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3 people are interested
Food Rescue Delivery Driver Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Second Harvest Heartland
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3 people are interested
You can help reduce waste & feed our hungry neighbors! Second Harvest Heartland utilizes MealConnect to successfully match donations from caterers, restaurants, bakeries, corporate cafeterias, and special event centers to our network of agency partners. We are looking for volunteers to help continue our successful recovery of prepared food throughout the Twin Cities metro area and we need your help.
What You'll Do in this Role:
- Complete a program orientation and safe food transport training
- Monitor MealConnect text alerts to be aware of collection opportunities
- Collect food donations at designated donor locations and deliver to designated agency partner using the provided volunteer collection materials
- Check and log food temperatures at both collection and delivery points
- Communicate with Second Harvest staff to provide feedback on individual donations and overall program
Minimum Requirements:
- Access to own vehicle
- Valid driver’s license & motor vehicle insurance
- Ability to live and carry 30 - 50 pounds
- Smartphone with access to an internet browser and data available
- Comfortable assisting people of diverse economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds
- Willingness to complete mandatory training which includes program orientation, Civil Rights training, and safe food transport training
- Ability to meet Second Harvest Heartland’s guidelines for acceptable driving record: we will be conducting a motor vehicle record checks for all volunteers in this position. We reserve the right to decline working with a volunteer, or dismiss a current volunteer, based on the results of the motor vehicle record check
- Ability to meet Second Harvest Heartland guidelines for background check: we will be conducting criminal background checks for all volunteers in this position. We reserve the right to decline working with a volunteer, or dismiss a current volunteer, based on the results of the background check.
Time Requirements and Schedule:
- Total time requirement: Monthly commitment for the minimum of 1 year
- Days of the week: Flexible, however some weekday availability is required
- Time of day: Flexible, however some daytime availability is required
Next Steps:
To Apply: Visit the opportunity on our portal, https://volunteer.2harvest.org/. Click "Respond" and complete the required initiative questions. Someone from Second Harvest Heartland will contact you about next steps.
Questions: Contact Bri Johnson, bjohnson@2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland conducts background and motor vehicle record checks on all volunteers in this position. We reserve the right to decline a volunteer, or dismiss a current volunteer, based on the results of the background or motor vehicle record check.
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About Second Harvest Heartland
Location:
7101 Winnetka Ave No., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Second Harvest Heartland is to end hunger through community partnerships. At Second Harvest Heartland, our volunteer partners do more than enrich our work, they ground us to our mission of ending hunger together. We integrate volunteers into all aspects of creating and delivering solutions that will free our neighbors of hunger.
Description
More than a food bank, Second Harvest Heartland is a leading partner in the policies and programs that work to end hunger, like SNAP, school meals and senior nutrition programs, and we’re an innovator in the areas where food can be the solution, like FOODRx and Minnesota Central Kitchen.
Second Harvest Heartland is a member of Feeding America, a national network of more than 200 food banks serving every state in the United States. Membership means access to millions of pounds of surplus food and grocery donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country.
Working with our network of partners, volunteers and donors as well as people like you, our 90,000+ square feet of dry, refrigerator and freezer space is constantly accepting and distributing donations. Our fleet of trucks travels nearly half a million miles a year, picking up food donations and delivering them to local food shelves, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, senior community centers and children's after school programs. Each year we distributed more than 100 million meals to our partners in hunger-relief. Learn more at 2harvest.org.
Click here to visit our volunteer portal www.volunteer.2harvest.org and view all available opportunities.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
7101 Winnetka Ave NBrooklyn ParkBrooklyn Park, MN 55428
DATE POSTED
September 15, 2022
SKILLS
- Food Delivery / Distribution
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- At least 2 hours per month