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Start your day off right and get some exercise while helping older adults meet their grocery needs. As a volunteer shopper you will work with a team of volunteers to fill and pack orders at the grocery store for about 3 hours once a week or twice per month.

We are especially seeking volunteers to assist on Tuesday mornings at our St Anthony location, conveniently located 2 miles south of I-694 on Silver Lake Road. Shopper shifts begin at 6AM and end about 9AM on weekday mornings. Partial shifts are available if you cannot commit for the full 3 hours due to work commitments. Volunteers do not pay for groceries.

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Looking for an opportunity to help at our Food Rescue facility? Food Finders owes much of its continued success to our dedicated network of volunteers! Everyone who is involved, whether on a regular or occasional basis, has a role in reducing hunger and is essential to sustaining our program. As little as an hour of your time a month or week can make a huge difference. We have no age restriction, although kids under 16 must be joined by a parent or guardian.

We have an ongoing need for volunteers to help us sort and box non-perishable food/hygiene items we receive through our Food Drives and for our Food 4 Kids program.
You can even involve your children and make it a family volunteer activity OR as a team building activity for you and your employees.

During the school year, Food Finders’ provides boxes of non-perishable food items to 47 local Long Beach schools. This donated and purchased food, packed and delivered by a team of volunteers, provides enough for 4-6 meals per family over the weekend in an effort to bridge the hunger gap many children experience when school meals are not available. The program is supported by volunteers who pack the food boxes and deliver the boxes to the schools every Thursday and Friday during the school year.

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Do you have some free time during the day? If so, you might want to help us "rescue" food from going to waste.

Food Finders owes much of its continued success to our dedicated network of volunteers! Everyone who is involved, whether on a regular or occasional basis, has a role in reducing hunger and is essential to sustaining our program. As little as an hour of your time a month or week can make a huge difference. We have no age restriction, although kids under 16 must be joined by a parent or guardian.

Each year, we save an estimated 12 million pounds of food from being thrown away, and instead it is "redirected" to help feed people without money for food.

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The 26th Annual Literary Lions Gala is just around the corner, and the KCLS Foundation is looking to recruit 80 volunteers to help execute this exciting event. The Literary Lions Gala is the main fundraising event benefitting the King County Library System. Funds raised ta the event fund library programs at all 49 KCLS Libraries.

The Literary Lions Gala will be held on Saturday, March 16 at the Bellevue Hyatt Regency’s Grand Ballroom. Keynote Speaker is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jennifer Egan. She will be joined by eighteen distinguished PNW authors as our “Literary Lions.” You can read more about Jennifer Egan and the authors on the event website: kclsfoundation.org/literarylionsgala.

This event requires a team of 80 dedicated volunteers, responsible for crucial tasks including registration, book sales, author support, and more.

Volunteer Info and Requirements
• All volunteers must be at the Bellevue Hyatt by 3 PM on Saturday, March 16 and stay until the completion of event wrap-up at approximately 10 PM.  Time Commitment: 3pm to 10pm
• Volunteers must be at least 21 years of age and should be comfortable engaging with the public.
• Volunteers must be dressed in semi-formal dark attire, such as a suit or a dress.
• Volunteers will attend an orientation and be provided with refreshments and dinner during the event.
• Some volunteer roles may require additional training prior to the event.

To be considered for a volunteer role you must complete an application - link to SurveyMonkey in contact information. Once you complete your application, we will contact you in February to confirm your volunteer status. 

Volunteer Roles
• In the application, you will have the opportunity to indicate your Top 3 desired volunteers roles. *We will make every effort to assign you a role that matches you interests. Assignments are not guaranteed and could change at any time.*
• Available Roles:
o Greeter, Usher, and Wayfinding
o Coat Check
o Author Assistant and Book Sales
o Registration
o Author Salon Sales
o Book Store Assistant
o Bar Sales Assistant
o Premium Wine Sales
o Volunteer Services
o Raise the Paddle Recorder
o Stage Manager (requires additional training)

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Gala Volunteers	80	n/a	n/a

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Help seniors learn to use a computer for basic things like email and internet searches to access important/necessary information as well as recreational content (games, YouTube. Facebook). Community Technology Network Bay Area will train you for the responsibilities and support you in your assignment at a Senior or Community Center Computer Lab. Bring your knowledge, patience and sense of humor to help seniors discover the wonder and power of the world wide web. You don't have to know it all, just be willing to explore, use the internet and figure things out! Trust and relationships are important so we ask for a minimum 3 month commitment to volunteer 2-hours, one day per week on a consistent schedule. We specifically need tutor/teachers who are bilingual in Cantonese or Russian.There are multiple locations in need of bilingual volunteers.

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CHS provides essential home repair services to low income homeowners in Guilford County, North Carolina who cannot physically or financially do the repairs themselves. We would love to have your team join us for an excellent corporate, civic group or faith community team-building experience. Your team will work with our construction crew - no experience necessary! Contact us to set up your volunteer group work day.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	25	n/a	n/a

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Peninsula Food Runners’ mission is to alleviate hunger and minimize food waste in the San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Every day, our volunteers pick up and deliver a wide variety of wonderfully prepared and non-prepared surplus food to community organizations that feed their clients in need.

In 2023, Peninsula Food Runners delivered 2.92 million meals to feed food insecure communities and diverted over 3.5 million pounds of good edible food from the landfill.

Peninsula Food Runners addresses 3 top issues that we are facing today.
1. Hunger and food insecurities contribute to family instability, psychological and physical
trauma. ***Distribution is #1 reason to why donated food can't get to those in need.

2. Food Waste is California's #1 waste. In US, approximately 40% of good edible food is wasted. This equates to $165 billion being dumped in landfills. Imagine recovering 21% of this wasted food, we will be able to feed 8.8 million Californians who are presently experiencing food insecurity.

3. Environmental Sustainability
Food waste is the #1 contributor of Methane. It is also 3x deadlier than CO2 which contributes to climate changes that we are experiencing today. This is a low hanging food that we can tackle but we need you to partner with us.

Here is how you can help make an impact. Volunteer and/or donate financially to Peninsula Food Runners mission.

1. Volunteer with Peninsula Food Runners to divert good food to those in need and address all 3 issues. Many food runs can be accomplished in less than an hour. Sign up to volunteer at www.peninsulafoodrunners.org

2. Donate financially to Peninsula Food Runners to ensure we can continue our work to educate more donors, recover more food, and relay all these good edible food to those in need.

Last but not least, start a campaign at your workplace to ensure your kitchens are donating the company's surplus at the end of the day to community organizations. Refer them to Peninsula Food Runners or email us at support@peninsulafoodrunners.org as to whom we should contact at your kitchen.

Thank you so much for your consideration.

gratefully yours,

Maria Yap
Executive Director and Founder
Peninsula Food Runners Organization

Opportunity Details

Help the struggling families living in and around the Belltown are who have run out of options. The Puget Sound Labor Agency Food Bank serves an average of 1,200 individuals living in poverty and provided over 10,000 lbs. of nutritious food at its distribution days every Monday and Friday from 8AM to Noon and Wednesdays from 4PM to 7PM.

Volunteer Opportunities Include: Food Distributor, Donation Driver, Client Intake, Food Bank Greeter and Admin Assistant.

Be a part of this fun environment and you'll make a real impact on people struggling to raise families in the rising rents of downtown Seattle. By donating your time and resources, you give someone the ability to pay their monthly bills and still put food on the table while retaining their dignity as human beings. Be a positive difference in peoples' lives right here in Seattle where we believe in helping our neighbors in need of assistance!

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We are always in need of volunteers. We need help in Distribution, Pickup o Food drives, Sorting, Stocking shelves, packing boxes, several Special events every year. Group size can be as large as 20 people for outside projects and 6-10 for inside projects. We also have a community garden that we can always use help at.
Please call Lydya at 954 358 1481 for details.

Available Shifts

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

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Food Assistance, Inc. (FAI) is a volunteer delivery program to approved homebound, low-income seniors in Guilford County, NC. Delivery volunteer are a key part to part of how this happens each month. Volunteers can fill out and submit the app from the website and submit. http://www.foodassistancenc.com/applications/online_app_single.html
Guilford County was ranked as 1st in the nation for food insecurity and many of these are seniors. FAI has been addressing this since 2003!

Available Shifts

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