Friday, December 09, 2005

name that program

Second Harvest Food Bank facilitates a program in a nearby rural school through which low-income students receive food on Friday afternoons as they head home for the weekend. This food is intended to supplement their supply at home, considering that these students are on free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches during the school week, but need breakfasts and lunches on Saturday and Sunday. The food is placed in the students' backpacks or, if their backpack is already full, in another bag that does not indicate the contents so as not to stigmatize the student.

This program has been casually referred to as "The Backpack Program" but this name confuses people into thinking Second Harvest is giving away actual backpacks to students. No backpacks are distributed, just food. We plan to expand this program to other rural communities that we serve, but to do so effectively, we need an official (a better) program name.

You guys ooze creativity, so fire away with your suggestions for a program name. I'll send you a prize if we choose your suggestion.

Here are our other program names/descriptions so you have a little context:

Community Food Partners: We distribute over 7 million pounds of food annually to more than 500 nonprofit agencies that feed the hungry in our 46 county service area.

Nashville's Table: We rescue excess prepared and perishable food from food donors like bakeries, restaurants, hospitals, schools, and caterers and then deliver it at no charge directly to more than 200 nonprofit agencies like shelters, churches, youth programs, and senior centers that feed the hungry in Davidson County (Nashville) and the three surrounding counties.

Kids Cafe: We provide a weekly evening meal and daily summer breakfasts/snacks to children participating in activities at 30 community center sites in Davidson County.

Community Kitchen: We offer a course that equips people with barriers to employment with the skills they need to obtain and retain gainful employment in the foodservice industry.

Project Preserve: We manufacture shelf-stable food products in house from donated ingredients and then sell the canned or frozen product to other food banks across the country as a source of revenue for our local hunger-relief programs.

Emergency Food Box: We pack and distribute emergency food boxes to 15 sites in Davidson County such as community centers and churches with food pantries. When clients call SHFB needing food, we refer them to the nearest Emergency Food Box site according to their zip code. A box feeds a family of four for about three days.

Culinary Arts Center: We offer food safety training, catering services, event hosting, and more as an educational tool and a source of revenue for our other programs.

Other names we have used in the past for special projects/events:
Take Out Hunger
Feed the Need
Generous Helpings
First Harvest Cafe
Harvest Moon Ball

8 Comments:

Blogger Scott said...

See, the problem is, we ooze with SARCASTIC creativity, so you'll likely end up with a bag-o-crap like...

-Stealth Vittles
-Jelly-Stained Homework Initiative
-Stuff in Plain Brown Wrapper That Isn't Porn
-Les Croutons du Cartoons
-"Well, It's Not a Bag-o-Crap" Program

Gee, wouldn't it be nice if we could use our power for good, rather than evil? My serious suggestions don't entertain me nearly as much.

-Homeward Bound
-Weekenders
-7&1 Breakfast (7th and 1st days of the week - you could change that for godless heretics who would want that to be 6&7 Breakfast - over my dead BODY!)
-Daily Bread
-The "Hey, These Kids Is Poor and Needs Them Some Eats On Saturday and Sunday" Progra... wait, it looks like I've run out of good - the evil took over.

12:01 PM  
Blogger janet said...

i was thinking "Stuff in Plain Brown Wrapper That Isn't a Malt Beverage."

but seriously, like scott, my not evil ideas aren't very entertaining:
brown bag lunch
snacks in the packs
2 meals 2 go
weekend binge (sorry, that just slipped out)
and i really want to make a pun out of meals on wheels, like meals on pills. but that's a bit derogratory to the children plus it might seem like a drug reference.

11:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

free food!

1:08 PM  
Blogger janet said...

"there is a such thing as a free lunch."

a little unwieldy....

1:14 PM  
Blogger laura g said...

yah-neh, i like "snacks in the packs!"

scott, your '"well, it's not a bag-o-crap" program' idea is a close second so far...

6:54 PM  
Blogger Scott said...

We need Mark (Frustrated) to comment - he is the best at this kind of stuff.

Oops, for consistency, I should have said... kind-o-stuff

3:34 PM  
Blogger laura g said...

well scott, invite him on over!

i emailed suggestions thus far to my boss today. i knew when he opened my email because i heard him laugh and laugh and laugh. he said he liked "Stuff in Plain Brown Wrapper That Isn't a Malt Beverage" the best.

7:16 PM  
Blogger Cole said...

OK, I'm late to this post, but how about:

Poor Kids' Weekend Rations;
Breakfast for Beaters;
Indigent Intestine Insurance;
Snacks for Starvers.


How's that?

8:15 PM  

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