The Crawford’s Auto Repair 6th Annual Holiday Food Drive 2024 has begun! Every year we team up with United Food Bank to raise food and funds to help feed the hungry in Arizona. 1 in 10 People, 1 in 7 kids, and 1 in 14 seniors suffer from food insecurity. These are families and neighbors within our community and we are doing our best to help them have a great holiday season. The food drive will run from November 1 to December 14 this year.
We’ve made it super easy to participate with the following options:
1. Donate funds directly to United Food Bank through our team’s fundraising portal. We don’t touch this money and it is processed securely through United Food Bank’s secure checkout. For every $1 donated United Food Bank can provide 5 meals. Their purchasing power is greater than the average individual or family since they have arrangements with local food sources and they buy it in bulk. This is the most efficient way to donate. The option to donate anonymously is available if you don’t want your name posted online and/or you don’t want to receive follow-up promotions. Donate through the secure portal.
2. Join Our Fundraising Team – Once you see our fundraising portal, you’ll notice that you also have the opportunity to join our team. Joining our team means you can be part of the fundraising efforts by sharing the portal on social media and even creating individual goals for funds raised through your efforts. You can join us as an individual, family, organization, or business.
3. Bring non-perishable food to the shop. This is a great way to cycle through non-perishable food items in your pantry and it’s a much-appreciated alternative to fund donations. We will make sure that any food brought to the shop or collected through neighborhood drives will get to United Food Bank and we will report on the grand total of meals provided. See the most needed items below.
4. Participate in neighborhood food drives. We will perform neighborhood food drives in various neighborhoods which involve leaving an empty paper grocery bag on the doorsteps of homes and collecting them back a few days later. If you live in these neighborhoods, filling the bag (or multiple bags) and leaving it on your porch at the designated time would be a convenient way to help. If you choose not to donate, then leaving the empty bag on the porch would also be helpful since we save them for future food drives and they are actually hard to come by.
Most needed items:
- Funds – again for every $1 United Food Bank can provide 5 meals
- Cereals and Oatmeal
- Chilis, Soups, and Stews
- Canned Tuna or Chicken
- Peanut Butter
- Beans
- Canned Vegetables and Fruit
- Canned or Dried Milk
- Canned Tomato Products
- Rice and Pasta
Please no glass jars, baby food or opened food.
Donate Food or Funds In-Store For An Auto Repair Discount
Bring 5 cans or more to the shop, or donate $5 or more through the secure portal, and get a $5 discount on auto repair. $5 may not seem like a lot, but those funds actually equal 25 meals which United Food Bank can provide to the hungry. We made the dollar amounts the same to make it an easy choice. The option to donate anonymously is available if you don’t want your name posted online and/or you don’t want to receive follow-up promotions. It cannot be combined with other Crawford’s promotional offers. Follow us on social media or see our ads elsewhere for additional offers.
The oneLESS Car Show & Food Drive hosted by United Food Bank
As part of our Annual Food Drive, we participated in the oneLESS Car Show & Food Drive hosted by United Food Bank on November 16. Two of our technicians had custom cars on display.
The Crawford’s Auto Repair team at the oneLESS Car Show & Food Drive. The car on the left is Connor’s custom Ford Mustang.
Tommy with his custom Chevy Camaro, 307 Chassis with 350 engine.
Special Thank You’s Will Go Here at the food drive completion.
Results (so far)
Car Show funds donations: $1,375, which is 6,875 meals
Car Show food donations: 17 lbs, which is 14 meals