GIC Thanksgiving Food Drive
Fall is upon us, Thanksgiving is almost here, and that means it’s time for our annual Thanksgiving food drive! This year we’ll be engaging in friendly competition with other Jesuit high schools in The Great Ignatian Challenge!
Through November 24, students (along with parents, faculty, staff, and alumni!) from Prep, Xavier High School, Loyola School, Regis High School, Fordham Prep, Fairfield Prep, Saint Joseph’s Prep, Canisius High School, McQuaid Jesuit High School, Chevrus, BC High, Saint Peter’s Prep, Loyola Blakefield, Gonzaga College HS, and Georgetown Prep will compete to raise the most food donations for a food bank(s) of their choice. This year, Prep is collecting donations for St. Francis of Assisi Kitchen, Friends of the Poor, Ronald McDonald House, and NEPA Youth Shelter. Prep has set a goal of 100+ pounds of food donations per Prep Student for this year’s challenge. That’s over 60,000 pounds!
Each year this Challenge has grown in participation and this year is no different. There are 15 participating schools this year from the USA East Province. With 15 participating schools, Jim Rowen, the generous supporting donor, and Fordham Prep alumnus, has agreed to support the collective efforts with a donation of $450,000 which will be awarded. The fifteen schools will compete for tiered awards based on criteria identified by Mr. Rowen, including the most amount of food collected per student. Mr. Rowen has generously donated more than $1,100,000 towards the Great Ignatian Challenge competitions over the last six years. His desire is to open this competition up to even more schools next year.
We will have weekly challenges during the next six weeks in school and we will collect donations online through our YouGiveGoods Great Ignatian Challenge page. YouGiveGoods will deliver the donations directly to the organizations.
This friendly but spirited competition is intended to strengthen each school’s Thanksgiving food drive, further raising awareness of hunger un our communities while filing local food banks and pantries with tens of thousands of pounds of much-needed food. Check out how the challenge is going here The Great Ignatian Challenge .
Media Coverage
Scranton Prep Competing to Combat Hunger WNEP-TV
Drive on at Scranton Prep to Help the Hungry WBRE-TV
Scranton Prep students competing to combat hunger Pa Homepage
https://instagram.com/thegreatignatianchallenge?utm_medium=copy_link
(18) SP Great Ignatian Challenge | Facebook
Drive on at Scranton Prep to help the hungry – NewsBreak
https://twitter.com/i/status/1458807438644293633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpIi6WCkRso
Scranton Prep Competing to Combat Hunger – OceanSidetotalLifeChanges
Scranton Prep Players Present, Puffs | Scranton | DiscoverNEPA
Scranton Prep Thanksgiving Food Drive 2021 – YouGiveGoods
https://raforum.info/scranton-prep-competing-to-fight-hunger/
https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/eedition/page-a5/page_eb9eb3eb-0331-52b8-a27c-a301be8661be.html
https://twitter.com/scrprepsports/status/1451592056938242050?s=21
https://twitter.com/nepanation/status/1451877938832547842?s=21
https://www.facebook.com/570sportsshow/photos/a.160079388830287/428487535322803/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/ScrantonPreparatorySchool/
https://www.scrantonprep.org/s/139/bp18/interior.aspx?sid=139&gid=1&pgid=1121
https://twitter.com/scrantonprep
https://instagram.com/thegreatignatianchallenge?utm_medium=copy_link
(18) SP Great Ignatian Challenge | Facebook
Drive on at Scranton Prep to help the hungry – NewsBreak
https://twitter.com/i/status/1458807438644293633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpIi6WCkRso
Scranton Prep Competing to Combat Hunger – OceanSidetotalLifeChanges
Scranton Prep Players Present, Puffs | Scranton | DiscoverNEPA
Scranton Prep Thanksgiving Food Drive 2021 – YouGiveGoods
https://raforum.info/scranton-prep-competing-to-fight-hunger/
https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/eedition/page-a5/page_eb9eb3eb-0331-52b8-a27c-a301be8661be.html
https://twitter.com/scrprepsports/status/1451592056938242050?s=21
https://twitter.com/nepanation/status/1451877938832547842?s=21
https://www.facebook.com/570sportsshow/photos/a.160079388830287/428487535322803/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/ScrantonPreparatorySchool/
https://www.scrantonprep.org/s/139/bp18/interior.aspx?sid=139&gid=1&pgid=1121
https://twitter.com/scrantonprep
Great Ignatian Pie Challenge
Week 4 & 5 Challenge
We are going by pounds per student in each homeroom. There will be a homeroom winner in each grade level by the end of the week. Those homerooms will win a swag bag, an exclusive Great Ignatian Challenge t-shirt & a Krispy Kreme breakfast.
Week 3 Challenge
This week we want to target specific items on our charity’s wish lists. The Grocery List contains 20 specific items that they need.
For every 5 different items you bring in, your name will be entered into a raffle. If you bring in all 20 items, you will get 4 raffle tickets. 3 winners will be pulled on Tuesday, Nov 2nd; 3 more on Thursday, Nov 4; and 3 final on Friday, Nov 5th. The winners could win a Free Dress Down, a Get Out of Jug Card, or a free cafeteria lunch voucher. Donations will be collected and inspected in the front lobby 7:45am-8:10am by Mr. Placke and Ms. Farrell to be entered into the raffle.
Week 2 Challenge
Details of Week 2 Challenge:
- Grade level vs. grade level
- Bringing the cans/nonperishable food item to your homeroom
- The grade level that brings in the most cans/food will win
- The grade level will win a Pizza Party on the field with games (cornhole, Kan-Jam, spike ball, etc)
- This will take place Tuesday, November 2nd with a rain date of Wednesday, November 3rd;
- During 4th and 5th periods (11am-12pm)
- Collectively the school must collect 1,000 cans this week
Week 1 Challenge
