Amtgard Food Fight

2009

The Amtgard-Wide Food Fight was held the weekend of September 19-20, 2009. The idea for a Kingdom-wide Food Drive arose during a Dragonspine Circle of Knights meeting. The idea being to have the wide-spread kingdom of Dragonspine take one weekend and use it for a shared goal. Initially organized by Sir GoldCrest, this quickly grew into an Amtgard-wide initiative as Sir Iago and Squire Francis were already planning something between Dragonspine proper and Burning Lands. That started the spread into other Kingdoms and slowly but surely many of the other Kingdoms got behind the concept.
The hope is to focus support across multiple lands to show just how much impact we can have when we all work together towards one goal.
Initially organized in Dragonspine it came to encompass representatives and donations from almost every kingdom of Amtgard. Various lands throughout Amtgard held functions with the goal to raise food and money to be donated to food banks in each chapter's locale.

Basic Info

- The Food Fight is in September because it falls in a bit of a dead zone for food banks. They have spent the summer supplying free lunches to children usually supported through free/reduced school meals. They are trying to recover before the holiday rush sets in. People often associate food bank drives with the holidays. Obviously, this puts them a bit behind the power curve. Any support we can do in advance helps them be better prepared for the winter months/holidays.
- http://feedingamerica.org is the name/site for the national Second Harvest program. We ask everyone to look it over for local information on different ways to maximize assistance. The website has plenty of information that will often encourage support.
- Many people don’t realize that Food Banks step up and organize free meals to replace those normally served as free/reduced meals to children during the school year. Also, for every dollar raised, it equates to approximately 13 dollars in buying power through sponsorships and charitable discounts. Every dollar donated equates to about 10 pounds of food for hungry men, women and children.

- Each Kingdom/CoK simply establishes a POC to work with the individual lands to get some things planned/advertised.
- Once the weekend is completed, Kingdom reps post their results so that final metrics can be collected and announced, this lets everyone see the true impact.
- All proceeds/donations are for the local food bank/pantries.
- The type/running of each event is up to each land hosting it.

Some ideas: - Dollar/Can Food Tournaments
- Can Food Drive/Collections
- Sell sodas/snacks and donate profits (this is particularly good if you have something already planned that weekend)

There is hope of turning the food fight into an annual occurance sponsored by the Circles of Knights across the Kingdoms.

2009 Reps

Organizer: GoldCrest
Dragonspine: Annabellee/Azrael-Jade
-Westmarch (Under Dragonspine): Gwendair/Deimos
Celestial Kingdom: Sylvanista
Burning Lands: Iago/Calianna
Rising Winds: Thorvald
Crystal Groves: Angela Mastersinger/Lodan
Wetlands: Corwin
Neverwinter: Covina
Goldenvale: Bowen
Blackspire: Tseng
IM: Hannibal
EH: Warlord Sports

2009 Results

Dragonspine: $396 62 items + Westmarch: $241.39 plus 237 items = $637.39 and 299 items
Celestial Kingdom: $597.07 150 items (est.)
Burning Lands: $250 40 items
Rising Winds: 592 items
Crystal Groves: 180 items
Wetlands: 244 items
Neverwinter: 338 items
Emerald Hills: $120 by Warlord Sports
IM: 48 items
GRAND TOTAL: $1604.46 + 1891 items