Basie Center Academy Fall Food Drive

Count Basie Center Academy Fall Food Drive

SEPT 15 - OCT 15

Tickets: Free!

SEPT 15 – OCTOBER 15
Dropoff Locations:
Count Basie Center for the Arts (99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank)
The Basie Center’s Monmouth Conservatory of Music (65 Chestnut Street, Red Bank)
Count Basie Center Academy of the Arts (99 Monmouth Street; The Vopgel entrance, 3rd Floor)
Phoenix Productions, 59 Chestnut Street, Red Bank


The Count Basie Center Academy of the Arts and affiliated programs are conducting a food drive to benefit Fulfill‘s efforts in tackling food insecurity in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

We’re currently collecting non-perishable items, especially:

– Canned tuna, chicken & salmon
– Canned veggies
– Cooking oils
– Shelf-stable milk
– Pancake mix and syrup
– Peanut butter & jelly
– Canned fruits
– Fruit juice
– Soups (chicken noodle, chicken and rice, beef vegetable, minestrone, split pea, lentil)
– Hot cereals (oatmeal, steel-cut oats, farina, muesli)
– Ready-to-eat canned meats (chili, chicken w/ rice and vegetables, stew, spaghetti and meatballs, ravioli)
– Cold cereals (Toasted O’s, bran flakes, corn flakes, wheat brown rice, Grape-Nuts, Special K, Fiber One cereals, Cascadian Farms & Kashi Cereals)
Low sodium canned vegetables (Green beans, corn, mixed veggies, yams)
– Cranberry Sauce
– Boxed stuffing
– Gravy
– Canned soup and broth
– Spices (cinnamon, allspice, ginger, cardamom, cloves, vanilla extract)
– Baking items (Sugar, Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Salt, Chocolate Chips)
– Baking mixes (Pie crust, cornbread, cookies, pumpkin bread)