Ninety Allstate volunteers gathered in Chicago, IL to build 100 Chemo Care kits for people going through cancer treatment. The team worked in person, self-hosted, using a production line build to move through the full order.
How it worked
This was a self-hosted, in-person build. Rather than each person assembling a full kit alone, volunteers set up an assembly line, with each station adding one part until all 100 kits were complete. A Project Helping program manager set up the program in advance, and the kits arrived with everything needed along with a facilitator guide and step-by-step instructions, so the Allstate team could run the session on their own. Once the build wrapped, the finished kits shipped back to Project Helping using prepaid labels for delivery to a nonprofit in Project Helping’s recipient network. Afterward, Allstate received an impact report, and volunteers can register their kits to see where they ended up.
The 100 Chemo Care kits built that day will go to people going through chemo, offering comfort during treatment. Programs like this one show how a large in-person group can turn a single event into a hundred kits for people who need them. Any team looking to run something similar, in Chicago or elsewhere, can set up a build of their own.
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