Scouting For Food/Can-Do Good Turn

	Detroit Area Council, BSA 1776 West Warren Ave., Detroit, MI 48208 Phone: (313) 897-1965 Fax: (313) 897-9870	Search The Site Contact Us.

Bag Distribution is the first Saturday in November until Collection Day Bag Collection Day is the second Saturday in November

Note: Notice: October Roundtable, bags pick-up by units. A reminder that units participanting can pick up their allotment of bags at the October Roundtable.

Purpose: To help fight hunger in Southeast Michigan while teaching Scouts the value of ‘Doing A Good Turn Daily’.

Overview: The Detroit Area Council joins hands with Big Boy Restaurants and WXYZ-TV in a massive community food good turn each November.

Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts distribute and collect Food Good Turn Bags in their neighborhood, asking people to join us in fighting hunger in Southeast Michigan.

Selected Big Boy Restaurants throughout the area serve as collection points for the food. We collect over 400,000 pounds of food, which will feed 1 thousands people in metropolitan Detroit.

FACTS ABOUT HUNGER:

An estimated 673,000 people in the tri-county area are hungry for a significant period of time in
any given month.
Approximately 504,000 people (13% of the population) in the tri-county area live below the
poverty level established by the federal government.
Approximately half of Michigan's poor people reside in the tri-county area.

HERE'S THE PLAN:

Sign your unit up to distribute food bags to households in their assigned neighborhood a week before collection day. Pick up the food bags on the second Saturday in November and take them to a district collection point located at a designated Big Boy Restaurant in your district manned by district Scouters and Explorers.

NOTE:

If your unit run out of Scouting For Food bags to distribute, please use the Door Flyer as a substitute. Simply click on the Door Flyer link and print as many copies as your unit needs to complete the distribution of bags

Scouting For Food Chair Roster

District	Chairperson	Phone
Council	Bruce Culver	B: (248) 829-6300
Huron	Chasity Townsend	R: (313) 299-1783
Lakeshore	Peter Walilko	R: (313) 882- 0706
Michigami	Bill & Lynn Licht	R: (586) 771-3901
Motor City	Gerald Huerer	R: (313) 881-8952
Northridge	Heather Muller	R: (248) 854-4702
North Trails	Martha Spenny	R: (248) 448-7091
Sunset	John Jraiche	N/A
Three Rivers	Kathy Cervantes	R: (734) 283-2707

Scouting For Food Door Flyer

When you run out of scouting for food bags, there is a flyer for you to place on doors. This flyer can be downloaded from the right side of this page.>>>

If you need copies of the flyer, please place a request with your district's Scouting For Food chair.