Meal Packaging Events – The Outreach Program
Hosting a meal packaging event is a great way for your group or organization to enrich lives around the world. The meals you package can be donated to local food banks or homeless shelters, improving the lives of people in your community. Additionally, each meal packaging event helps us to provide food, water, and other life-sustaining resources to communities that have been devastated by war, natural disasters, or poverty in areas like Tanzania, Ukraine, and Israel.
Host a Meal Packaging Event
We strive to make our meal packaging events easy, fun, and exciting for your team of volunteers. When you schedule an event, you pick a location such as a church, local gymnasium, or community center We bring our equipment, supplies, and ingredients to your location for packaging by your team members and volunteers.
On the day of the event, we set up packaging lines at your location for volunteers to package the ingredients of one, or more, of our 10 meal varieties. Then we place 10–12 volunteers around each line to assemble and box the meals all in one lean manufacturing process.
During the packing event there is festive music playing, a bit of friendly competition between packaging lines, and a set goal of packaging meals.
Corporate Team-Building & Social Responsibility
A meal packaging event is the perfect way to engage your employees, their families, your clients, and your community in a fun, team-building activity that creates immediate positive social impact. The wonderful part is that while you are feeding people locally, you are also transforming lives around the world by providing food and education to the most vulnerable children in Tanzania and other global communities.
Faith Based Organizations
We know that your love and compassion for others knows no boundaries. That’s why hosting one of our meal packaging events is an ideal way to enrich the lives within your organization and community as well as empower individuals around the world. Hosting a meal packaging event generates thousands of nutritious meals that taste good. Each meal is ideal for local food banks and shelters, and provides critical resources and care for global communities in need.
Social, Professional & Charitable Sororities & Fraternities
Many groups have a heart to help people in need. We make it easy, fun, and rewarding for all organizations to roll up their sleeves and do something practical to make the world a better place. Hosting a meal packaging event is a great way to form bonds within your organization, build awareness of your organization, and attract new members.
What We Provide
Our team has years of experience and is prepared to help you make your packaging event as productive and fun as possible. We will provide the following:
- Ingredients
- Packaging Supplies
- Packaging Equipment
- Certified Food Safe Event Coordinators
- Training
If you have any questions, please review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) or contact:
The Outreach Program
641-486-2550
Or the regional manager for your area.
Meal Packaging Event Regional Managers
New York and New Jersey
Ted Swartwood
ted@outreachprogram.org
New England (MA, CT)
New England (MA, CT, RI, VT, NH, & ME)
Matthew Martin
matthew@outreachprogram.org
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC
Bobby Polito
bobbypolito@msn.com
California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona
Chris Romero
cromero@outreachprogram.org
641-849-7427
Chicago Metropolitan Area
Bill Kanatas
bkanatas@feed6.org
708-310-5578
Chris Coyne
ccoyne@feed6.org
954-478-5400
East Central Texas
Tarah Thompson
tarah@outreachprogram.org
North Carolina & South Carolina
Tom Smith tomsmith@outreachprogram.org
Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado
Chad Topper chad@outreachprogram.org 641-849-7101
Blanca Garcia blanca@outreachprogram.org 641-849-7428
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Meal Packaging Kits
A large meal packaging event may not be ideal for everyone, and that’s OK! We have DIY Kits to introduce you and your group to the packaging experience and groups can package meals on their own time. We have several DIY kits that can accommodate between 10 and 100 volunteers. Kits come with all the necessary ingredients, packing supplies, packing equipment, and virtual training. We can even help you find an organizationwhere you can donate your completed meals.
Bulk Meals for Donation
If you are looking for a healthy, low-cost option for your local food bank or shelter, you can donate meals packaged in our certified food safe facility.