VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

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Examples of volunteer opportunities at Tarrant Area Food Bank include:

• Agency Relations: Assist with site visits, training and orientation and technical support for our Partner Agencies and Food Bank staff.  Compile monthly statistics.  Assist with community collaborations.

• BackPacks for Kids Night in Quality Control: Pack nonperishable, kid-friendly food for school-aged children at risk of hunger on the weekends.  Groups and families with children over eight years of age may volunteer.

• Canned Food Drives: Work with businesses and organizations in their food drives or work with existing food drive groups to enhance drives, or start your own canned food drive.

• Community Gardens: Serve as a knowledgeable resource to community gardens, assist in the initial set-up and construction of gardens, or assist with garden site evaluation and with maintaining and updating the Food Bank's Community Garden website pages, Resource Guide and other information.

• Community Kitchen Production: Assist the production team in producing the maximum number of prepared meals provided to Partner Agencies and their clients.

• Dock/Warehouse: Help in receiving and sorting product, pulling product orders from Partner Agencies and delivering product at the dock.

• Nutrition Services: Volunteer as a chef/cooking instructor, nutrition instructor or class assistant/shopper for Cooking Matters™, a program of Share Our Strength, or as a nutrition instructor of classes about healthy eating habits for children, teens, families or senior adults.
  
  
• Office/Clerical/Data Input: Help with record-keeping, list management, writing thank-you notes, data entry and other computer-based projects, preparing mailings, telephoning and reception desk duties.
  

• Quality Control: Inspect, sort and place food in storage boxes.  Open to individuals and groups including corporate, school, service, civic, religious, professional and social groups. Youth must be 16 years or older or be accompanied by a parent or guardian to work in this area where heavy machinery is in use.

• SNAP (Food Stamp) Outreach Event Assistant: Assist SNAP Outreach team in helping people apply for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) benefits.
  

• Special Fundraising Events: Serve on planning committees, prepare mailings, decorate, collect prizes, help with registration and set up for the event.

• Sponsor a Food Bank speaker to make a presentation to the your workplace, school class, professional association, or religious, social, civic, youth or other group.

• Youth Group Special Projects: Youth younger than 16 can help with special tasks such as assembling boxes, sorting, stuffing or labeling--jobs that do not involve activity around heavy machinery.  Youth can also assemble special bags of food, off site, such as "Birthday in a Bag," to distribute to hungry children.  (Children must be 16 years or older or be accompanied by a parent or guardian to work in Quality Control.)

For more information and to schedule volunteer hours, please Contact Us.