Truck or Treat

Truck or Treat for City Harvest is a Halloween initiative for independent schools. Through Truck or Treat, children join the fight against hunger by helping ensure other kids in our city have enough healthy food to eat.

How Truck or Treat works

As they collect candy for themselves on Halloween, children at participating schools also collect donations for City Harvest in Truck or Treat boxes that City Harvest provides. They look just like the City Harvest truck! 100% of the donations will help City Harvest deliver much-needed food to the more than 350,000 New York City kids who don’t always know where their next meal is coming from.

Sign up for Truck or Treat 2009 by contacting:

Courtney Williams
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
917.351.8769

City Harvest provides all the materials your students need to participate in Truck or Treat.

- Truck or Treat is fun. Each participating student will receive his/her own change collection box.  It looks like the City Harvest trucks that are familiar to all New Yorkers!

- Truck or Treat is educational. Your child is learning about importance of fundraising and helping to fight against hunger.

- Truck or Treat is easy and ever penny counts! Each quarter your students collects will enable City Harvest to rescue one pound of food for a hungry family. Students, parents, and teachers can drop off donated coins at a nearby TD Bank.

- Truck or Treat School Donation Page. Upon your request, City Harvest can create a customized online fundraising and donation page for your school to collect donations.

- Truck or Treat Incentives. If your school raises over $1000, City Harvest will recognize your school in our Fresh News, Newsletter and on our website. For raising over $2000, the school will be listed as part of the Truck or Treat Supporter Circle in future campaign materials.

Check out this year's Truck or Treat poster!

Schools may also contact Courtney Williams to request that a City Harvest representative speak at a school assembly, parent's night, or other forum about City Harvest's work to end hunger in New York.

Make a donation now to Truck or Treat for City Harvest.

Look for tiny ghosts, goblins, and witches from the following participant schools in 2009:

Allen-Stevenson School
Beekman School
Berkeley Carroll School
Blue Rock School
Buckley School
Chapin School
Claremont Preparatory School
Collegiate School
Dalton School
Dwight School
Fieldston School
Marymount School
Nightingale-Bamford School
P.S. 89
Spence School
St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's
The Brearley School
The Town School
Trevor Day School

Last year's Truck or Treat was a great success, with 23 NYC Independent Schools raising more than $20,000. Thanks to the following schools for participating in 2008:

  • Berkeley Carroll School
  • Brearley School
  • Buckley School
  • Chapin School, Lower School
  • Chapin School, Middle School
  • College of Staten Island High School
  • Collegiate School
  • CSI High School of International Studies
  • Dalton School
  • Dwight School
  • Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Fieldston Lower
  • Horace Mann
  • Hungerford School
  • Marsh Ave Learning School
  • Marymount School
  • McGowan Expedition High School
  • Nightingale-Bamford School
  • Park Avenue Christian Church Day School
  • PS 198 - Isidor and Ida Straus
  • PS 87 - Class 2E
  • Spence School
  • St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's
  • Trevor Day School

    • Any questions about Truck or Treat?

    Courtney Williams
    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
    t 917.351.8769