Volunteer Opportunities
at the Food Bank

Sort and Repackage Donated Food and Other Grocery Items
All donated food is sorted and repackaged in our Product Recovery Center before it is distributed to our 440 Partner Programs. This is a great activity for all ages (as young as eight year of age when accompanied by an adult).

Our Product Recovery Center hours are:
Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Monday - Thursday, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday mornings, 9a.m. - noon

Help in the Culinary Center
If you've ever wanted to work in a commercial kitchen with a professional chef, here's your chance. Tasks range from ingredient preparation, to cleaning and paring fresh produce, to cooking, to preparing gift baskets to be sold as fund raisers. You must be 16 years or older to work in the Culinary Center.

Assist with Special Events Throughout the Year
By participating in Food Bank special events you can have fun and help out at events such as Empty Bowls in April, National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive in May, National Hunger Awareness Day in June, and many more.

Agency Visits
See first-hand where our donated food goes by visiting our Partner Programs or put your leadership skills to work and serve as a Coordinator.

Help with Administrative Tasks
Join fellow volunteers the third Thursday of every month and lend a hand with a bulk mailing project.

Pick produce at various farms
Spend a few hours during the growing season picking fresh, nutritious produce for those who can't afford them.

Provide Clerical Assistance
We always need help with general administrative tasks and other special projects.

Work on our landscape
If you love working in the dirt, then why not volunteer to help us maintain our landscape? Tasks include trimming shrubs and grasses in the spring, tending and harvesting our herb garden and periodic weeding, mulching and pulling weeds during the summer.

Serve on a Committee
Put your creativity, vision and enthusiasm to work by helping develop programs from the ground up in the following areas: Volunteer Committee and Children's Programs.

Help fill Food 4 Kids backpacks
This program helps ensure that school-age children don't go hungry over the weekends when free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches aren't available. Adult groups of 10-15 are ideal to pack food for the backpacks.

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