Project 1:
Understanding design opportunities and creating concepts.
Remi: researching proximity and convenience of transportation
Jenny: research food bank / volunteer options and sign up stuff
Tai: how to donate to the food bank and the impact they have
Gil: research food bank advocacy and awareness and destigmatization
How does a young adult advocate for the food bank and get others to be aware?
How does the foodbank make sure consistent donations and volunteers are coming in?
How does the foodbank convince people to donate?
Twitter
Mailing Lists
News Exposure
Website
“Hunger Blog”
“Would you like to donate?” at grocery store register
Youtube videos
Famous People advocating
Contact members of congress
Contacting your legislators
- Call (202) 224–3121 and ask for your Representative
- Senator Bob Casey — 202–224–6324
- Senator Pat Toomey — 202–224–4254
Feeding America — https://www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/coronavirus
Food Research & Action Center — https://frac.org/COVID-19-updates
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — https://www.cbpp.org/covid-19-responding-to-the-health-and-economic-crisis
Feeding Pennsylvania — www.feedingpa.org/advocacy/
Get people involved by sharing simple facts:
300,000 people in the greater pittsburgh area are food insecure.
1 in 6 children struggle with hunger
1 in 9 adults struggle with hunger
Greater pittsburgh food bank has distributed 32 million meals in the past year.
Many people may not be aware of the nearness of hunger (like I was before researching). The amount of people who need assistance is higher than you might think.
Our group created a survey to get an understanding of our audience.
- How old are you?
- What is your usual mode of travel?
- How often do you go out?
- How many times are you willing to go out to volunteer?
- What is your usual travel time on a trip in your area?
- How long are you willing to travel to volunteer?
- How often do you volunteer in general?
- Have you ever participated or volunteered at a food bank?
- How often do you participate at food banks (donating, dropping off food, distribution, etc)
- How would you choose where/how to volunteer?
- If you do not volunteer, why not?
- How would you describe your experience volunteering for the food bank?
There are some questions we thought about including but decided to leave out based on who we expected our target audience to be and the purpose of this survey.
- Do you donate?
- How much do you donate in general per year?
- How much do you donate to food banks per year?
- Are you aware of the locations of food banks around you?
- Have you ever shared your volunteering experience on social media?
- Have you ever encouraged others to participate in distribution or donation?
- Has your experience with food banks been affected by covid?
- Have you ever needed help from a food bank yourself?
We think these questions might be a too personal or too leading.
We’ve gotten some feedback on our survey that we should have included options to allow them to say they never have gone to a food bank and wouldn’t be willing to. We shouldn’t assume that one would want to help other people. However, this survey is meant for a young adult volunteering for a food bank, so maybe we shouldn’t be sending it out to our friends.
