The Downtown Lansing Food Fight, coordinated by Downtown Lansing Inc. (DLI), is an excellent example of a community (downtown workers) coming together in friendly competition to support a great cause.

With a coordinated push to collect non-perishables in time for Thanksgiving and the holiday season, participating offices vie for one of two trophies: the heavyweight trophy for most food collected (by pound) or the Food Fight trophy, awarded to the organization who collected the most food per person (averaged).

In this way, DLI and downtown workers collected more than $3,000 in donations and 5,000 pounds of food last year, just in time to provide food for holiday dinners to those most in need.