GATHER A TEAM
COMMUNITY IMPACT
COMMUNITY IMPACT
Gather your team, your school, church, company, civic, or volunteer group. Decide how many people you would like to engage with this hands-on project. The Outreach Program meal packaging events are open to all ages and abilities and are a great opportunity to bring different people in your community together. Choose a venue and a date for your event. The Outreach Program of Texas can accommodate groups of all sizes and can even assist groups with more than 250 volunteers with the right venue.
COMMUNITY IMPACT
COMMUNITY IMPACT
COMMUNITY IMPACT
-You Decide Where your Meals Go-
Your group gets to choose which of our high-protein meals to package. More importantly, you choose where the food will go in your community. Most times meals can all go to the largest local food bank, but you’re also able to split the finished meals between multiple feeding organizations including those internationally.
SET A GOAL AND BUDGET
SET A GOAL AND BUDGET
SET A GOAL AND BUDGET
Set a fundraising goal for the number of meals you would like to package and donate. The Outreach Program of Texas’s minimum for a staffed event is ten thousand meals. This size event will typically engage around thirty-five to fifty people during a 2-hour event. If you are wanting to do a smaller event, there are Do It Yourself options available. Since event costs can vary with shipping, contact us so we can help you determine a budget. To help you reach your goal, we can support your fundraising with strategies and custom marketing materials.
EVENT TIME
SET A GOAL AND BUDGET
SET A GOAL AND BUDGET
Once we have the details all squared away, It’s time to hold your event. Yes, it really is that simple!
OUR MEALS
Event Meal Training and Lead Volunteer Training Page
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Meal packaging events
How Does It Work?
The Outreach Program will come to your location to help you set up an assembly-line-style event. We will engage your group in the process of packaging the dry ingredients of one, or more, of our ten delicious meal varieties. An assembly line is made by placing two 8’ tables end-to-end, then placing all of the necessary ingredients, equipment, and supplies to create the line. Then, 10-12 volunteers gather around each production line and assemble the meals in one lean-manufacturing process. While this is taking place, there is fun music playing, a bit of friendly competition between tables, and an event goal of packaging a certain number of meals. We bring everything needed above the table to you, including the training, you just show up with volunteers! If you have a smaller event in mind, that works as well, we offer, Do-it-your-self(DIY) kits! These DIY events contain everything you need to hold your very own Outreach Program event and make the impact you want. For those wanting to make a splash, and not able to gather together and hold an event, we also have machine packaged meals. The Outreach Program meal packaging machine provides high-speed filling of all products, in the most flexible machine design available on the market today. Automation is the key, adding efficiency and reliability to the packing process. This efficiency makes machine processing perfect for the client who orders in bulk or just does not have the time to gather for an event. The meals are packaged in an American Institute of Baking (AIB) certified facility and comply with stringent food safety protocols and guidelines. AIB was founded in 1919 and is the World’s most trusted authority on food safety.
OUR MEALS
The Outreach Program recognizes that hunger is a worldwide problem affecting millions in the United States and abroad. The Outreach Program, in cooperation with Iowa State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, formulated a healthy meal program that is nutritionally balanced to meet USDA dietary guidelines and tastes great! Each Outreach Program Meal is fortified with 21 essential vitamins and minerals to help make the most of every bite. The most sustainable plant-based protein on the market is utilized containing 7 to 11 grams of protein per serving. Even though our meals don’t sit on the shelves very long, they are made to last up to two years, have a shelf-stable life of up to two years.