92 volunteers from Allstate gathered in Hudson, Ohio to build 200 Ronald McDonald House Comfort Bags. The kits are meant for families staying at Ronald McDonald House while a child is in the hospital.
How it worked
This was an in-person, self-hosted build. Materials arrived in bulk rather than as individual boxed kits, and the team set up a production line, with each station adding one part to the Comfort Bags as they moved down the line. Allstate ran the session on its own using Project Helping’s facilitator guide and printed kit instructions, with no Project Helping staff on site. A Project Helping program manager set up the program in advance, arranged for the materials to ship to Hudson with everything needed for 200 kits, and included step-by-step instructions with the shipment. Once the build wrapped, the finished Comfort Bags shipped back to Project Helping using prepaid return labels. After the event, Allstate received an impact report, and volunteers can register their kits to see where they ended up.
The 200 Comfort Bags moved into Project Helping’s nonprofit network for distribution to Ronald McDonald House families. For a team looking to run something similar, a production line build like this one is a way to get a large group building together toward a shared cause in a single session.
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