Project Harvest – A Thanksgiving Food Drive for Washington, DC

Project Harvest was a food drive for Thanksgiving that was sponsored by NBC4for many years. In 2006, the news station changed its food donation program to one called "Food4Families."

Donate non-perishable food and money to feed underprivileged families a Thanksgiving meal through an annual food drive in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The drop off locations are at several Safeway Foodstores around the region.

Project Harvest was started in 1966 by a woman named Lillian "Ma" Greene who cooked Thanksgiving dinners in her own kitchen to feed her less fortunate neighbors. She went door to door in her neighborhood to collect food donations and then served Thanksgiving to 80 families. Project Harvest grew over the years and last year close to 5,000 families received food baskets.