Volunteer News

Armed with the idea for a food and toy drive in mind, the next thing I needed to do was to raise funds. And what better way to do that than a GoFundMe? I decided the GoFundMe should be focused mainly on raising money to …

With funds gathered, the next thing I needed to do was choose which toys to buy. I enlisted the help of my Picky Eats volunteers Alan, Spirit, Logan, and Hanson, Every volunteer was tasked to go to the department store and pick 1 toy for …

After all of the presents were purchased, they needed to be wrapped for the kids. To achieve this, I once again enlisted the help of my friends and volunteers. Together, we wrapped all 42 of the presents, wrote holiday cards, and prepared everything for giving …

With all of the gifts bought and wrapped, there was only one thing left missing from the food and toy drive: the food debit cards. Picky Eats and Mesa College was able to raise over $1140 to my cause to help me buy the grocery …

On December 14th, it was finally time to give everything away, and it went very smoothly (except for a few spotty showers). We had achieved our goal of helping families with food insecurity and making a child’s Christmas! Select link to go to the next …