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Do You Have 2-3 Hours to Make a Difference in San Diego? Become A Volunteer at San Diego Food Bank!
ORGANIZATION: San Diego Food Bank
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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187 people are interested
Volunteers make an impact each day in our mission to fight hunger. Volunteer opportunities take place Monday through Saturday, including mornings, afternoons and evening shifts.
Volunteers ages 11-15 can participate, but accompanied with a chaperone.
Warehouse volunteer various tasks may include any of the following:
Cleaning and packaging: Volunteers clean and package fresh produce to be distributed each day, serving over 400,000 individuals and families monthly. The San Diego Food Bank wants to provide clean and safe food products to the community.
Inspecting, sorting, packing, and labeling food donations: We receive food from our donors, community food drives, food suppliers, and supermarkets. Volunteers help by checking expiration dates and best buy dates, inspecting the food to ensure products follow our food safety standards, sorting the food by type, and packing the food for community distribution.
Assembling food packages for our programs:
Senior Programs: A majority of the seniors we serve live near the poverty level and struggle every month to put food on the table. The seniors we serve have worked all of their lives only to face hunger in retirement. Thanks to volunteers, the seniors we serve are able to live with dignity in their golden years. Volunteers help to assemble 30-pound boxes with nutritious foods for our seniors.
Food Assistance Program: Volunteers assemble food boxes to assistant low-income families throughout San Diego County. The majority of the families we serve have an adult in employment, but these working-poor families simply cannot make enough to put food on the table for their children.
Food 4 Kids Backpack Program: Volunteers help to assemble kids backpacks full of food for the weekend. We provide food to more than 1,600 elementary school children living in poverty in 11 school districts throughout the county. Children on the program live in poverty and receive free school meals during the week but have little or no food over the weekends. Children on the program receive a backpack full of food every Friday afternoon to see them through the weekend.
Various tasks are complete after project cleanup, to help maintain a high level of safety in our distribution center.
Please call or email today for more information, or follow the link to sign up today!
https://sdfb.volunteerhub.com/
Contact: John Bode: jbode@sandiegofoodbank.org 858-863-5125
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About San Diego Food Bank
Location:
9850 Distribution Ave, San Diego, CA 92121, US
Mission Statement
Established in 1977, Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank provides food to people in need and connects the people we serve to a range of health and human service providers. We advocate for the hungry and educate the public about hunger in our community.
Description
The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in San Diego County. Last year, the Food Bank distributed 22 million pounds of food, and the Food Bank serves, on average, 400,000 people per month in San Diego County.
The Food Bank receives food from the USDA, food manufacturers, food retailers, the agricultural sector, food drives, and through financial contributions that enable us to purchase protein-rich foods, fresh produce, and dry staple foods such as beans, oatmeal, and rice. We also benefit from the generosity of more than 28,000 volunteers annually that help to sort and distribute donated and purchased food products.
The Food Bank works to acquire, store, organize, and distribute food through a network of 330 nonprofit partner organizations that include food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless and residential shelters, youth programs, senior centers, and low-income daycare centers in communities throughout San Diego County. The Food Bank also distributes food directly to those in need at 183 distribution sites throughout the county.
The Food Bank’s core values are leadership, integrity, cooperation, respect, excellence, and service. All Food Bank employees, executives, and officers are guided by, and seek to strive every day to live by this value system. Our values exemplify the dedication and respect we hold for our organization, our mission, our community, and the people we serve.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
9850 Distribution AveSan Diego, CA 92121
DATE POSTED
July 26, 2018
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 11
- 2-hours
- Under 16-years old must volunteer with guardian