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Hunger Awareness Day Volunteer at California Fresh Market in Pismo Beach
ORGANIZATION: Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo
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Please sign-up for volunteer opportunities by visiting our website: http://www.slofoodbank.org/events/hunger-awareness-day
Hunger Awareness Day is the Food Bank’s largest fundraising event of the year. Since 2006, this campaign has raised over $1 Million. With your partnership we hope to make our 11th annual Hunger Awareness Day on Friday, June 2nd the most successful to date. This year, the Food Bank aims to raise $110,000 to provide nutritious food to 1 in 6 of our neighbors who face hunger. All proceeds stay locally in SLO County!
You can help the food Bank reach their fundraising goal by signing up for a volunteer shift below. Volunteers are needed to help solicit donations and multiple fundraising sites across SLO County. For a full list of sites needing volunteers, please visit our website at: http://www.slofoodbank.org/volunteer.php
Due to safety, all volunteers must be 16 years of age or older or if under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a decision making adult.
All individuals must have a volunteer application on file before their volunteer shift: Volunteer Application PDF http://www.slofoodbank.org/uploads/Volunteer%20Application_General%20MASTER0.pdf (You may bring email your application to volunteer@slofoodbank.org or drop it off at our office located at 1180 Kendall Rd, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401)
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About Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo
Location:
1180 Kendall Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, US
Mission Statement
Mission Statement: The mission of the Food Bank Coalition is to work with a network of community partners to alleviate hunger in San Luis Obispo County and build a healthier community.
Description
Founded in 1989 the Food Bank Coalition distributed 400,000 pounds of food annually through 20 non-profit agency partners. Today, about 6 million pounds of food pass in and out of our doors each year, half of which is fresh produce. We work hand in hand with more than 200 non-profit agencies including groups like homeless shelters, food pantries and senior centers and more. We also have direct distribution programs: Cal Fresh/Food Stamps, Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP), Food for Children, Harvest Bag, Healthy Food for Local Families, Senior Brown Bag and Summer Feeding Service Program (SFSP).
Today, we are fortunate to have two warehouses to cover San Luis Obispo county, our main warehouse is in Paso Robles and our second location in Oceano. Together these two warehouses give us 22,000 square feet of storage space. We keep our overhead less than 6%, which allows us to turn $1 into $10 worth of food. We are able to do this because of our hard working staff, knowledgeable board, and large volunteer core. Our network of volunteers number more than 600 strong. They are the people who enable us to get the food from our distribution sites into the hands of SLO County residents in need.
We can think of no better place to operate a Food Bank than right here in San Luis Obispo County. We are very proud to be part of life here on the Central Coast, and we work hard at our mission to see that no one in SLO County goes hungry.
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555 5 Cities DrPismo Beach, CA 93449
DATE POSTED
May 22, 2017
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REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- 2 hours