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3 MORE NEEDED My Neighborhood Mobile Grocery - Volunteers Needed at Kramer Homes

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ORGANIZATION: Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan

  • 3 people are interested

My Neighborhood Mobile Grocery (MNMG) is a weekly pop-up grocery that provides individuals and families who have low access to affordable, healthy foods with a new and innovative shopping option within their communities. Offering a wide, competitively priced product mix that balances client choice with nutritional products, educational programming, and incentives to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, MNMG extends the purchasing power of shoppers.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Kramer Homes Cooperative Housing is a 500-unit cooperative housing community of young working class families, low-income seniors, and single households. Volunteers are needed to help with marke set-up and tear-down, as well as serve in the following capacities while we are "open for business":

Greeters/Order Takers (4 needed) - Greet shoppers as they arrive. Distribute shopping lists and explain the ordering process. Manage the queueing line of shoppers as they review products on the display table and wait to place their order. Indoor setting.

Order Fillers (2-3 needed) - Work on pulling the customers’ orders from the Gleaners Mobile Grocery truck.

Order Baggers/Checkers (2-3 needed) - Double check orders and bag for customers.

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About Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan

Location:

2131 Beaufait, Detroit, MI 48207, US

Mission Statement

Gleaners Community Food Bank, with broad community support, fights hunger in southeastern Michigan.

Description

For more than 40 years, Gleaners Community Food Bank has been "feeding hungry people and nourishing our communities." Last year, Gleaners distributed 42 million pounds of emergency food to 499 partner soup kitchens, shelters and pantries in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, and Monroe counties.


Of every dollar donated, Gleaners uses 97 cents for food and food programs. One dollar provides three meals for a hungry neighbor.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Health & Medicine
Hunger
Community, Health & Medicine, Hunger

WHEN

Wed Sep 27, 2017
04:30 PM - 07:00 PM

WHERE

8830 E 10 Mile RdCenter Line, MI 48015

(42.47746,-83.0174)
 

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REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18
  • Please no court ordered volunteers

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