Flakesgiving 2016!
Flakesgiving is being served!
Flakesgiving has become an annual tradition for Mark & Paul. The event will be at Metrapark this year on November 18 and 19, 2016.
Flakesgiving is an annual event that The Breakfast Flakes created to help make a meaningful, positive impact in Billings, Montana for the holidays. Flakesgiving is not a food drive or a hot meal on location somewhere. It is much simpler than that. And therein lays the genius of Flakesgiving. It’s very simple to understand. It’s very simple to help and very simple to get help. This is a no questions asked way to get all of the ingredients to make a homemade Thanksgiving meal.
Here’s how Flakesgiving works:
- Mark & Paul get on the microphones and tell people how they can be nice and help their community through donating money for food or from volunteering.
- People donate money.
- Those Breakfast Flakes guys, Mark & Paul take the money and buy food – a lot of food! Flakesgiving feeds 10,000 people each year.
- A bunch of volunteers show up at the Metrapark on Friday at 10am to put the food in boxes. There are 1,500 boxes of food that feed 7-10 people.
- Saturday at 10am a bunch of volunteers show up, load up and deliver boxes of food to families that cannot pick them up
- Saturday at noon, those volunteers load the rest of the boxes of food into the vehicles of people that would like to have a Flakesgiving meal.
Starting Monday November 14, 2016 Mark & Paul will start taking orders for deliveries for Flakesgiving meals. Donations really ramp up and volunteers start making sure they are ready to be at MetraPark the following Friday and/or Saturday at 10am. Mark & Paul will focus on Flakesgiving during the morning show and help listeners to know how they can donate, how they help volunteer and how they can pick up meals if they need them.
Friday 11/18/16 10am sharp – don’t be late! Meal assembly: We will put together over 1,500 boxes of food. Each box of food will feed 7-10 people. Many hands make light work! Volunteers are needed on Friday. Plan on up to 2 hours but usually we get done even quicker.
Saturday 11/19/16 10am sharp – don’t be late! Deliveries: Deliveries will start to roll out around 10:00am.
Saturday 11/19/16 12pm NOON sharp – don’t be late! Pick up a meal: If you would like to come by and pick up a meal please plan to be at the Metra at 12:00pm sharp. Anyone is welcome to a meal, no questions asked, but it is first come – first served.
All meals go out Saturday. Deliveries first (we’ll need drivers to deliver), then the main giveaway at 12 noon sharp. If somebody needs a meal, they will get one if they come to the fair grounds.
3 ways to donate: If you would like to donate money, mail a check to the address below, stop by the studio M-F 8a-5p or call our business line at 406-248-7827.
Make Checks Payable to:
Flakesgiving Fund
Studio Address:
27 North 27th Street, 23rd Floor (top of the Crown Plaza Hotel).
Mailing Address:
Flakesgiving Mailing Address
PO BOX 1276
Billings, Montana 59103
Flakesgiving Frequently Asked Questions:
How do I get a meal?: We won’t take any delivery addresses until the week of the event which starts November 14, 2016. If you know somebody that needs one delivered who can’t come pick one up call the studio 248-5665 or the office 248-7827. We will get them on the list & volunteer delivery drivers will deliver to them.
Is Flakesgiving a real charity? Yes! It is a real charity. However, unlike some charities, Flakesgiving has very low overhead. Funds go to buy food, paying the taxes required and an accountant to keep the book. Every single penny goes to feed hungry families. Mark and Paul don’t take a dime and they never will.
How many people benefit from Flakesgiving? We create, distribute and deliver 1,500 complete meals. Each meal feed 7-10 people. That means over 10,000 people will eat because of Flakesgiving. It’s the biggest event of its kind in the state of Montana.
What does a Flakesgiving meal come with?
- 10-15 lb. turkey
- 10# of potatoes
- Celery
- Onions
- Corn
- Stuffing
- Gravy Mix
- Rolls
- 2 boxes of mac & cheese
- Gravy Mix
How can I help?:
Donate: The cost of this meal is about $27. Each meal feeds 7-10 people. Mark & Paul have fine-tuned this event to get the best value for the families we help. Your donations mean a lot. Change someone’s holiday, give them hope, help our community in a real, tangible way.
Volunteer: We know that we’ve got several groups of volunteers this year and many more helping, but we can never have too many folks helping out. Volunteers are a big part of Flakesgiving. Grab your class, your team or the people in your office and come help Mark & Paul feed 10,000 people! You will be glad you did. It feels good to help so many people in such a short amount of time. We always need drivers – help us get this food to the people that cannot pick it up themselves.
Don’t be late: Mark & Paul start at 10am sharp. Get to MetraPark in time to be parked, walk over & get briefed so we can start at 10am. Please don’t be late.
Let’s hope for generous donations and some decent weather.
3 ways to donate: If you would like to donate money, mail a check to the address below, stop by the studio M-F 8a-5p or call our business line at 406-248-7827.
Make Checks Payable to:
Flakesgiving Fund
Studio Address:
27 North 27th Street, 23rd Floor (top of the Crown Plaza Hotel).
Mailing Address:
Flakesgiving Mailing Address
PO BOX 1276
Billings, Montana 59103