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Picnic in the Park - Event Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
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The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is now recruiting volunteers aged 14 and up for our annual Picnic in the Park (PIP) event. PIP offers free, nutritious meals to children who receive free or reduced-priced lunches during the school year over the summer months and will run between June 8 and August 7 (June 15 and August 14 in Carpinteria).
Volunteers will help manage and support meal distributions by handing out lunches, conducting essential meal tracking, and ensuring the safety of our clients. They must commit to multiple shifts throughout the summer and undergo a brief criminal background check.
PIP shifts are approximately two hours long during lunchtime on weekdays. These shifts will entail standing, bending, doing light lifting, and engaging with members of our community. Volunteers are also expected to enforce social distancing and safety protocols.
We are also in need of Site Leads who will coordinate communication between volunteers, staff, and attendees, enforce all PIP rules, and assist with set-up, sign-in, and clean-up. Site leads must make an ongoing commitment beyond five shifts during the summer and attend a training orientation.
To Sign Up:
- Create an account on VolunteerHub [ https://foodbanksbc.volunteerhub.com/]
- Then send an email to your respective Foodbank team member with the subject "PIP Volunteer." Please indicate if you are interested in serving as a Site Lead in the body of your email, and make sure that you include your name as it appears on your VolunteerHub account.
- If you are located in North County and interested in this opportunity, please contact Kelli Padilla at kpadilla@foodbanksbc.org.
- If you are located in South County, please contact Lena Childers at lchilders@foodbanksbc.org.
- Once you have completed your background check, you will be able to sign up for an Orientation and for your preferred shifts on VolunteerHub.
- The orientation is only required for PIP Site Leads, but all volunteers are encouraged to attend.
More opportunities with Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
Location:
4554 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93110, US
Mission Statement
The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s mission is to end hunger and transform the health of Santa Barbara County through good nutrition.
Description
OUR APPROACH
The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is committed to taking a negative thing - hunger - and through our combined community efforts transforming it into a positive thing - health. This leap forward in health is achieved with three ingredients: food, education and empowerment. The challenges of Hunger, Nutrition and Obesity used to be separate areas dealt with by different approaches and by different agencies and groups. The Foodbank is now tackling all three of these problems at once - through a nationally recognized continuum of programs that provide cradle to graduation intervention in children’s lives.
This builds what we call their food literacy: their ability to look after themselves with food - to budget, shop cook and use food responsibly. If we can transform their relationship to food to being one of using it as a scarce and valuable resource to power their personal health, then that is going to create that tipping point that makes a huge transformation in the health of Santa Barbara County.
By supporting the Foodbank, you are also supporting the good work of
300 agencies and programs countywide.
CAUSE AREAS
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Santa Barbara CountySanta Maria, CA 93455
DATE POSTED
July 16, 2020
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REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training