"Food Drive" Posts
Taking Our Food Drive To New Heights!
By 
Sears? Willis? Nope, it’s the ‘Cereal’ Tower!
Inspired by canstruction, we built our own sculpture to launch our annual Food Drive at GPS. Last year, we featured the American flag, which is pretty hard to top, both thematically and design-wise, but we finally arrived at our Cereal Tower concept (based on a famous Chicago skyscraper, one of the tallest buildings in the world).
Thinking Inside the Box!
Cans are a terrific way to package non-perishable food, but we experienced some issues with stability when building using cans. Going higher wasn’t possible without some sort of infrastructure not made …
So Proudly We Hail!
This year, to raise awareness and excitement about bringing in nonperishable food donations for our Annual Food Drive, we built a sculpture out of food.
We decided upon the national flag as the subject in order to tie-in with our theme, ‘In America, No One Should Go Hungry.’ Sadly, hunger in America does exist. The Greater Chicago Food Depository offered insight into the Americans who are served by the Food Banks in our area, sharing that:
- 37% are children under 18;
- 9% are children under 5;
- 6% are homeless;
- 34% are households with at least one employed adult;
- 24% are
