As an organization, the Boy Scouts of America has made a strong effort to help disadvantaged communities through an annual food drive called "Scouting for Food".
Mid-November: one Saturday food collection bags are distributed door-to-door by Packs and Troops in their designated area(s)
The following Saturday, the bags with food donations are collected and transported to one of the central collection points within the District for final delivery to the Alameda County Food Bank.
Click here for photos from 2004
Each year the Boy Scouts of America carries out a National Good Turn. For the past few years, this Good Turn has been to help local food banks collect part of the extra food people need during the holidays.
Learn more here!
Tres Ranchos District has participated in this National Good Turn, and in the recent past we collected over 50,000 cans of food for the Alameda County Food Bank.
Visit the San Francisco Bay Area Council's web site for more information
Drop-off Locations are open from 9:30AM to 3:00PM and are located at:
| San Leandro | Castro Valley | Hayward |
| Youth Leadership Training Center (YLTC) 1001 Davis Street |
Proctor Elementary School 17520 Redwood Road |
Southland Mall North Parking Lot near Sears 660 Southland Mall |
View a Daily Review newspaper article from 2002 in our Scrap Book by clicking here
The Statistics:
2004:
Tres Ranchos Scouting for Food Summary
Castro Valley turn-in: 13 units 13,876 items
Hayward turn-in: 17 units 20,270 items
San Leandro turn-in: 10 units 9,530 items
Total 40 units 43,676 items
2002:
Special thanks to all the units that have participated in this year's Scouting for Food. With your great help, we were able to collect a total of 55,819 items from the Tres Ranchos district. Along with Mission Peak, Peralta, Golden Gate and Twin Valley districts, we have collected 189,563 items as of today.
2001:
Scouting for Food
Wow! Over 50 units caught the Scouting Spirit as more than 52,000 cans and packaged goods were collected for the needy. Great effort everyone. A BIG thanks!
2000:
A total of over 50,000 items was collected by Tres Ranchos scouts!!
1999:
The three drop-off sites in TR went as follows:
Southland 15,957 items
Hope Lutheran 17,092
Proctor School 11,922
Total 44,971 items
That's about 800 cans less than last year, but last year was an extremely good year, so this year was almost as good!
The entire San Francisco Bay Area Council typically collects over 210,000 pounds of food for Bay Area food banks on this one day.
The Boy Scouts are the single largest contributor of food to Bay Area food banks during the holiday season.
For more information, call Trish Ferenz at (510) 577-9000 x 124 or Marcus Krause at (510) 538-2158.