Weekly Food Distribution Help Needed!

Brief Organizational Description: Our mission is to support the neighbors of the East End and educate its students, equipping them to serve as positive contributors to their families, community, and society.

Volunteer Position Description and Purpose:

We need ongoing volunteer support to ensure we can confirm with Feedmore that we’ll add this food location. Volunteers would need to know that:

This assignment will require heavy lifting of boxes from the store warehouse/loading dock into vehicles
Boxes will range from 5-25 pounds and volunteers are preferred who can lift and sort the items to ensure we’re able to get as many pounds of food as possible.
Please confirm if volunteers can utilize their vehicle to load items or if we’d need to ensure that staffing is available with the Peter Paul van.
Boxes will be unloaded at Peter Paul from the grocery store, sorted through, and organized to create distribution bags.
We need to confirm with Food Lion, the exact pick-up time, however this will occur each Monday so the volunteers would need to commit to this task weekly.
This opportunity is for pre-support of distribution as described above, NOT to support distributing food to the community on distribution days.
Ideally this would be a lager volunteer group who can support the lift of boxes, offer their vehicles for pick-up, and sort/pack items. As such, ideally a group of (3-5 individuals)

Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Loading food at Food Lion on Mondays and bringing it back to the Center to sort

Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
Must be able to lift 5-25lb boxes

Time Commitment:
Weekly on Mondays

Other Information (if applicable):

• Volunteers need to sign in on the Volunteer Sign In sheet when they arrive to the Center and document their hours there
• Orientation takes approximately 20 minutes
• Dress comfortably and stay hydrated