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ORGANIZATION: Hollywood Food Coalition

The Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition (www.gwhfc.org), established in 1987, serves a hot meal to anyone in need seven days a week in Hollywood. We are always looking for volunteer kitchen staff to help our cooks, and volunteers to help serve meals. We hope those responding are committed to our cause. This is a volunteer driven organization, and we would love for you to join us in preparing and/or serving the nightly meals. We welcome all levels of volunteering, and hope that many of you will become regulars. Men and woman recently retired who want to stay active should consider this a great opportunity to help hungry people in need. Groups to work in the kitchen are also welcome.

The meal is served from 6:15pm to about 7:30pm daily. You decide when you can come and how long you can stay!

When you're ready, please sign up for your first shift online: go to www.gwhfc.org and click on Volunteer.

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About Hollywood Food Coalition

Location:

5939 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028, US

Mission Statement

The mission of Hollywood Food Coalition is to feed and serve the immediate needs of the hungry every night of the year so they can build better lives. Our vision is a city where everyone has food, community, and support. For 33 years, we have served a hot, nutritious dinner every night of the year to homeless and food insecure individuals. All our food is donated, and we share thousands of pounds of excess food with partner social service organizations all across the city.

Description

We serve upwards of 300+ people dinner every night of the year. Have done for over 30 years. No one is turned away. We get donated food, picked up by volunteer and staff drivers, and because of the Covid-19 outbreak have had to change our model from sit-down dinners indoors to handing out bags of food in "to-go," containers. We also distribute any excess food to other organizations that have no way to access donated food. We PREP the food (main course, (vegan and non) green salads, fruit salads, desserts, soups, drinks, and extra "later on" food...most of our guests are homeless). Then we SERVE the food. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO PREP THE FOOD AND SERVE THE FOOD. We provide masks, gloves (changed often), disposable aprons, a brief orientation when you arrive. We sanitize our environment every hour. We are wholly aware for the need of work-place safety so if any volunteer doesn't feel well, we ask them to stay home and come back when they are 100%. We are the only nightly dinner freely served in Hollywood and our guest counts have surged due to the the shutdown of many food stores, restaurants and bars and farmer's markets. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP US. We only need 6 to 10 per shift.

CAUSE AREAS

Health & Medicine
Homeless & Housing
Hunger
Health & Medicine, Homeless & Housing, Hunger

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

5939 Hollywood Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90028

DATE POSTED

February 2, 2017

SKILLS

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

N/A

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