Team Leaders Wanted - Farmers Market Food Rescue

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Be a Hunger Hero, and take action in your community today! Join Food Forward to lead a small team of volunteers to collect food for the hungry at the Farmers Market to be distributed on-site to local hunger relif agencies.

About our program:
Farmers Market Recovery collects fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste from local farmers and donates it to local hunger-relief agencies and social impact centers within 7 miles of the market.

We do it in two steps:
1.Distribute boxes to interested farmers to fill with any unsold produce they wish to donate
2. Collect donations at the close of market, weigh them, and distribute to local hunger-relief agencies and social impact centers on-site at the market

How can you get involved?
Every market will have a rotating group of Glean Team volunteers to collect donations. Among the team will be a designated Glean Team Lead, who carries a few additional responsibilities.

Glean Team Lead:
Glean Team Leads are volunteer Food Forward representatives who lead their chosen market's Farmer’s Market Recovery team.
Glean Team Leads are asked to be available to lead at least twice a month. We will always do our best to accommodate your needs if any assigned dates conflict with your schedule for a particular month.
All leads should have a smart phone to take pictures of donation information and vendor spotlights to share on social media.
Duties:
Greet and train new and experienced volunteers, prepare equipment, produce boxes etc.
Acts as the point person for questions (from market staff, vendors, or Receiving Agencies)
Leads donation weighing and sorting, and Receiving Agency distribution (need to be able to lift at least 40lbs.)
Ensures photos are taken & vendors featured for Social Media Sharing; emails the photo(s) and copy to Food Forward office
Photographs the day’s Weight Distribution Worksheets and sends to Food Forward office
Fills out Market Recap form each week to collect info for Food Forward office

If this sounds like you, then please join us for this special training day! We'll show you the ropes and get you started on a wonderful journey of gleaning!