Turkey Tuesday Food Fight Fundraisers
Join 12News and schools across Arizona to step up and tackle hunger. Every $20 raised puts a turkey on the table for a family this Thanksgiving.
Calling All Arizona Schools!
Step up and compete in Turkey Tuesday's Food Fight Fundraisers. From now until Turkey Tuesday (the Tuesday before Thanksgiving), your school can join the Food Fight Fundraising Challenge. Compete against rival schools, rally your community, and see what your school can do to support the community when it comes together.
Sign up your school today, rally your community, and lock in your spot on the leaderboard
1. Choose Your Role
Setting up your school's page? Select As A Team and create your school's page — this becomes the hub every student, teacher, and parent donates and rallies around.
Joining your school's team? Select As A Team Member, search for your school by name, and you're in.
Start or Join Your School's Team
2 Tell Your School's Story
School admins: Write a short description of what Turkey Tuesday means for your community and why you're rallying your school to give back. Not sure where to start? Use the built-in AI tool to help write or polish it.
Team members: Add a quick note on why you're fundraising for your school — it personalizes your ask when you share your link.
3 Personalize Your Page
School admins: Add your school's mascot or logo, finish your description, and set your school's fundraising goal — this is the number your whole school is competing to hit.
Team members: Add your own photo and personal note so your page is ready to share.
You can edit this information anytime from your donor portal.
4 Share And Rally Your School
Log in to grab your share link and QR code. Post it on social, email it, text it, or drop the QR on flyers and signage around school. Team members: this same link is how you invite classmates, teachers, and family to join your school's team.
The key: Repetition. Share links and QR codes every week and ramp up the energy as Turkey Tuesday approaches — the final week is when most donations come in.
5 Track The Competition
Log in to your donor portal monitor your school's progress. Check the leaderboard on this page to see how your school stacks up against others, who's donated, and your total raised.
6 Finish Strong For The Win
As Turkey Tuesday approaches, push hard for the title. Remind everyone that $20 = 1 turkey. Share the countdown, get teachers and coaches to spread the word, and rally the whole school for one final push.
The school who raises the most this Turkey Tuesday will win a $1,000 prize thanks Bashas' as well as a feature on 12News!
School Food Fight Fundraisers
FAQ Getting Started
First, select As a Team Member to search and confirm your school isn't already listed. If your school does not have a fundraiser, be the one who kicks it off! Select As A Team and create your school's page, and you'll become your school's team admin.
Click here, follow the steps to create your school's team page or join a school's team page as an individual fundraiser, and verify your email. You’ll be live in minutes and get access to a Donor Portal to track donations received on your page.
We recommend one official team page per school so all donations count toward the same total for the competition. If you're not sure whether your school already has a page, select As a Team Member to search for your school's fundraiser before starting a new one.
Yes. Once you set up a team send people to your page and have them click on the “Join Team” to create their own fundraiser under your team. Anyone who joins through it becomes part of your team, and their donations count toward your shared goal.
Double check the spelling, or reach out to Community Engagement Manager Alejandra Bucon at [email protected] — your school's team may not be set up yet, or it may be listed under a slightly different name.
Any student, teacher, or parent can join their school's team — you don't need to be part of a team or club to participate.
Absolutely! Log in to your Donor Portal to see your fundraiser's stats, including who's donated, where they're giving from, and how close you are to reaching your goal.
No. Everything runs online. You just need internet access and an email address.
Yes. All donations support St. Vincent de Paul and are tax deductible and donor will get an instant receipt by email for tax records. Donations to St. Vincent de Paul also qualifies for the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit. You can get a dollar-for-dollar credit on your Arizona state taxes, up to $1,009 for joint filers and $506 for single filers. Learn more about the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit.
Please reach out to Community Engagement Manager Alejandra Bucon at [email protected]. Thank you for your interest in helping us feed families this holiday season!
Fundraising not your thing? That’s okay, simply give a turkey, or two, or three, Today!
Use the Calculator to the Right to figure out how big of an impact you can make to this year’s Turkey Tuesday.