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Food Sorting Volunteer- Mornings, Afternoons and Evenings Available!
ORGANIZATION: Feeding San Diego
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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29 people are interested
Volunteers help make our programs possible each week.
Food Sorting may include any of the following:
Produce Gleaning: Volunteers help to sort produce that comes in largely through the California Association of Food Banks or from local donors. This produce doesn’t pass the grocery store test where everything is the same size, shape, and color, but often looks like something you might find in your home garden. Volunteers help to sort out any produce that don’t meet our safety standards for distribution through programs, including our Mobile Pantry.
Reclamation: Volunteers help to sort food that has been pulled from grocery store shelves and is headed to the landfill even though 60% is still good to eat. Volunteers help to check printed expiration dates, with their extended best by date. Then they sort the food by type, box it up, and get it ready to go to the community.
Repack: We procure bulk product, like in 50 pound bags, to reduce costs and then repack the items into smaller, family friendly sized portions for our clients. We repack beans, rice, cereals, and more. We seal, label, box, and palletize each bag, and then send them out to the community through our partner agencies.
Label: Volunteers help to label blank cans called brites with nutrition information. These cans are donated by donors who overproduced and don’t want to spend the extra money to label product they aren’t going to sell. We label and box the product and then get it out to the community through partner agencies and programs.
Food Sorting projects are then complete after project cleanup, to help us maintain our high level of food safety standards throughout our Distribution Center.
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About Feeding San Diego
Location:
9455 Waples Street, Suite 135, San Diego, CA 92121, US
Mission Statement
We are committed to a culture of responsibility and dignity and to leading our local community in the fight against hunger by efficiently providing access to food and nutritious meals. Feeding San Diego builds local and national partnerships with purpose.
Description
FSD was established in 2007 to bring food to San Diegans at risk of hunger. We are the only Feeding America member food bank in San Diego County. Feeding America is the nation’s largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization. There are more than 200 Feeding America member food banks in the U.S., with access to 2 billion pounds of donated food annually; it is a strong group of food banks held to the strictest operational and food safety standards.
FSD is proud to serve the community. The food bank maintains extremely efficient operations and we pride ourselves on conscientious stewardship of resources. Our mission guides us in all of our activities and helps us make a lasting difference in the lives of as many hungry people and families as possible.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
9455 Waples Street, Suite 135San Diego, CA 92121
DATE POSTED
June 30, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 6
- Orientation or Training
- weekly 2 hour afternoon volunteer shift
- able to commit to a minimum of 3 months