- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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21 people are interested
Cook and serve dinner with love and compassion for 600 people
ORGANIZATION: Chicago Fun Volunteers
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
21 people are interested
To participate in this event, please RSVP on this link directly:
http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Fun-Volunteers/events/234377214/
Cook a dinner with love and compassion for 600 children and adults at the Coppin Community Center with Fight2Feed.
Two of our community partners and their events will be merging this month to help each other out. Fight2Feed.org has cooked and served over 12000 meals to the homeless and families in need in their previous missions, and is now looking to help support our local food pantry at the Coppin Community Center. You can join us to help cook a healthy dinner for 600 people, to be serve during their food pantry event at Coppin. No previous cooking skills required. You will be given instructions and work along side with experienced cooking volunteers.
Two shifts will be available, you can do one or both shifts. Time is flexible, you don't have to stay the whole time.
Shift 1: 10 am to 2:30 pm, First cooking phase. Prepare raw ingredients and have first batch food cooked and served in containers for first feeding to children of the boys and girls club.
Shift 2: 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Second cooking phase and clean up. We will be serving first batch of meals to children from the local Boys and Girls club. We will then continuing preparing and cooking additional soup pots for the regular food pantry clients, who will be coming in starting around 4 pm. We will help clean up the kitchen, wash the pots and utensils, sweep and mop the floor, to leave the place spotless, like we found it.
Location is near CTA Bus routes and 5 blocks from Red line Garfield/55th station. Free street and lot parking available.
Please post below what shift you will be working either First or Second shift, if you are coming and leaving on a different time than the shifts, list that as well. We will have some aprons available, but please bring your own apron if you have one, as well as a baseball cap or bandana to manage your hair.
About the organizations:
The Coppin Memorial A.M.E. Church and Coppin Community Center has been serving the the south side of Chicago for the last 95 years. It currently operates a small food pantry in the Washington Park neighborhood for neighbors in need every Monday night. You can sign up to volunteer any Monday to help with food unloading, sorting and distribution on our Chicago Fun Volunteers calendar. http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Fun-Volunteers/events/
Culinary Fight Club produces the only live monthly cooking competitions in Chicago, called "TasteBudChallenges." Recently selected as an "Official Qualifying Event" for the World Food Championships in Kissimmee, Florida" chefs of all levels come to compete for the "Golden Ticket," and win their spot in the highest stake "Food Sport" Competition in the world! Supporting CULINARY Fight Club events also means #PayingItForward! All ticket proceeds benefit @Fight2Feed, a Charitable Organization on a mission to "KO" hunger in Chicago! #DoSomething #FeedItForward
Fight2Feed combines donated restaurant resources with the mobility of food trucks to delivery food to where food is needed the most in our city. Both organizations are 100% volunteer run and supported.
For more info, please visit: www.culinaryfightclub.com and www.fight2feed.org
To participate in this event, please RSVP on this link directly:
http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Fun-Volunteers/events/234377214/
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About Chicago Fun Volunteers
Location:
Online Organization, Chicago, IL 60601, US
Mission Statement
To be a host of volunteer opportunities for all community members to post and share their events with other volunteers. To creat a fun and social atmosphere for volunteers while harnessing the power of social media and social networking to help, build, and strengthen our community together.
Description
Chicago Fun Volunteers is an online not-for-profit organization using social media to bring people and other charity organizations together. We believe you meet the most amazing people and make the best of friends while helping others through volunteering. We have calendar of volunteer events for every day of the year, and over 4000 volunteers seeking and creating new service opportunities to share with each other to help build, improve and strengthen our community.
Join our free Meetup group and help our large and active community of volunteers to do good while having fun. Our Calendar of events works on your schedule. You pick the event that fits the day and time and your interest.
Our Members keep tabs on opportunities all over the city and surrounding suburbs and share them with each other. Everybody is allow to post service events on the main calendar and share their passions and get support by fellow members.
We have volunteer events supporting all causes, including nature conservation and clean up, after school programs, tutoring for kids, animal wellfare and protection, spending time with seniors in nursing homes, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, refugee advocacy, food pantries, knitting for babies in hospitals, and much more. If you do not see your cause listed, then you can share and post something you want us to support, and we will come help.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
5627 S. Michigan AveChicago, IL 60637
DATE POSTED
September 24, 2016
SKILLS
- Cooking / Catering
- Hospitality
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- Time is flexible