Opportunity Details

Overview
FareStart’s Food Security Team partners with area food rescue nonprofits, local farms, and food businesses to pick up food donations. This product will be used in our community meals, at our mobile markets, to support student training, and in other food security initiatives. It helps FareStart incorporate fresh, local, and nutritious products into those programs, diversify ingredients we wouldn’t otherwise be able to purchase, and minimize costs.

Tasks
This ongoing weekly volunteer role will support in a variety of activities, including:
• Receiving, sorting, and processing recovered and donated food for immediate use, transfer, or long-term storage
• Prepping product to be viable for immediate use by kitchens and for storage.
• Sorting, weighing, labeling and other inventory related tasks
• Basic kitchen prep tasks
• Sorting and organizing product based on each programs needs and setting items up for transfer and pick up

Schedule and Location
• Tuesdays, 4:30pm-6:00pm at 700 Virginia St, Seattle WA 98101

Qualifications and Requirements
• Be able to lift up to 35 pounds repeatedly
• Be able to stand and walk for up to 2 hours
• Adhere to FareStart's volunteer expectations
• Flexibility: tasks and amount of work may change week to week
• Must be 18yrs +

Opportunity Details

Help us transport water to the donation drop off

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Join us every Saturday to help provide free food to over 1,500 people at our outdoor food distribution in North Bethesda! Volunteers play a vital role in ensuring a smooth and efficient process by assisting with food packing, distributing groceries, directing traffic, and helping families receive much-needed supplies.

This is a fast-paced, high-energy event where teamwork makes a huge impact! Volunteers should be prepared to stand for long periods, wear closed-toe shoes, and dress for the weather. No prior experience is necessary—just a willingness to serve and make a difference.

Sign up today and be a part of feeding our community!

Opportunity Details

Our volunteers are the heart and soul of our mission. Their commitment and hard work inspire us every day. Let's continue to make a positive impact together! We are flexible on commitment but encourage once a week to build relationships with the patrons. Filling in on holiday breaks and when our placement students are off is also needed. Schedule is posted the week before and volunteers can claim shifts that work for their schedule.

Our values:
People First | Accessible & Low Barrier | Caring & Responsive | Safe & Trusted | Equitable & Respectful

9:15-1:15 or 12pm-4pm Monday-Friday:
-Coat Check: Assist patrons with our coat check procedures. Patrons put items in a sealed container during their visit and sometimes need to be gently reminded about our rules. One coat check volunteer takes down the patrons information while two other coat-check volunteers place the bins in a secure location and then wipe the bins out after use.
-Washroom Volunteers: Sign the patrons in and out of our washrooms, use a sanitizing wipe on high-touch surfaces like door knobs and taps after each use (not a detailed clean).

9:15-1:15PM Monday-Friday (no afternoon shift):
-Food and Clothing Bank: Organize and fulfill pantry orders for our patrons
-Food Service Volunteers: hand out pre-plated lunch, serve coffee, water and juice

Monday-Saturday 8am-Noon:
-Kitchen Volunteers: Cook, chop, plate lunch, and tidy the kitchen

As Needed:
-Pick Ups and Drops Offs: Occasionally, we need volunteers to pick up items, or drop them off around Oshawa and the surrounding area, such as bags of out-going or incoming donations

Opportunity Details

Volunteer at Milwaukee's hottest chili event and raise funds for Frontier Radio WMSE 91.7FM. 40-60 local restaurants will serve chili, WMSE DJs spin Rockabilly records, and Hunger Task Force will collect non-perishable food donations for families in the Milwaukee area. Last year over 1,300 lbs of food was collected.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
2nd Shift	32	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The CEC is seeing more people in our food pantry than ever before. We are serving approximately 200 families daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

We desperately need volunteers to help sort and prepare baskets of food to be distributed to families.

Opportunity Details

Slice Out Hunger, the nation’s foremost pizza nonprofit, needs your help with their primary ongoing #Pizza4Good initiative, Pie it Forward.

What?
Pie it Forward is an ongoing project that is designed to get pizza to individuals experiencing food insecurity by setting up deliveries to soup kitchens, food banks, free meal programs, senior centers, clinics, and hunger action centers. As a virtual volunteer, you would be assigned to requests from hunger relief organizations and contact them by phone & email so you can work with them on the logistics of for a free pizza delivery.


When?
This is an ongoing year-round project and we'd love your help during any timeframes that you're available. If you have a few hours of weekday daytime availability on a weekly basis (preferably spread out in 20ish minute increments), you're perfect for this project!

For new volunteers, we offer onboarding sessions to get you up to speed on making calls and moving requests through our project management system. We'll work with you to schedule an onboarding session that works for you.


Who can volunteer?
They welcome all volunteers 18 years or older. This is a virtual project so all you need is access to a phone and computer!


Where?
Since this is a virtual project, it can be done from your home, your favorite coffee shop, the park at the end of your block, or anywhere! So long as you have access to a phone, computer, and WIFI, you’re all set!

Opportunity Details

Assemble bags and boxes of various grocery items to be delivered directly to our homebound seniors. Volunteers may also assist with down-stacking pallets of food, and restocking our warehouse shelves.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Warehouse Grocery Packing & Stocking	20	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

On Saturday, April 12, Birch Community Services will hold benefit auction from 5:00-9:00 pm.

Funds raised will directly support our mission of building a financially stable community by providing education, food, and nurturing accountability.

Volunteers will help in all areas of the event from serving food, bartending, and helping provide hospitality to our approximately 140 guests.

We'll also be working earlier in the day on setting up the space, and transforming the German American Society Ballroom into a whimsical garden party.

Join us in reaching our goal by lending a hand. Your support will play a crucial role in helping us achieve our objective and make a positive impact.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Event Volunteer	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Did you know 1 in 8 Georgians are facing hunger today?

Let's do something about it!

Forget the gym - time to work out for a cause. Join the fight to end hunger with a high-energy session of activities at our Atlanta warehouse. As a Hunger Action Center volunteer, you may assist with a myriad of tasks including sorting and packing recently donated food, repackaging produce or grains for families,  or boxing non-perishable items for seniors across Atlanta. 

There are a number of projects that happen in our Hunger Action Center that all guarantee an amazing day of volunteering! We will train you on your day of service for the project of the day. Rest assured that the music is loud, the packing is fast-paced and the personal reward of making a difference can't be replaced. 

After registering here, please visit https://vhub.at/BeazerHomes to sign up on the Food Bank's site. This allows their team to prepare for the right number of volunteers and will make the check-in process smooth.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Hunger Action Center Morning	25	n/a	n/a
Hunger Action Center Afternoon	25	n/a	n/a