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1 person is interested
CSA Delivery Manager Internship Opportunity
ORGANIZATION: Benevolence Farm
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1 person is interested
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Delivery Manager Internship Opportunity
Benevolence Farm is seeking one committed volunteer who can transport and distribute community supported agriculture (CSA) boxes early on Monday afternoons from Benevolence Farm to potential drop-off locations in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Durham for a 10-week fall session, September-November. This is Benevolence Farm’s first year of substantial production and seasonal CSA. The CSA Delivery Manager(s)will be instrumental in building the foundations of our customer base.
Responsibilities
Loading, transporting and unloading boxes to a variety of central locations in Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Durham.
Committing approximately 3 hours each Monday afternoon to CSA delivery for 10 weeks.
Taking care to keep boxes in shade or air-conditioned drop-off sites as well as organized by member name.
Qualifications
Ability to lift 25 lbs.
Valid driver’s license and reliable personal vehicle for loading and delivering boxes.
Compensation
Benevolence Farm offers a free half share ($150 total value, or $15 worth of produce each week) for a 10-week commitment.
How to apply:
Please send a resume (pdf) and a paragraph demonstrating your interest and why you would be a good candidate by August 22 to volunteer@benevolencefarm.org. Questions? Email matt@benevolencefarm.org.
More opportunities with Benevolence Farm
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Benevolence Farm
Location:
4265 Thompson Mill Rd, United States, Graham, NC 27253, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Benevolence Farm is to provide an opportunity for women leaving prison to live and work on a farm where they grow food, nourish self, and foster community.
Description
We will provide a 6- to 24-month holistic, transitional living program based on a working farm for up to 12 women leaving North Carolina prisons. Residents will be partially self-supporting through growing their own food, their labor contribution to the farm, and the sale of harvests through local farmers markets, a Community Supported Agriculture program, and sales to restaurants and institutions. We will provide a portion of our harvest to low-income communities through partnerships with food banks and churches.
The need for Benevolence Farm exists because approximately 3,000 women are released from NC prisons each year. Benevolence Farm will offer safe, stable housing, employment that is meaningful and fulfilling, opportunities to grow skills - life and career, for up to two years. Because residents will be contributing to the operations of the farm, essentially paying part of their own expenses through their labor - they secure their involvement with the program and have the time and space, figuratively and literally, to make real, lasting changes.
Benevolence Farm draws upon a number of best practices with the results being good for women participants and their families, the greater community, the communities to which the women return, the farmland, the economy, and the earth.
Programming will include: entrepreneurship and small business skills; career building; financial health; family reunification; agriculture, horticulture and permaculture; food preparation and presentation; value-added production; nutrition; addiction recovery support; diverse food traditions; and community building.
Benevolence Farm's vision is to create a more equitable, just, and nurturing world for women and communities they transform. We are creating the program itself to be partially self-supporting through the production and sale of sustainably grown produce and products, thereby ensuring that the program continues to serve as many women as possible. Benevolence Farm is unique in combining a sustainable environment with a holistic social service mission thereby creating a mutually beneficial relationship enabling the healing of people with and through the healing of the earth.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
4265 Thompson Mill RoadGraham, NC 27253
DATE POSTED
July 15, 2016
SKILLS
- Retail / Sales
- Food Delivery / Distribution
- Community Outreach
- Delivery
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Aprox 3 hours each Monday afternoon for 10 wks
- Ability to lift 25 lbs.