Opportunities From: United Way of Pierce County

Volunteers are needed at St. Leo's Food Connection to help during the COVID crisis! We need people to...

1. Sort food donations, fill boxes for clients, and distribute food to clients. Shifts are available at these times:

M/W/F – 8:30 – 4:00 T/Th – 8:30 – 5:30 Sat – 8:30 – 2:00

Partial shifts are always welcome!

2. Assist with food pick-ups using St. Leo Food Connection vehicles.

We are in a high risk area as we share a campus with Nativity House (drop-in center and shelter).  We provide gloves (and soon masks), we sanitize regularly, we are limiting the number of clients in the building at one time, and we are implementing 6 foot social distancing.

Volunteers should be between the ages of 18 and 60, in good health, and have no underlying conditions (such as being immunocompromised.)

Please note that the entrance to the Food Connection is off the parking lot in the back of the building.

If interested, please contact Caroline Comfort at carolinec@foodconnection.org

Our Children's Feeding Programs, including our Backpack Program, works to fight hunger year-round in Pierce County. The Backpack Program gives out food for the weekends every week to over 1,100 students at-risk of going hungry over the weekend. Food packing volunteers help with the initial stages of putting the backpacks together for distribution. We are open for volunteering Monday-Wednesday starting everyday at 10:00AM. We ask that all volunteers be over the age of 16 to come unsupervised, but all ages under 16 are welcome to volunteer with direct supervision by a parent or guardian. Volunteer groups are allowed, but we ask that groups be a maximum of 10 people. A short training/orientation will happen before volunteering. We ask that individuals and groups volunteer with us a minimum of 1.5 hours, so they have time to be oriented, get to know what we do, and enough time to complete a project or help with a food line shift.

 

St. Leo Food Bank is one of the largest food banks in Pierce County currently serving between 200-300 families daily. We are currently looking for more volunteers to help with supporting our food bank, by greeting and escorting clients, processing donations, and helping unload trucks and lifting. We are open for volunteering Monday-Saturday starting everyday at 8:30AM. We ask that all volunteers be over the age of 16 to come unsupervised, but all ages under 16 are welcome to volunteer with direct supervision by a parent or guardian. Volunteer groups are allowed, but we ask that groups be a maximum of 10 people. A short training/orientation will happen before volunteering. We ask that individuals and groups volunteer with us a minimum of 1.5 hours, so they have time to be oriented, get to know what we do, and enough time to complete a project or help with a food line shift.