Features and Benefits

It was time for standard marketing practices, and Ben and I sat down to write up the program's "Features" and "Benefits" for the website and materials. Today was Benefits, which are as follows:

Volunteers and Donors can:

• Serve the local community in a meaningful way
• Directly impact the individual health of the needy
• Prevent waste and excess
• Support local food production
• Encourage sustainable living practices
• Increase balance in the use of our environment

Donors with excess produce on their property have less mess and droppage, cleaner landscaping, and healthier, more prolific trees (so they can call us again next year)

Volunteers can enjoy more fresh produce in their own diet, too.

Family volunteers also:

• Teach kids early to value community service, preventing waste and thrift
• Explain gardening and the plant cycle to youngsters
• Give children (even young ones!) a chance to find fulfillment in physical work
• Build family unity while lending a hand together

It's fun to be involved with so many things I care about and am interested in anyway. Whether it works just depends on if there are enough donors and volunteers, so we'll just have to wait and see if it will be just a nice brochure or a functioning program.