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Berkeley Men's Shelter evening meal

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ORGANIZATION: Dorothy Day House of Berkeley

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 24 people are interested

Serve the evening meal at the Men's Shelter, 1931 Center St. in downtown Berkeley, any day of the week. GROUPS ONLY -- individual volunteers can't be placed. Qualified homeless men stay in the Shelter for one or more months at a time. Groups (clubs, fellowships, fraternities, high school and up) of 5-7 people BRING and prepare food for the Center's 35-50 residents, then clean up. Food cost averages $100 per meal. Preparation usually begins at 5, dinner is served at 7, cleanup gets done by 8:30. Sign up for one or more night a month. Weekends are taken care of. We are looking for Tues/Wed/Thurs crews. Shorter-term crews are welcome in summer months when school groups are on vacation.

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About Dorothy Day House of Berkeley

Location:

1931 Center Street, PO Box 12701, Berkeley, CA 94712, US

Mission Statement

The Dorothy Day House of Berkeley is a non-denominational community of volunteers who are dedicated to feeding the hungry and providing dignified hospitality to the poor. The name refers to our origins in the Catholic Worker movement; we are not a residential community.

Description

Daily breakfast is served to residents of Berkeley's long-term Men's Shelter and at Trinity Methodist Church (near U.C. campus) to drop-in guests. We also coordinate dinner for the Men's Shelter every evening, and run a foul-weather shelter on rainy nights. We have served free breakfasts in the People's Park neighborhood for more than 20 years. During the struggle to keep the park open we worked out of an illegal trailer -- the People's Cafe -- there. Now the City of Berkeley subsidizes some of our services, though we are completely dependent on volunteer labor and have no office or paid administrative staff.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Homeless & Housing
Hunger
Community, Homeless & Housing, Hunger

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

1931 Center StreetPO Box 12701Berkeley, CA 94712

(37.87,-122.271)
 

DATE POSTED

August 13, 2013

SKILLS

GOOD FOR

  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

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