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36 people are interested
Fight Hunger as a Saturday Food Delivery Volunteer (Route 1)
ORGANIZATION: Top Box Foods
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36 people are interested
Come volunteer this month with a hunger relief non-profit serving the city of Chicago! We are seeking volunteers to help out on our food deliveries, opportunities can last anywhere from 2-5 hours. Deliveries take place at partner locations in the neighborhoods we serve and are a great time to celebrate community!
Top Box Foods is a non-profit organization with a simple purpose: to offer fresh, healthy, high-quality foods at affordable prices particularly to folks living in Chicago's underserved neighborhoods. We partner with local churches, community organizations, public housing, senior centers, and Chicago Public Schools to offer their constituents healthy food at an average of 40% off the retail price. By working to eliminate food deserts in Chicago, Top Box Foods aims to address widespread societal issues such as hunger, malnutrition, and related health problems that are driven by inadequate access to quality, nutritional food options.
Activity: Volunteers will meet at the delivery location and assist in either handing off boxes of foods to customers or with cashiering.
Route 1:
Alderwoman Garza - 10th Ward/Glass Designers, Inc.
Time: 9am-10:15am
Location: 10123 S. Torrence Ave. Chicago, IL
(Second delivery at St. Alibe's Church)
Time: 11am-12pm9015
Location: S. Harper Ave. Chicago, IL
(Third delivery at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church)
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: 2110 E. 72nd St. Chicago, IL
More opportunities with Top Box Foods
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About Top Box Foods
Location:
222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 202A, Chicago, IL 60654, US
Mission Statement
Top Box Foods is a community nonprofit with a simple purpose: to build equitable access to fresh, healthy, high-quality foods for all. We partner with local churches, community organizations, public housing, senior centers, and Chicago Public Schools who serve constituents in Chicago's underserved communities to offer healthy food at an average of 40% off the retail price.
Description
We're a community nonprofit that helps create equitable access to quality, healthy groceries for all. We were founded on an innovative model of selling fresh produce and nutritious proteins at prices below traditional retail through a network of community partners from religious centers to housing organizations to healthcare providers. Our partners help their community eat well and save money, and 5% of partner referral sales are donated directly back to that community organization.
In response to the unprecedented rates of food insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we transformed our model to a no-fee delivery program of nutritious and affordable foods right to the doors of households all over the Chicagoland city and suburbs - one of only three grocery delivery options available to recipients of SNAP. Then, we created our Food Share model to allow us to use our expertise and resources to partner with organizations looking to provide food support for their communities through both home deliveries and community food distributions. Our volunteer-powered contactless home grocery deliveries directly address the widespread societal issues of hunger, malnutrition and related health problems, driven by inadequate access to quality, nutritional food options, otherwise known as food deserts and food swamps. In 2020, we served 91,620 households. The need is still great, and we need your help. Sign up to volunteer with Top Box Foods today!
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
10123 S Torrance AveChicago, IL 60617
DATE POSTED
July 23, 2018
SKILLS
- Food Delivery / Distribution
- Community Outreach
- Customer Service
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- Second Saturday of every month