Neighborhood Captain Program
Engaging Students in the fight against hunger.
Dermer Dreams provides high school students a streamlined platform along with the supplies and support to run their own successful food drive.
Students receive 100 Dermer Dreams donation bags and create a plan of action to fill as many bags as possible.
Upon completing the program, students earn 10 Hours of Community Service.
Check out below How it Works / Create Your Plan of Action
If you would like to sign up for our next event on October 25th, 2025, click the button below
Leadership signup is now closed for November 2nd, 2024.
If you would like to sign up for our next event on October 25th, 2025, click the button below.
Watch this video – it will answer all of your questions about the Neighborhood Captain Program.
How It Works
Earn 10 Community Service Hours!
Create Your Plan of Action & Manage your own food drive.
- Students sign up as a Neighborhood Captain.
- Dermer Dreams delivers 100 donation bags to the Captain two weeks before the food drive.
- The Captain creates their PLAN OF ACTION to fill as many bags as possible.
- On the date of the food drive, the student, along with a parent or adult over 18, pick up the donations and deliver them to the Dermer Dreams drop site.
- Upon delivery, the Captain receives a certificate for 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.
- 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.
- Distribute bags to members of a sports team you are part of and ask them to fill a bag.
- 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.
- 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.
- Distribute bags and letters to homes in your neighborhood and pick up the bags after 9am on pick up day.
Be Creative and Design the best plan of action for you!
See how this student used Venmo to fill bags!