below.

Great Plains Food Bank
attn. Development Associate
1720 3rd Ave N
Fargo, ND 58102

Phone: 701-476-9120

Email: info@greatplainsfoodbank.org

All opt-out requests will be honored, but please be patient with us as it may take up to twelve (12) weeks for opt-out changes to be fully implemented. We may also occasionally initiate contact with opt-out supporters in order to update their contact preferences, and we will promptly accommodate their updated preferences, if any.

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DONATION REFUND POLICY

We are grateful for your donation and support of our organization. If you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to our organization please contact us. Refunds are returned using the original method of payment. If you made your donation by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.

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Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.