Food Pantry Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: FOOD CONNECT COLORADO
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Shopper Assistant: Guide people while they shop in the free food market. Explain limits, physically assist seniors and the disabled. Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.
Stock/Load: Monitor inventory and stock market as needed. Assist shoppers with packing groceries and loading their car. Must be able to bend, reach, and lift up to 20 pounds. Please wear closed-toe shoes.
10 Shifts
- Thu Mar 20, 2025 - 09:45 AM to 02:00 PM MST - Spots available: 4
- Thu Mar 20, 2025 - 01:45 PM to 06:00 PM MST - Spots available: 2
- Thu Mar 27, 2025 - 09:45 AM to 02:00 PM MST - Spots available: 4
- Thu Mar 27, 2025 - 01:45 PM to 06:00 PM MST - Spots available: 3
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 - 09:45 AM to 02:00 PM MST - Spots available: 4
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 - 01:45 PM to 06:00 PM MST - Spots available: 3
- Thu Apr 10, 2025 - 09:45 AM to 02:00 PM MST - Spots available: 4
- Thu Apr 10, 2025 - 01:45 PM to 06:00 PM MST - Spots available: 3
- Thu Apr 17, 2025 - 09:45 AM to 02:00 PM MST - Spots available: 4
- Thu Apr 17, 2025 - 01:45 PM to 06:00 PM MST - Spots available: 3
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About FOOD CONNECT COLORADO
Location:
12455 E Mississippi Ave, #101, AURORA, CO 80012, US
Mission Statement
Reducing food waste by sharing reclaimed food with people in need in our local community.
Description
FCC began in 2020.The original plan was to open a client-choice food market, where shoppers choose the foods they want and will eat. Then COVID happened. Everyone went to the drive-up model and that is how we started. From November 2020 to May 2021, we operated a drive-up food giveaway at Del Mar Park in Aurora every Thursday afternoon, serving 144 households a day.
We opened our free food market in July 2021 on Airport Blvd, operating every Thursday from 10 am-6 pm. A rent increase made it impossible to stay at that location, and we had to close in April 2022. After a search of almost a year, we found a new location with CrossWind Hope and Restoration Center, a nondenominational church in Aurora. We reopened April 2023.
Unlike other food pantries, whose main mission is feeding the food-insecure, Food Connect Colorado has a dual mission. We not only seek to feed the food-insecure, we want to do it with food that would otherwise be wasted. There is plenty of free food available; it just needs to be picked up and transported to the people who need it. We pick up food from Food Bank of the Rockies, Volunteers of America's City Harvest, Target, King Soopers, and the Denver Rescue Mission.
CAUSE AREAS
Community,
Environment,
Hunger
WHEN
Thu Feb 27, 2025 - Thu Apr 24, 2025
09:45 AM - 06:00 PM
This opportunity has 10 shifts
WHERE
12455 East Mississippi Avenue#101Aurora, CO 80012
(39.69807 ,-104.84423 )
DATE POSTED
February 22, 2025
SKILLS
- Food Delivery / Distribution
- People Skills
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- This is a Done in a Day opportunity and there is no prior training or ongoing commitment needed.
- Must be at least 15
- 4 hour shifts Thursdays
- Bilingual Spanish/English speakers needed.