Thank you for contacting Food Lion
regarding your request for our support. Food Lion's philanthropic
focus is on ending hunger in the towns and cities we serve
through Food Lion Feeds, our hunger-relief initiative.
Food Lion Feeds was created in 2014
to help our neighbors experiencing hunger within the communities
we served. At that time, we set a goal of donating 500M
meals by 2020. We achieved that goal in mid-2019. We then
committed to donating one billion more meals by the end of 2025.
TOGETHER, we are well on our way of achieving that goal.
Food Lion values the contributions
of the many volunteer and community groups and organizations that
raise funds for important causes in the towns and cities we
serve. To that end, we may allow 501(c)3 charitable organizations
who are fundraising for local causes to solicit outside of our
stores on Saturdays up to two times per calendar year when Food
Lion is not running an in-store charitable campaign. *
Guidelines for Application:
Charitable organizations may apply
up to a maximum of two
times per calendar year to solicit on these Saturday
dates only:
Dates in 2025:
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January 25
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February 1, 15
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March 29
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April 5, 12, 19, 26
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May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
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June 7, 14
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July 19, 26
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August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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September 6, 13
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October 25
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November 1
Please note that a separate request must be made for
each store location you are requesting. Application listing
more that one store location cannot be processed.
Solicitation guidelines:
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Bake sales, open food or drink,
car washes and membership drives are not allowed. Food Lion
also strictly prohibits any individual or group from
petitioning or distributing any type of literature on our
premises.
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Solicitations are permitted on
Saturdays only. Only one charity can solicit at a store on a
given Saturday. Charitable organizations may solicit twice in a
calendar year.
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Solicitors are not allowed before
sunrise or after sunset.
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Solicitation is permitted to the
right of the door entrance (facing the store) at least 15 feet
from the doorway to enable customers to enter and exit the
store comfortably.
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Two solicitors may be present for
each approved event. If the event is youth-related, two adults
and two children should be present.
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The area of solicitation should
be kept neat, clean and professional in appearance. Solicitors
should present professional courteous behavior.
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Solicitors must adhere to all
state and local CDC guidelines that may be in place.
Food Lion reserves the right to
deny access to any group or person at its discretion or revoke
any access provided at the sole discretion of Food Lion
management. No person shall unduly interfere with the normal use
of our stores, including ingress to and egress from these stores,
employees' work and customers' shopping. Further, the person(s)
should not interfere with the operation of other businesses that
may be located nearby. The Store Manager has the right to deny
solicitation if the above procedures are not followed.
Please note all contributions are
made at the sole discretion of Food Lion or its charitable
foundation, Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation. It is our goal
to ensure that all donations from Food Lion are provided to
organizations that treat its constituents fairly and with
equality, and that these organizations do not discriminate based
on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual
orientation or gender identity.
*A local Store is described as within a 10-mile radius of
the organization's location.