Produce Sorting & Preparing for Food Giveaways

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POSITION: Weekly Commitment to Saving Food & Giving it Away

Save the Food is a local Austin non-profit that focuses on providing free, healthy, fresh food to food-insecure people by sourcing unsellable food from our local grocery stores. Our team of 50+ dedicated volunteers do weekly pick-ups 7 days a week, rescuing 7,000 lbs of food /week. We distribute most of the food through a shopping method where our communities can have the luxury of choice, focusing on low income apartment communities, and our city's community centers.

These positions are the backbone of our organization. In order for us to give food-insecure people healthy, fresh food, it requires us to sort through the food thats inedible (we manage compost piles on site) and load up the food that they prefer. Then we take it to a designated giveaway location, manage the protein distribution, and make sure folks can leave with 15-25 lbs of food every time.

We are looking for folks who don't mind getting their hands dirty for a couple hours once a week and can also handle relations with the people we serve. These positions have the most gratification for hard work put in by our team. Getting to see how happy fresh food can make someone's day, is the ultimate joy.

To inquire about these positions, please email us at hello@savethefoodaustin.org.

Thank you!

Chelsea, COO