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WSCAH Mobile Food Pantry Volunteers Needed

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ORGANIZATION: West Side Campaign Against Hunger

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Program Description:

West Side Campaign Against Hunger pioneered the customer-choice model and combines emergency food relief services to ensure pantry clients' needs are met. Our Mobile Pantry integrates both these services through partnerships, making sure clients are connected to resources in the communities we are serving, while we deliver pantry services. The Mobile Pantry is a specially designed truck to ensure a customer-choice model, staffed with a Pantry Manager/Driver and Community Resource Counselor.


Roles & Responsibilities:

  1. Assist MP staff with setup at Partner sites (stocking shelves, setting up tables, organizing equipment)
  2. Check-in customers
  3. Customer service support (assist customers shopping, crowd control, directing people)
  4. Restocking MP Pantry through service delivery
  5. Assist MP staff with breakdown of pantry (clean shelves, wipe bins, collect garbage, remove any signs, break down any technology, cooking demo, or other activities)

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About West Side Campaign Against Hunger

Location:

263 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024, US

Mission Statement

West Side Campaign Against Hunger is a community-based emergency food program and social service agency located in New York CIty. Through a customer-cooperative, supermarket style food pantry, WSCAH alleviates hunger and creates a culture that promotes self reliance and works for change. WSCAH changes our perception of hungry people by working in partnership with them, providing food with dignity, and empowering customers to find solutions.

Description

West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH)-one of the largest and most successful food pantries in New York City-provides emergency food assistance and supportive services for individuals and families facing food insecurity. We offer fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains, protein, and dairy in our supermarket-style pantry, where customers can choose the food that is best for them, thus serving our community with dignity. With a robust social service department, we connect customers to benefits and other community resources, and we offer a free, on-site job training program called Culinary Pathways. Our newest program and latest innovation to addressing hunger is our Mobile Market, which brings fresh, healthy food and support services directly to New York City neighborhoods with high rates of poverty and food insecurity.

Last year, we distributed over 1.5 million pounds of food-one-third of which was fresh fruits and vegetables. This amounted to 1.3 million meals for more than 11,300 unduplicated families. We also enrolled 586 families in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), 357 in health insurance, and helped 196 people find jobs. We graduated 43 individuals from our Culinary Pathways Program-a 75% graduation rate-and 81% of graduates either continued their education or obtained employment.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Hunger
Community, Hunger

WHEN

Thu Feb 22, 2018
09:00 AM - 01:00 PM

WHERE

1130 Grand ConcourseBronx, NY 10456

(40.83264,-73.91877)
 

DATE POSTED

January 26, 2018

SKILLS

  • Food Delivery / Distribution

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18

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