Food Preservation Internship

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ORGANIZATION: Goodman Community Center

Help preserve nature’s bounty as a food preservation intern at the Goodman Community Center. As an intern, you’ll help lead volunteers to preserve fresh local produce for use year round by our food pantry, older adult, and childcare program participants. This is an unpaid internship.

Qualifications/Requirements:

  • Must be 18 years or older
  • Intern application, orientation, and background check are required.
  • Ability to squat, bend, twist, lift (up to 30 pounds), or stand for long periods.
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability to work on self-directed projects.
  • Must be able to work well with others, and lead volunteers in completing food preservation tasks.
  • Previous food preservation experience preferred, but not required.

Time Commitment:

  • Mondays and Tuesdays, 4:00-7:00 pm. Additional weekend hours also possible.
  • Program runs June 13 th through September 30 th.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Preserve fresh local produce by canning, dehydrating, freezing, and fermenting.
  • Maintain proper levels of safety in the kitchen. Accurately follow directions and recipes to ensure finished products meet food safety guidelines.
  • Work effectively with volunteers and staff. Provide supervision and leadership to volunteers.
  • Keep accurate records in food preservation database.
  • Additional duties as assigned.
  • Interns with daytime availability will also have the option of leading teams of high school students enrolled in our Seed to Table innovation campus in preserving food.

Benefits:

  • Receive training in food preservation techniques from a Master Preserver.
  • Gain experience while working in a brand new, commercial grade, preservation kitchen.
  • Build leadership skills and gain experience working in a respected non-profit organization.

To apply, send resume and cover letter to Kate Katzban-Beren at kate@goodmancenter.org.

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About Goodman Community Center

Location:

149 Waubesa St, Madison, WI 53704, US

Mission Statement

Our Mission: The Goodman Community Center strengthens lives and secure futures. Our Vision: A community that’s thriving because everyone is valued and has the resources they need to be successful. Our Values: GCC is committed to creating and maintaining a community that respects and values diverse life experiences. Everyone deserves respect and acceptance without bias. We engage the perspectives and voices of our community and ensure they are reflected in our culture.

Description

The Goodman Community Center is not your average community center. As I get to talking with people about Goodman, they inevitably end up surprised. They’re surprised by how many programs and resources we offer, how beautiful our facilities are, or how many people we serve. Every year more than 30,000 people use the Center - some who come to one event, others who are very familiar faces here.

Thanks to our generous community, we just built and moved into a second beautiful facility across the street, the Brassworks building. We’re now reconfiguring and refreshing the Center’s first home on Waubesa Street, the Ironworks building. During this past ten years, we’ve nearly doubled in size.

Our staff are committed to learning and continually improving, too. That’s why each program uses a variety of tools to measure impacts for both the program overall, and for each individual participant. We use that data to constantly fine-tune what we do - and how we do it.

We’re glad Goodman is one of many organizations in the Madison area who are pouring themselves into making our community great - for us all. We hope you’ll join us. Because we know that every good thing that happens here is made possible by people like you.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Hunger
Community, Hunger

WHEN

Mon Jun 13, 2016 - Fri Sep 30, 2016
04:00 PM - 07:00 PM

WHERE

149 Waubesa StMadison, WI 53704

(43.09702,-89.34369)
 

DATE POSTED

May 4, 2016

SKILLS

  • Problem Solving
  • People Skills
  • Cooking / Catering

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • Background Check
  • Orientation or Training

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