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Help Feed Hungry Families at Lakes Area Nourish Food Bank

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ORGANIZATION: Nourish Pierce County

Nourish PC

Help feed your neighbors in need as a volunteer with us! As a food bank volunteer, you directly contribute to our mission of providing nutritious food to people in need with compassion, dignity, and respect. Volunteering with Nourish Pierce County is a great way to meet new people, serve an immediate need in the community, and have some fun!

Duties include, but are not limited to:

  • Greet and welcome food bank guests
  • Help check guests in
  • Help load groceries in clients cars
  • Within the food bank, help move boxes of food around and stage for distribution
  • Sort and bag fresh produce
  • Pack non-perishable grocery boxes
  • Assist with food distribution and replenish food bins
  • Clean food bank and assist with garbage disposal
  • Interact with all volunteers, staff and clients with compassion, dignity, and respect

Skills Necessary:

  • Must be physically fit and able to lift at least 20 pounds repeatedly throughout shifts
  • Ability to work on your feet for several hours
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Comfortable in a busy environment
  • Courtesy and helpfulness are expected
  • Closed toe shoes and shirts with sleeves are required
  • Basic computer skills (sign up for volunteer shifts online, assist with client check-in, etc)
  • Good customer service skills and the ability to work in a team are required

Getting started is easy and you can be volunteering in as little as two days after applying!

  1. Sign up online at https://volunteer.nourish.org
  2. We review your application and conduct a WA State Patrol background check and will call and/or email you with orientation registration information by the end of the next business day following your application
  3. Register for and attend a 1 hour online or in person orientation
  4. Once you've attended the orientation, you can sign up for shifts and volunteer

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About Nourish Pierce County

Location:

1702 S 72nd St, Ste E, Tacoma, WA 98408, US

Mission Statement

To provide nutritious food and support services to people in need with compassion, dignity and respect.

Description

Nourish Pierce County (formerly FISH Food Banks) is about people.

Volunteers, clients, donors, supporters, neighbors, seniors, children, the working poor, loving families.

Nourish Pierce County is about Community.

The neighborhoods we serve, creating connections within each food bank, a supportive network, the village of volunteers it takes to accomplish monthly food distribution to nearly 50,000 people.

Nourish Pierce County is about Stories.

Transforming lives, supporting each other, clients giving back to the organization that supports them in hard times, the joy on a child’s face when she receives a cake and stuffed animal to make her birthday special, hardships and tears, joy and accomplishments.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Crisis Support
Hunger
Community, Crisis Support, Hunger

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

Lakes Area Nourish Food Bankat First United Methodist Church at Lakewood6900 Steilacoom Blvd.Lakewood, WA 98499

(47.1617,-122.50198)
 

SKILLS

  • Customer Service
  • People Skills
  • Food Delivery / Distribution

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 17
  • Orientation or Training

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