In-Person Volunteer Opportunity: Bike/Drive Brigade Volunteer Drivers
Make the Road New York
Bike/Drive Brigade Volunteer Drivers
(in-person / ongoing / Starting ASAP)
Description: We’re looking for volunteer bicyclists or drivers who can help deliver food from our pantry to clients in need. Our immigrant communities have been significantly impacted by COVID-19 and the Bike Brigade program allows our communities that are at high risk to receive groceries and survive in these difficult times.
- Contact free delivery
- Enhanced protocol for cleaning and sanitizing our Food Pantry
About Make the Road New York
Location:
9210 ROOSEVELT AVE, JACKSON HTS, NY 11372, US
Mission Statement
Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.
Description
Make the Road New York forges alliances between New York communities that face shared hardships and injustices. All of the communities in which we work are predominantly populated by poor and working class Latinos, immigrants and African Americans. MRNY ' s 10,000+ members come from over 25 different countries and have a wide range of experiences and backgrounds.
MRNY has centers in Bushwick, Brooklyn ; Jackson Heights, Queens ; Port Richmond, Staten Island ; and Brentwood, Long Island , a nd our membership also draws from the surrounding neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, Ridgewood, Woodside, Elmhurst, Corona, Central Islip, and Patchogue. Our advocacy and litigation work affect millions of other low-income and immigrant New Yorkers on the citywide level and increasingly at the state level.