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Liberty Street Market (food pantry)- Holiday Shopping Attendant (7:45am to 12pm)
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The Liberty Street Market is the largest neighborhood food pantry among all Freestore Foodbank member agencies. It is a choice food pantry offering clients foods of their choice according to family composition, nutritional needs, cooking availability, and tastes. Client choices are augmented by fresh produce, shelf-stable food items, and personal hygiene products. Homeless clients receive special boxes with foods that can be consumed without heating.
The COVID pandemic has pushed us to reconsider how we distribute holiday food items to our customers at the Liberty Street Market. Instead of handing out pre-made boxes of holiday food favorites, we will offer these items in the market and shoppers can select what they need. They will also receive a turkey in addition to the protein offered that day. Holiday food items will become available to our customers beginning Monday, November 1st through Wednesday, December 22nd. This new initiative will allow customers to shop for both their normal groceries and holiday food favorites.
Volunteer Task:
- Cart Attendant (2 volunteers) - prep carts with shopping & plastic bags they give to the customer
- Check Out Assistants (2 volunteers) - assist with unloading groceries from carts then place on the scale to be weighed. Handing out turkeys to customers.
- Crowd Control (3 volunteers) - communicate when to hold the customer line
- Produce & Dairy Assistants (2 volunteers) - keeping dairy and produce stocked
- Stock/Reshop Assistants (4 volunteers) - keeping the shelves stocked with groceries
- Front Bay Attendants (15 volunteers) - loading groceries into customers vehicles
COVID-19 Volunteer Guidelines
Please be advised: Masks are required and we will still follow the CDC-recommended COVID guidelines.
- Hand Washing and/or Hand Sanitizer Stations are provided throughout our volunteer areas - Please wash your hands upon arrival. Hand washing should last at least 20 seconds under warm water.
- Eliminating Handshakes and Hugs - Sorry. Elbow bumps are welcomed!
- Social Distancing: Accommodations are in place to allow volunteers to perform their duties with reasonable social distancing.
- Providing Protective Gear - We have hand sanitizer located throughout our various facilities. We also have masks andgloves available for volunteers during their shifts. (If a volunteer has their own mask, please bring it, we will have masks/gloves as needed.) Please use proper disposal of masks/gloves at the end of each shift.
- Stay Healthy - If you are feeling under the weather we ask that you cancel your registration and come back and visit us when you feel better.
- All volunteers Must be registered before entering the building for a volunteer shift.
If you have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19 prior to 2 weeks of your volunteer event, you will not be allowed to volunteer.
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About Freestore Foodbank
Location:
112 E Liberty Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202, US
Mission Statement
Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community. To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect to support services and offer a pathway from crisis to stability.
Description
For the last 50 years, we've grown from one man's passion for helping his neighbors into one of the region's largest food banks.
We distribute over 10 million pounds of food annually in 20 counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana through a trusted network of over 400 local member agencies such as soup kitchens and shelters, food pantries, churches, daycare and senior centers, and many other community and social services organizations.
Unlike other food banks in the area, we operate a Client Services Center in Over-the-Rhine, which works to meet the needs of our community's most vulnerable citizens, including the homeless, the unemployed, the working poor, and families in crisis. By providing emergency food, we work to determine the root causes of poverty and food insecurity, and we are able to offer services aimed at creating self-reliance. When people come to us for food, we help them find the other things they may need -- a safe place to live, access to affordable healthcare, clothing or job skills and placement. For our work, food is not the end product, rather it is the beginning of a much larger conversation to help our community's citizens work toward self-reliance.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
112 E. Liberty St.Customer Connection CenterCincinnati, OH 45202
DATE POSTED
October 15, 2021
SKILLS
- Bilingual
- Multi-Tasking
- People Skills
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 14
- Orientation or Training
- Must be able to stay the entire shift
- Must be able to lift up to 20lbs, bend, stand, and walk