Opportunity Details

We are seeking volunteers to help
Us receive donations, record, label and stock them on Monday'from 11-1

Opportunity Details

SPFC provides mobile meal kits to walk-up clients who are unable to store and/or prepare the fresh food we primarily distribute through our We Help FRESH Pantry. Mobile meal kits are also distributed throughout our community by our We Care Team to individuals experiencing homelessness along with resources on how they can access SPFC services. Volunteers will help assemble mobile meal kits for these efforts!

Opportunity Details

This is a hands-on volunteer role. Volunteers must be willing and able to work with people of different backgrounds and nationalities, exhibit compassion and sensitivity, maintain safe working conditions, and uphold strict confidentiality of all member and volunteer information.

Responsibilities will include some or all of the following: 
Assisting in unloading food donations and putting them in storage areas 
Moving and arranging food to facilitate the distribution process
Loading food boxes into client vehicles
Packing food boxes 
Stocking food shelves
Sanitizing and cleaning  
Other duties as assigned 

Physical Requirements:

This volunteer activity does require some heavy lifting, a minimum of 25 lbs., and regular movement.

Age Requirements:   Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age to volunteer.

Opportunity Details

CANAPI provides a food pantry of fresh organic food every other week for people living with HIV experiencing financial hardship. Having access to healthy food is extremely important for people living with HIV as they are immunocompromised. We are in need of regular volunteers to help us continue to operate this pantry.

Opportunity Details

Community Representatives have specific subject matter expertise such as: victims of home invasions, landlord, firefighter, substance use, etc. They attend a guided session with the person in conflict or person harmed to share their experiences in that specific subject, with the intention of promoting understanding.

Opportunity Details

We are offering opportunities for people to cook and serve nourishing sit down meals to people in Harlem, NYC. Our meals are created with love from donated produce and excess goods in NYC. We serve over 500 meals a week in a sit down restaurant fashion, so our guests feel the dignity of feeling served. Our volunteers get to pour out love and attention in service to those in need. Volunteers will cook meals, setup the restaurant, serve guests, clean up, or tear down, whatever they have interest in.

Free Food Harlem is a project of Free Food USA which is part of Unconditional Freedom

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Cooking and food prep	5	n/a	n/a
Cooking and food prep	5	n/a	n/a
Restaurant Setup and Serving	5	n/a	n/a
Restaurant Setup and Serving	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We are a busy food bank in the U District of Seattle that serves 1000 households weekly through our programs. We strive to serve our community in a dignified manner and connect people to the food access that they need to be healthy.

We have more info about our volunteering opportunities here: https://www.udistrictfoodbank.org/involved/

Thank you for your interest in volunteering at our Food Bank! Volunteers help to distribute food to our customers 6 days a week Monday-Saturday. There are several different volunteer roles on site and off-site that support the work we do in the community. You can read through the roles that are currently available at the food bank to get an idea of what you might like to do and apply below!

*Please note we are still requiring volunteers to be fully vaccinated against covid (not including boosters).

Shifts and Roles at the Food Bank

Front of House (Food Bank Shopping Area)

Good skills for these roles: Customer service skills, someone who loves interacting with people!

Greeter: Manages the line of customers that are waiting to come into the food bank. Welcomes them, answers any questions, and allows a certain number of customers in to shop to allow for capacity, gives sheets to those who want someone to shop for them, hand out sandwiches and to-go bags.

Check in volunteer: Checks in customers into our intake database, gives them a shopping card, and answers any questions customers have. This role is sitting and working with a computer.

Check-out volunteer: Helps bag up customer groceries and check limits that are allowed based on their shopping cards, double bagging bags, and sanitizing. This role is standing.

Stocker: Goes back and forth between the warehouse (Back of house) area and the shopping store and stocks items that are low.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
8am- 11am 8am-11am 8am 10:30pm 8am-11am
10:45am-1pm 10:45am-1pm 11am- 2pm 11am- 1pm 10:45 am- 2pm
12:45pm- 4pm 12:45pm- 3pm 12:45pm- 3pm 1:45pm- 5pm
2:45pm- 6pm 2:45pm- 6pm 5pm- 7pm
5:45pm- 7:45pm 5:45pm- 7:45pm
These shifts get started with 15 minutes overlap from the previous shift to allow a handoff of volunteers and any information that needs to be passed on from food bank floor manager before the start of your shift.

Back of House (Sorting And Food Storage Area)

Includes: Sorting pallets of donations including produce, deli, dairy and other items. Repackaging bulk items; Receiving donations; Breaking down and recycling cardboard; Bagging up produce like apples, potatoes and onions; Clean-up of warehouse; Sanitizing work spaces; Double bagging paper bags.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
8am-11am 8am- 12pm 8am- 11am 8am- 12pm 10am-12pm 9am-11:00am
11am- 1pm 12pm- 3pm 11am- 2pm 12pm- 3pm 12pm-2pm 11:00am- 1pm
1pm- 4pm 3pm- 6pm 3pm- 6pm 2pm- 5pm 12:30am-2pm
6pm- 8pm 6pm- 8pm
Home Delivery Program Drivers:

Home Delivery Drivers support no-contact deliveries of bags and boxes of food to our neighbors who are disabled or otherwise homebound. Routes are usually about 7-8 stops and take about anywhere from 1 1/2- 2 hours. The routes are grouped in certain geographic areas in our service area in North Seattle (Green lake, U district, Sandpoint, Cap Hill etc.). This is a great way to get to know the neighborhood you live in better. You may have neighbors in need you might not even know about! We deliver Wednesdays and Saturdays and often need substitute home delivery drivers.

Requirements: Have your own vehicle. Being able to lift 40 pounds is good for this role. Must be able to pass a background check.

We are in need of sub drivers for the home delivery program!

If you are able to be on a sub list and drive a home delivery route once in a while, please sign up by checking the box in your application. Emails go out each week. We’d love to have you!

Grocery Rescue Help:

Grocery Rescue is what we call going out to our neighborhood grocery stores to pick up (or rescue!) donations that have been set aside for us. This one major way we stock our shelves at the food bank! We have volunteers that go out in their own vehicles to collect from stores, or volunteers that do shifts riding along with a staff member in a UDFB vehicle to pick up donations. There is lifting of about 40 pound at times in these roles.

Grocery Rescue Volunteers with Cars: This job involves going out to a designated store once (or more if you like!) a week and picking up the donations they have set aside for us and bring them back to the food bank. This super important and helpful role helps us pick up all the donations that are available to us and keeps our shelves stocked. We have limited staff and time so we need helpers to collect everything! This is a fun one to see one system of support for the food bank, and how stores support the work we do, as well as reducing food waste!

This role requires at least a 3 month commitment, and a in person walk through of the store you choose with staff the first time.

(We can talk more at volunteer orientation about stores and times, these are listed in a volunteer account that you will make at orientation)

Grocery Rescue Ride Along Volunteer:

This volunteer will ride along with a staff grocery rescue driver in our food bank vehicle and assist with picking up from local grocery stores donations. This is a fun way to see how we stock our shelves and how our community partners support us. There is some heavy lifting of about 40 lbs with this role.

Rooftop Roots Farm Volunteers: Update: CLOSED FOR CONSTRUCTION! We are getting beautiful new beds built, and will reopen in the spring or summer 🙂 We will notify in our volunteer portal when shifts are available!

Volunteers support operations up on our Rooftop Farm. Includes: harvesting, planting, weeding, other farm projects. Using the link below, you can sign up to volunteer in the garden.

Opportunity Details

Alliance for Positive Change is a multiservice organization that provides low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and other chronic conditions with access to quality health care, housing, harm reduction, coaching, peer services, and more. Through our Food and Nutrition Services, we provide daily meals, monthly food pantry, food vouchers, and connection to food and nutrition counseling. Food and Nutrition Services help alleviate food insecurity and stabilize participants so they can focus on their other positive change goals.

We need volunteers on the 3rd Tuesday of every month to assist with assembling pantry bags that will be distributed at our four sites.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Pantry Assembly Volunteer Shifts	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Time Commitment: 1.5 hours/bi-weekly/morning shifts only (before 11:30 AM)
Requirements: large vehicle, valid driver’s license, ability to lift 20-30lbs, reliable, 18 years +, valid driver's license

Role Overview
Do you want to help maintain food dignity for the families at Discovery House?

Discovery House is a second stage shelter for women and children healing from the trauma of domestic violence. We are looking for drivers to pick-up donations and unload them at our shelter.

The Volunteer Driver picks up donations set aside for Discovery House from East Hills Costco. This role requires sound judgement to filter inappropriate or unneeded donations when picking up based on a guide provided by the Volunteer Coordinator. The Driver is responsible for driving the items to Discovery House and unloading with the assistance of the Volunteer Coordinator or other volunteers onsite. This role is one of the most integral for our organization.

Opportunity Details

Nuestro campamento JESUS REY el propósito es que los niños de zonas vulnerables de todo Santo Domingo y zonas aledañas puedan disfrutar un tiempo de enseñanza, disfrute y juego. Nuestro deseo que Republica dominicana tenga una sociedad sana una familia funcional y una infancia feliz. en este campamento se estará dictando talleres, conferencias a más de 2,000 niños será totalmente gratuito.

Por esa razón, apelamos a su buena voluntad y espíritu de colaboración y nos ayude con kit de raciones de comida, medicamentos, ropa, juguetes, útiles escolares, etc ya que estaremos todo el día con talleres y conferencias y proporcionarles también de manera gratuita todo lo donado

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	100	n/a	n/a