Opportunity Details

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

SunWork Renewable Energy Projects is a nonprofit in California's San Francisco Bay Area that installs solar electricity systems on small-energy-footprint homes with the help of trained volunteers. SunWork also installs solar systems for small nonprofit organizations such as churches, preschools and social welfare organizations.

SunWork volunteers participate in an orientation session training them in the basics of solar, electricity, and construction. Afterwards, you are eligible to volunteer for solar installations, working together with SunWork's small staff, attaching racking, running conduit, hanging inverters, and mounting the solar panels that make a system tick.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

SunWork Renewable Energy Projects is a nonprofit in California's San Francisco Bay Area that installs solar electricity systems on small-energy-footprint homes with the help of trained volunteers. SunWork also installs solar systems for small nonprofit organizations such as churches, preschools and social welfare organizations.

SunWork volunteers participate in an orientation session training them in the basics of solar, electricity, and construction. Afterwards, you are eligible to volunteer for solar installations, typically on the weekends, working together with SunWork's small staff, attaching racking, running conduit, hanging inverters, and mounting the solar panels that make a system tick.

Training is online.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	30	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We are creating environmental education for classrooms, utilizing film and animation to educate kids on the impact that their lives have upon our environment. We will be combining the films with Project Based Learning opportunities that supplement the educational material found in the films. Project Based Learning ( PBL ) is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge.

We are looking for volunteers to help research successful PBL examples. The goal is to create a data base of success stories, models, or even failures. We will use this material to benchmark successful programs, gauge the impact of certain strategies, and integrate PBL in the manner that most effectively supplements our films.

To participate in this volunteer opportunity, please access our online survey at:

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/dYl7uPlC

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

For the past three years, RISE Now has brought people together to volunteer on the planning and building of imaginative playgrounds made of post consumer tires. To date, we have built 15 playgrounds, involving hundreds of volunteers from five different countries, repurposing over 2000 tires and impacting the lives of thousands of children and their communities.
In 2016 we are gearing up for our most ambitious year to date with 8 playgrounds projects lined up in rural Mayan communities in Chiapas, Mexico. With your help we will facilitate and support communities, schools and orphanages in all aspects of playground planning and construction, as well as complete a comprehensive safety evaluation and train local residents and staff in proper playground care and maintenance.

Join the team, apply today at www.rise-now.org

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Farm Discovery at Live Earth is seeking enthusiastic, friendly volunteers to help make our annual Pumpkin Patch and Apple Bash Harvest Festival a success on October 2th, 11:00am-3:00pm!

This community based event, located at the Live Earth farm in Watsonville, is a Saturday full of farm-based activities & programs for the whole family. The festival will feature live music & an assortment of local vendors including Penny Ice Cream, Hidden Fortress Coffee, Sausages & Kraut and more!

There will be a number of hands-on field to fork activities for the community that volunteers can assist with ranging from cob baking workshops to tractor rides. Volunteers are needed to help set up, clean up, & manage booth activities (face painting, pumpkin decorating, cider making, grilling sausages, selling gear, running a pie eating contest).

Volunteers will not only keep the festival running smoothly, but help local children and their families learn to take care of themselves, their communities, and their environment through local food networks.

Because the event is outdoors, we reccomend comfortable clothes, close toed shoes, hats, and sunblock. Bring water, and be ready to get dusty and have a lot of fun in the process!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General- Set up	10	n/a	n/a
Booths- face painting, games, grilling	20	n/a	n/a
Parking Attendants - 2-3 shifts, for 3 people each	9	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

You are an IT consulting Manager or a Project manager PMP in technology living in the Ottawa region. Are you looking to give back to your community by helping to guide a registered charity that is focused on mentoring at risk youth towards a possible high salaried career in technology? You will be joining current board members - in Montreal,Ottawa and toronto from telecommunications, law, community leader and university and youth education. send your expression of interest before Oct 15 to Bill at info@compucorps.org

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	3	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

On October 10th, The Jensie Gran Fondo will be taking place in Marin County. In order to make this wonderful day happen, we depend on the selfless and generous efforts of the volunteer network that supports us. With 100 miles of beautiful California roads and a spectacular expo at the end of the ride, we are looking for volunteers to help us on every range of the spectrum. As some perks of joining the crew for The Jensie Gran Fondo, we listed a few benefits for helping out. (Volunteers will be rewarded!)

We are expecting roughly 2,000 riders for The Jensie Gran Fondo this October. We are looking for enthusiastic and helpful people to assist us with making this event possible! Below are the different types of positions available to volunteers. The people that work these events and their willingness to help are the true backbone to what makes it all possible. We hope to see you out there with us for this wonderful weekend in Marin!

Friday, October 9th - time and place TBA
Pre-Event Check-In- We will need assistance checking riders in and providing necessary information for the following day.

Friday, October 9th - Stafford Lake
Pre-Event Venue Set-Up We will need assistance preparing the area around Stafford Lake for the next day.

Saturday, October 10th - Stafford Lake & Various Locations throughout Marin
Expo Assitance
Below are some of the tasks at the expo that we will need help with:

Event Registration
Parking Attendant (20 spots)
Bike Parking Attendant
Hydration Station (6 spots)
Traffic Control (6 spots)
Information Booth (3 spots)
Lunch/food service


Route Assistance

Corner Marshals- Stationed along the route making sure that riders make the turns and follow the route
Rest Stop Assistance- Helping prepare snacks and hydration at Rest Stops
Hydration Station Assistance- Refilling the water at select hydration stops

Venue break-down
Sunday, October 11th - Stafford Lake
We will need assistance breaking down the event and getting things packed up

SAG Support
Support and Gear (SAG) is preferably for people with a car and bicycle rack. You will be throughout the course assisting riders when needed.
Where would you prefer to be stationed?
These are for the people who would like to volunteer at the rest stops along the Fondo course. This may be easier for some depending on where they live and to what areas they are accessible to reaching. Exact times for when to be at each will be out soon!

Rest Stop: Fairfax
Rest Stop: Point Reyes
Rest Stop: Tomales

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

As a small non-profit organization responsible for the management of over 1100 acres of Nature Park & wetlands, offering environmental education and maintaining our research; we rely on the generosity of volunteers.
We offer a variety of ONGOING volunteer opportunities from trail maintenance, to special event help, park clean up days, assisting with facilities & building maintenance, and more specialized tasks within the Environmental Education & Research departments.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
As available	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Help us transform one of our farm fields into an elegant venue and host 150 guests for our annual farm dinner! This fundraiser event supports on-farm education programs for local youth throughout the year.
Friday set-up volunteers will help set up the event venue (tables, chairs, stage, etc.).
Saturday set-up volunteers on the earlier set-up shift will set tables and decorate; those on the later shift will continue set-up and staff the appetizer hour that kicks off the farm dinner.
Friday food prep volunteers will assist Chef Andrea Mollenauer in preparing for the dinner (washing and chopping vegetables, etc.).
Parking volunteers will assist guests to park in appropriate spaces and give them directions to the dinner venue.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Event Set-up and Decoration	4	n/a	n/a
Event Set-up and Appetizer Service	8	n/a	n/a
Event Site Set-up	4	n/a	n/a
Event Parking	2	n/a	n/a
Food Prep	8	n/a	n/a