Food Pantry Volunteers

Mid Iowa Community Action is seeking volunteers to help in their food pantry in Ames on anongoing basis depending on volunteer availability. Volunteers are needed on a daily basis, Monday-Friday anytime between 8:30-4:30 as available. Volunteers under the age of 18 must volunteer with an adult.

MICA will conduct a background with all potential volunteers.

Below are some potential volunteer jobs in the food pantry, though subject to change based on volunteer needs:

Front office: phones, greeting, scheduling appointments, food box/ bagging (on days not choice), other office duties as assigned

You will have the chance to interact with families of the community with providing warm greetings and providing information, as well as scheduling face-to-face appointments. You will also be speaking to individuals on the phone answering questions and concerns to help provide them with services and resources they need. With the amount of families who rely on food pantry, you will help immensely by preparing pre-made bags and boxes of household groceries for families in need on MICAs non-choice pantry days. Every day is never the same though and we may need your help anywhere else in our offices.

Choice pantry check out: bags items for families, may help take to car/load up, checks items to make sure numbers are reached, faces product and stocks as needed (some heavy lifting)

With the implementation of MICAs new choice pantry option, we are in need of individuals who may help us manage the transition. You will help supervise and check items taken by families, making sure that each family is taking the correct amount of food and that numbers are being reached. This may include loading cars for individuals in need of assistance, as well as assuring that all pantry shelves are stocked and ready for the next family, so be prepared for some heavy lifting!

Stockers: stocks shelves, faces product, creates bags for non-choice days, unloads carts (heavier lifting)

With MICAs ability to serve everyone in Story County, we are in need of individuals who may maintain and flow of or food pantry by ensuring that they are stocked and loaded at all times, so some heavy lifting may be involved. This position will allow management and organization of materials, along with the responsibility to help make household bags of groceries, unload carts from donors, and faces product. All help is welcome!