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Olympia, WA 98516
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact on your community? At the Thurston County Food Bank, our mission is to eliminate hunger within our community, in the spirit of neighbor helping neighbor. We currently provide groceries to about 6,000 families a month throughout Thurston County! Getting all of the food off our shelves and onto the dinner table requires a tremendous amount of labor. That’s where our incredible network of dedicated volunteers comes in. We are always looking for more volunteers to help us receive, process, and distribute food to the hundreds of households we support during our service days. Located at 7027 Martin Way E. Olympia, WA 98516, the Thurston County Food Bank’s Lacey Food Pantry hosts weekly food distribution days every Tuesday and Thursday. Each service day has two different, 3-hour shifts: 9am - 12:30pm & 12pm - 3pm. choose which time and date works best for you! We also have an evening shopping shift for our clients once a month (2 nd Wednesday of each month) where volunteers are needed from 3pm - 6:30pm. Our volunteers: Set up a welcoming, shopping-like experience for our clients Process and sort produce, bread, and other foodstuffs Staff stations for food distribution for our clients Clean and organize our working space Please begin your journey into volunteering excellence by applying to volunteer! You can do so by clicking this link and choosing "Apply Now": https://thurston-county-food-bank.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/ Please be mindful that anyone under the age of 18 must have an adult guardian sign the application where it asks for the signature. After you fill out your application , you may visit the same link to sign up for shifts! If you have further questions, please feel free to contact Aryn at lcscvolunteers@thurstoncountyfoodbank.org or via phone 360-352-8597 Extension 252.
Date Posted: 2024-02-15
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Flexible Schedule
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Olympia, WA 98501
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact on your community? At the Thurston County Food Bank, our mission is to eliminate hunger within our community, in the spirit of neighbor helping neighbor. We currently provide groceries to about 6,000 families a month throughout Thurston County! Getting all of the food off our shelves and onto the dinner table requires a tremendous amount of labor. That’s where our incredible network of dedicated volunteers comes in! We are always looking for more volunteers to help us receive, process, and distribute food to the hundreds of households we support on every day of service. Located at 220 Thurston Ave NE, in the heart of Downtown Olympia, the Thurston County Food Bank’s Olympia Pantry hosts three weekly food distribution days every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At our Olympia Food Pantry volunteers: Set up a welcoming, shopping-like experience for our clients Process and sort produce, bread, and other foodstuffs Staff tables for food distribution for our clients Clean and organize our working space To begin volunteering, please fill out an application online: https://thurston-county-food-bank.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/ . At the top of the page click "Apply now". There you can fill out a volunteer application. After you fill out your application, you may visit the same link to sign up for shifts which come twice a day, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 7:45am-12pm and 11:45am-4pm. If you have further questions, please contact our volunteer coordinators at volunteers@tcfb.org or via phone at 360-352-8597 Extension 207.
Date Posted: 2024-02-15
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Flexible Schedule
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Tumwater, WA 98512
Do you have a burgeoning passion to help others or is it fully fledged? At The Thurston County Food Bank’s Warehouse and Distribution Center we strive to provide volunteer opportunities for all those who are itching to help others. Do you enjoy working as a team to accomplish large tasks or a more meditative solitude? Do you like being active lifting moderately heavy boxes, or would you prefer to sit down? Then you are cordially invited to join our organization as a volunteer at The Thurston County Food Bank's Warehouse and Distribution Center. Located at 2260 Mottman Road, near South Puget Sound Community College, The Thurston County Food Bank’s Warehouse and Distribution Center acts as a behind-the-scenes support facility our 2 local Food Pantries, 15 mobile food banks, 20 Satellite locations, as well as many more partners throughout the region. We operate a home delivery program, provide food for children to consume on the weekend, and offer storage support to our 3 Kiwanis gardens. At our Warehouse and Distribution Center volunteer: Sort the food generously donated by our community Distribute food to our food pantries and partner food banks Package food for our myriad programs that support specifically seniors, children, and the unhoused community, as well as the general population. To begin volunteering, please fill out an application online: https://thurston-county-food-bank.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/ . At the top of the page, click "Apply now". There you can fill out a volunteer application. Please be mindful of the fields with asterisks and certain tiny check boxes as they are required. Beyond that, the more information you care to share, the better we can tailor your volunteer opportunity to you. After you fill out your application, you may visit the same link to sign up for shifts which come twice a day, Tuesday through Thursday, from 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact Joe at wdcvolunteers@thurstoncountyfoodbank.org or via phone 360-352-8597 Extension 105.
Date Posted: 2024-02-15
