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Neighborhood Captain Program

Engaging Students in the fight against hunger.

How It Works

  • Sign up as a Neighborhood Captain.
  • Plan your food drive.
  • Collect your donated food.
  • Deliver your donations and earn community service hours.

Students, Sign up for Sunday October 25, 2026

High School Registration
Middle School Registration

Watch the short video below to learn more about the Neighborhood Captain Program.

Students, Sign up for
Sunday October 26 2025

Late Sign-Ups Welcome!

It’s not a problem if you’re signing up late — we’re excited to have you join the Dermer Dreams team.

After you register, you’ll need to pick up your Dermer Dreams bags from one of the following locations. Please write us an email at neighborhoodcaptain@dermerdreams.org to confirm the location, date and time when you will pick up your bags and we will have them ready for you:

Central NJ:
165 Lewis Lane

Fair Haven, NJ 07704

Howell NJ:
Howell High School
405 Squankum Yellowbrook Rd.,

Howell, NJ 07731

Southern NJ:
217 Ridgewood Drive,

Northfield, NJ 08225

Northern NJ:
350 Highland Avenue,

Upper Montclair, NJ 07043


Sign Ups are now closed.
Check back later if you are interested in our next event in 2026!

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New Jersey October 2025
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100 YARD FOOD DRIVE CHALLENGE

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Howell High School is taking on the 2026 100 Yard Food Drive Challenge!

Let’s go, students! Can we fill an entire football field with food?

Every bag delivered to Howell High School will count toward the challenge.

Choose Howell High School as your drop-off location if you’d like to be part of the challenge.

Not near Howell? No worries! Simply choose the drop-off location nearest you and you’ll still be making a difference in your community..

Together, we will fill the shelves
of food banks across New Jersey.

How It Works

We provide high school students a streamlined platform with the supplies and support needed to run their own successful food drive.

Neighborhood Captain’s Role

Step 1:

Each Neighborhood Captain is provided Dermer Dreams donation bags and promotional materials.

Step 2:

The students take charge, utilizing their creativity & connections while creating their plan of action to collect as much food as possible.

Step 3:

Upon delivery of the food to our drop site, on collection day, the student earns 10 hours of Community Service.

IT’S SIMPLE. WE PROVIDE YOU EVERYTHING AT NO COST TO YOU!

It is the Neighborhood Captain’s job to manage the program from start to finish.

Create Your Plan Of Action!

Consider the following ideas or design your own to fill as many bags as possible.

  • Raise money through a Venmo campaign. Request $10 per person and go shopping to fill some of your bags.
  • Text friends & family who live nearby to request that they fill bags.
  • Distribute bags to people you know in your community.
  • Hand out bags in front of a supermarket and ask people to fill the bag as they are shopping.
  • Request that employees in your parents’ workplace fill bags.
  • Request that members of a team fill bags.
  • Distribute bags and letters to homes in your neighborhood and pick up the bags after 9am on pick up day.
  • Use social media to create awareness about your food drive.
  • Put a personal note inside the bag explaining why you want to help people who are hungry.
  • Offer personal pick-up times when someone can text you to pick up their bag.

Be Creative and Design the best plan of action for you!

 

See how this student used Venmo to fill bags!