Opportunity Details

This role involves coordinating a food drive in your workplace or community centre, including organising logistics and promoting the event.

Key tasks:
• Organise a food drive in your workplace
• Agree the date and duration
• Liaise with your local food bank and supermarket
• Lead on communications promoting the food drive
• Coordinate all logistics during the event
• Thank all donors for their contributions
• Coordinate the transport to get the food to the food bank.

About you
• Excellent communication skills
• Organised and self-motivated
• Passionate about the work of the Trussell Trust

Impact of the role
We cannot state strongly enough how important food donations are to our food banks. Without the boxes, packets and cans of items being regularly donated across the UK we simply wouldn’t be able to run. And as we face an ever increasing demand for our services, so the value of food donations grows. Your food donations will go directly to people in need in your local community, making a direct and real impact.

IMPORTANT: HOW TO ORGANISE A FOOD DRIVE
1. Contact your local Trussell Trust food bank to find out what’s on their most wanted list as well as finding out if there are any items they have a surplus off.
2. Agree the location of your food collection. Make sure you have permission from your manager/community group to host a food drive. Work out with them exactly where the collection will take place – ideally you’re looking for somewhere central like the entrance hall so that it’s as easy as possible for people to find and drop off their donations.
3. Select the dates of your food drive. We advise hosting the food drive for 1 or 2 weeks, so people have a specific amount of time to donate items and it remains fresh in their minds.
4. Make sure you have something to gather the donations in. Speak to your local supermarket and see if they would be able to donate a trolley or basket for the duration of your food drive. Seeing a trolley in the entrance hall can be a great reminder for people to bring in their donations. Decorate the area with our food drive poster.
5. Promote your food drive. Making sure people know about your food drive and what they need to do is absolutely crucial to its success. People like to be informed about how they can make a difference.
6. Make sure you circulate our food list to everyone so they know what to give.
7. Collect items! Having set up your food drive and promoted to all, you can take a break whilst you watch the collections come in. Every few days send a message to all – thanking those who have donated and reminding those yet to do so that there’s still time to give.

After the event
Once your food drive has finished, box or bag up the food as best you can and contact your local foodbank to agree the best day and time for you to drop off the food.
Finally, remember to get in touch with everyone letting them know:
• How much was collected
• Where the food has gone
• How grateful the food bank is for their support.

Opportunity Details

We will be hosting a free happy hour and networking event prior to a panel discussion about Compass, housing and homelessness in Seattle / King County and general myths about homelessness.

Please reach out / RSVP so we can have a rough headcount.

Please note we *ARE* a dog-friendly office and our office dog may be in attendance and if your office is dog-friendly and you have your four-legged friend with you we encourage you to bring them with as well!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	50	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We need volunteers to help pack Thanksgiving boxes for our families. We need six volunteers two shifts, on Wednesday November 13th. The first shift from 10;30 until 12;30, and the second shift from 12:30 until 2:30. We would appreciate the help. Thank you!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	6	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Emergency Food Network partners with over 80 food pantries, shelters, and hot meal sites in Pierce County. Many of them rely almost entirely on volunteers to keep them running. There truly are tasks for people of all abilities and preferences, including packaging food, guest intake, delivery driving, shelf stocking, data entry, hot meal service, sharing healthy recipes, picking up donations from local stores and restaurants, sorting food, and working curbside to load food into guest vehicles.

Due to Covid-19, food pantries are experiencing an increase in guest visits, with some sites seeing twice as many visits as in 2019.  While many locations have support from the National Guard, this assistance will gradually be phased out towards the end of July, leaving many volunteers roles waiting to be filled. With pantries located throughout Pierce County, there is bound to be an opportunity that can work with your schedule.

We would love to help you find a food pantry to volunteer with that fits your schedule. Just let us know your preferences, and we will help put you in touch with right pantry so you can get started!


Contact us at (253) 584-1040, email MadisonS@efoodnet.org, or visit https://www.efoodnet.org/get-involved/other-volunteer/ to get connected with a program!

Opportunity Details

We are in need of course monitors - this spot is vital in assisting our runners along the course and helps to insure accuracy of the mileage.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Course Monitor	4	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

(NB: Please use your Sodexo email when signing up!)

The Tesco Food Collection runs from 21st November - 23rd November 2019 and is a vital source of longer-life items such as rice, pasta and tinned goods so your support is invaluable. This is where you can step in and become a Christmas hero.

As a volunteer, you will be in store handing out FareShare "shopping lists" with suggestions of what to donate and collecting donations from customers whilst spreading some Christmas cheer.

The food you collect will then be redistributed to nearly 11,000 charities across the country. Sign up to volunteer as an individual or bring your colleagues, family and friends with you.

You can make a big difference to the 8.4 million people currently living in food poverty in the UK.

We only need three hours of your time, 9-12pm, 12-3pm, 3-6pm or 6-9pm. You will simply be in store handing out shopping lists of preferred goods to encourage shoppers to donate those items. A quick and easy way to make a huge difference to the lives of vulnerable people.

How to get involved?

 Sign up as an individual or bring your colleagues, family or friends with you https://fareshare.org.uk/tescofoodcollection/ Please use your work email if you are participating with your company.

 We suggest signing up in small groups up to 3 people per 3 hour session. However, you can also sign up larger groups, just get in touch with us at tescofoodcollection@fareshare.org.uk and we will organise this for you.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Thanksgiving event to hand out food for needy families for Thanksgiving.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	8	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We are in the midst of a planetary crisis with government and world leaders not working fast enough to solve critical issues like climate change, hunger, and the global health epidemic. Change Food is launching a program to encourage residents of local communities to help solve these problems in their own communities.
https://www.changefood.org/plant-eat-share/

Plant Eat Share is a creative effort to encourage growing and/or providing healthy food for free in communities around the world. Change Food will aggregate groups and programs already working in some way to provide healthy food for free to communities, as well as host plantings in designated areas across the US and world. Plant Eat Share will template and encourage other communities to adapt and replicate these programs, as well as to develop new ways to grow and offer food for free. This is being done all in an effort to create a global movement of individuals and groups growing food in their community for all to eat and enjoy.

We're looking for pro bono help in building a database, map, action kits, web framework, and an app perhaps (?) so anyone anywhere at any time can have all the resources they need to plant food in public spaces for the community to eat. For free.

We are also seeking researchers and writers to help gather the information - rather than recreate the wheel, we want to aggregate the best of the best already out there and supplement with our own materials once we identify gaps. We want to promote the great work of other groups and to help bring the food, hunger, climate change and other movements together - all in order to help galvanize a planetary movement of global citizens working to solve problems together, from the ground up.

We would also appreciate experienced help in creative fundraising and social media to help fund and market the program around the world.

Thank you for your consideration. We'll only solve the problems facing us today by working together.

Opportunity Details

MANNA distributes 50,000 pounds of food everyday to serve the more than 110,000 people in WNC's 16 counties facing food insecurity. This is achieved through the hard work of nearly 100 volunteers in MANNA's warehouse everyday. Volunteer projects change daily in the warehouse based on priority and need. Projects could include, but are not limited to: sorting and packing food donations, packing housewares and hygiene products, culling and bagging produce, or packing MANNA Packs.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Kohls-Cause	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We are seeking 10-12 volunteers split into two shifts, 5-6 volunteers from 3pm till 6pm and 5-6 volunteers from 6pm till 9pm please, to assist with directing flow of on foot traffic ( guiding guests in a simple line order from one vendor tent to the next): Handing out flyers/brochures, candy and or gift bags. We may also need assistance with serving food. Henry County Fire & Police Departments along with the Mayor will be present. We ask all participants to wear slip resistant footwear along with your Kohl's Care shirts. Play Hard Elite will also provide volunteer tags to be worn during event. The donation will be applied towards the purchasing of food items for our local veterans food pantry located at the square.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	12	n/a	n/a