It is time to gear up for Minnesota FoodShare’s March Campaign, the largest annual food drive in the state. The campaign runs from February 26th through April 6th. All food and fund donations to our food shelves during that time qualify for additional funds from Minnesota FoodShare! This year, our goal is to raise $150,000 and 150,000 lbs of food, and we need your help to get there.

Support 360 Communities by organizing a food and fund drive at your place of work, school, or church. Donations can be dropped off at any of our food shelf locations in Apple Valley, Burnsville, Farmington, Lakeville, or Rosemount.

Thank you for your partnership! Together, we will provide help in the moment and hope for the future to thousands of your neighbors in Dakota County.

• Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign flyer: Food drive information, drop-off locations, and more.
• Our Most Needed Food Shelf Items: Use to promote your food drive and solicit donations.
• Stretch Your Dollar with 360 Communities: Show people how far their donation goes with 360 Communities’ network of food shelves.
• Food Drive Bin Sign: Place this sign on or above your collection bin
• Hunger Statistics

FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 3

The Great Food Shelf Bake-Off

Collect our most needed cooking and baking items: vegetable oil, palm oil, sesame oil, wheat flour, non-wheat flour (masa and corn flour, gluten free, rice flour), shelf-stable non-dairy milk (almond, soy, coconut or oat milk)

MARCH 4 -10

Protein Power!

Collect our most needed shelf-stable proteins: nut butters (almond, sunflower, peanut butter), canned meat and fish (sardines, chicken, tuna, salmon), canned or dried beans, and other shelf-stable plant-based proteins

MARCH 11 – 17

Gather The Grains

Collect as many shelf-stable grains as you can: white and brown rice, couscous, regular pasta, whole wheat pasta, gluten-free pasta, and breakfast grains like oatmeal, porridge, cream of wheat, millet, and cornmeal

MARCH 18 – 24

Juice It Up!

Collect as many juice varieties as you can! NOTE: we can only accept shelf-stable, unrefrigerated juice. Family sized juice is most useful to our guests, but we can also accept juice cartons and individual-sized drinks. We need fruit juices (apple, grape, orange, fruit cocktail, pineapple) and vegetable juices (tomato juice, carrot, and V8-style juices).

MARCH 25 – 31

Can-u-copia!

Collect as many canned fruits as you can!
Our #1 most-needed canned item in our food shelves is canned fruit! We need pineapple, mandarin oranges, peaches, pears, mangoes, apricots, grapefruit, mixed fruit cocktail. Also: dried fruit like dates, apricots, raisins, banana chips, cranberries.

APRIL 1 – 6

Know Your Neighbors

Collect our most needed culturally-specific foods: canned peppers, canned tomatoes, canned mushrooms, coconut milk, jackfruit, nopalitos/cactus, oils and spices