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Check Out Hunger: Adopt a Kroger Store Near You!
ORGANIZATION: Freestore Foodbank
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The Kroger Company is teaming up with the Freestore Foodbank this holiday season to check out hunger in our community. Customers are able to take part when they go to the check out counter to purchase their groceries. Customers simply pull a donation amount from the placards (coupon holders) at the cash registers for specific amounts and the cashier will scan the coupon and the donation amount is added to the grocery bill. 60 neighborhood Kroger stores in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana will host the Check-Out Hunger campaign.
Volunteers are needed to "adopt" a store and assist with ensuring placards and tear coupons are available to customers throughout the campaign. Volunteers are asked to visit their adopted store once or twice a week and replenish and/or replace placards and coupons as needed. This is a flexible volunteer activity and can be done on your own time. It’s a great way to get your family involved even with a full work or school schedule.
Age Restriction: Volunteers must be at least 10 years of age to volunteer for this activity.
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About Freestore Foodbank
Location:
112 E Liberty Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202, US
Mission Statement
Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community. To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect to support services and offer a pathway from crisis to stability.
Description
For the last 50 years, we've grown from one man's passion for helping his neighbors into one of the region's largest food banks.
We distribute over 10 million pounds of food annually in 20 counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana through a trusted network of over 400 local member agencies such as soup kitchens and shelters, food pantries, churches, daycare and senior centers, and many other community and social services organizations.
Unlike other food banks in the area, we operate a Client Services Center in Over-the-Rhine, which works to meet the needs of our community's most vulnerable citizens, including the homeless, the unemployed, the working poor, and families in crisis. By providing emergency food, we work to determine the root causes of poverty and food insecurity, and we are able to offer services aimed at creating self-reliance. When people come to us for food, we help them find the other things they may need -- a safe place to live, access to affordable healthcare, clothing or job skills and placement. For our work, food is not the end product, rather it is the beginning of a much larger conversation to help our community's citizens work toward self-reliance.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Local Kroger LocationsCincinnati, OH 45202
DATE POSTED
November 13, 2017
SKILLS
- Organization
- People Skills
- Networking
- Relationship Building
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 10
- Orientation or Training
- Once or twice per week
- Volunteers under the age of 16 years old must be accompanied by an adult