S(o)uper Bowl Food Drive 2026: February 5-6

This event, beginning the Thursday before the Super Bowl and culminating on Super Bowl Sunday, is a fun competition between local neighborhoods to collect as much food as they can to restock local pantries at a time when shelves are depleted after the winter holidays.  Each participating neighborhood needs a Captain who can publicize the event and establish a neighborhood collection spot.  Items must be counted and delivered to the designated food pantry on Super Bowl Sunday. Winners are announced the following weeks.  Make sure your neighborhood is represented!

 If you’d like to get involved for 2026, email us to let us know.

If you’ll be leading the collection, here’s what you’ll do:

• Designate a collection point and share the flyer the best way for your neighborhood – neighborhood FB, Nextdoor group, email distribution, flyers or several of these options.
• Collect. We recommend collecting Thursday, February 5th to Sunday, February 8th to limit the amount of effort needed to monitor and store items. If you’d like to collect earlier than 2/5, that’s fine too.
• Count up the loot and report it back – each item is worth 1 point – large packs of diapers, formula, and Enfamil drink are worth 5.  
• Take fun pictures and send them to us.
• Deliver everything to your designated pantry (see below) on February 8th from 11am-1pm. Delivery locations:

Winning neighborhoods:

2025 (over 18,500 items collected – one of our biggest years with 55 neighborhoods participating) 6 neighborhoods collected over 500 items. 5 neighborhoods over 1000 items. 8 neighborhoods more than doubled their collections from last year. We expanded neighborhoods in Annapolis and Pasadena and expanded this year into Glen Burnie.

Most Items Per House: Schoolers Pond – 11.86. Most Improved: Bay Hills – 300% increase over last collection. Most Items Overall: Winchester on the Severn – 1624 items. We had our first organization participate: The Sunday Kids Chesapeake …with Dunkin‘ as their drop off!

2024 (17,473 items for 6 pantries and the AA County Food Bank!) 69 Captains represented 73 neighborhoods
We welcomed 20 new Captains. We added Eastport (St. Luke’s) and the Eastern Shore (Haven Ministries). Most Items Per House: Winchester on the Severn – 15.64 items. Most Improved: Cape McKinsey – 4.36% increase over last collection. Most Items Overall: Shipley’s Choice – 1688 items

2023 (18,763 items collected) Winning neighborhood by volume: Shipley’s Choice (1516 items) Per house winner: Winchester on the Severn (10.10 items per house). Neighborhoods with biggest improvement: Severna Park – Oakleigh Forest (434 more items than 2022) Broadneck – Schoolers Pond (133 more items than 2022)

2022 (16,000 items collected) Erin Garth (15 houses contributing 160 items) & West Severna Park (contributing 930 items)

2021 (over 20,500 items collected) Cape McKinsey (25 houses contributing 307 items) & Round Bay & West Severna Park (each contributing over 1500 items)

2020 (over 4500 items collected) Severna Gardens 82 houses contributing 615 items

2019 (over 6000 items collected) Oakleigh Forest (1200 items) & adjusting for size, Severna Gardens with 82 houses contributing 504 items

2018 (Over 8000 items collected) Shipley’s Choice (1100 items) & Park Ridge (34 houses contributing 253 items