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Volunteers are the lifeblood of CFS. 2500 people volunteer at CFS in an average year, putting in 35,000 hours of work (the equivalent of more than 16 full-time employees!)
It is a god-send that these wonderful people donate so much of their precious time to help others. We literally couldn't do it without them!
The benefits of helping are enormous. As a volunteer you are giving back to the community, working with terrific people, and feeling great about being part of the solution!
1. Sort daily donations of produce, bakery, dairy, canned goods or frozen meals.
We consistently need volunteers to sort daily donations of food into food guide pyramid food groups, restock our shopper shelves, prepare bags of food for clients, repack bulk donations or help clean-up. Come for two hours or stay for four hours. Any weekday morning (8:30 - 12:30) or afternoon (12:30- 3:30).
2. Tuesday evening crew.
We gather each Tuesday evening from 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. to do a variety of projects, both in the warehouse and in the office. It's a drop-in thing , but you might call for directions and any current updates on activities we will be achieving.
Warehouse projects: sorting, repacking, restocking, bagging or organizing food donations so they are ready for distribution to shoppers. pulling orders for a specific agency, sorting perishable and nonperishable food or cleaning
Office projects: preparing mailings, checking receipts, word processing, phoning or copying
4. . Drivers Assistant M-F, 7:00am - 12:30pm
Assist one of our paid truck drivers or another volunteer truck driver as they pick up food donations or deliver food orders to agencies. You need to be able to lift 30 - 40 pounds off and on during the 4 to 5 hour period from 7:00 AM to 12:30PM. Must be at least 18 years old. We need MUSCLE!
5 . Drivers (using your vehicle or our vans or trucks to pick up and/or deliver food) You must have current insurance.
A variety of drivers are needed. Anything from using your own vehicle, consistently deliver groceries to a route of elderly homebound, or driving our very large truck to pick up or deliver pallets of food from/to Denver or Greeley. Driver training and a clean driving record are required when driving our trucks
6. "Customer Service"/Check-out "cashier" in the warehouse to help shoppers, Monday-Wednesday, ½ day a week .
Assist our agency shoppers so they can quickly find the food products they need. You'll become familiar with the staff of many of the human service agencies and their food needs, and have the satisfaction of matching them with our available inventory. This position also includes working with our computer inventory program that provides each shopper with a receipt. We need people who are available Mon./Tues./Wed. to commit to ½ day.
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Assist individual family members as they shop by restocking and organizing food. We have over 150 shoppers a day and restocking to keep ahead of them is a challenge. Speaking Spanish is a plus! Thursday - Saturday, 8 am - 2pm (either 8-11:00am or 11:00am - 2pm)
7. Elder Share Deliveries.
Community Food Share supplies supplementary groceries to over 500 elderly people in Boulder and Broomfield Counties, using 10 local sites through the Elder Share Program. We need help delivering the food to either homebound persons or to a local distribution site. We are specifically looking for people who can make a six-month commitment to be available two times a month (either the 2nd & 4th or the 1st and 3rd days of the week). If you are interested in being an Elder Share volunteer, please call Sue at the numbers below.
Please call Community Food Share: 303-652-FOOD (3663), extension 202
to sign-up or
find out MORE about ANY of these opportunities!!
Sue Ericson is the volunteer manager. Her cell # (303) 591-0516 Follow this link to frequently asked questions about volunteering.
Elizabeth McCall, accepting The Longmont Rotary Club's Tower of Compassion Award for "Love, Empathy, Understanding, Gratitude for all things, and Giving Selflessly of oneself for the happiness of all beings."
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October 2009 - Dewey Long
WOW, Dewey has volunteered over 300 hours since June of 2009. That's because he currently volunteers at least 2 times a week as a Driver's Assistant. Dewey is a man with a variety of skills. His professional background is in “I.T.” He also enjoys Country Western Dancing, but the best is his welding knowledge when it came to fixing the lifting gate on one of our trucks! He is also on the Board of Directors for his local Meals on Wheels agency and even had the notoriety of representing Community Food Share during a recent Public TV fundraising campaign. Dewey is a substitute for our staff drivers and has been known to do that without prior notice when one of our staff drivers called in sick. As you can see, Dewey is definitely a GO TO guy and we are very lucky to have him!
November 2009 - Donnie Novak
Might be easier to list the volunteer jobs that Donnie has not done! She is currently an Elder Share Driver (past 16 years +), a Crew Leader for volunteer sorting groups during food drives (past 18 years +) and she helps with our Golf Tournaments (past 16 years +). She often fills in as a substitute Elder Share driver and a substitute driver during food drives. She's helped us re-certify Elder Share Members by making individual home visits. In fact Donnie rarely says “no” to most of our volunteer requests, unless it interrupts her tap dance lessons! Donnie is retired from the Department of Commerce Health Unit where she worked for 31 years. Thanks, Donnie, for your loyalty to Community Food Share and the people that we serve!
December 2009 - Mark Biggers
Mark has been on the scene for the past 2 months. He arrived one day at the same time as a school group and was mistaken as one of their adult helpers. He fit right in and not until after the group session was over, did we figure out that he had potential to volunteer on a weekly basis all by himself! Since then, he's been here regularly each Monday morning to help us pull agency orders. He is also a driver for Elder Share, two times a month. Mark is on our “on call” list for miscellaneous errands and has “answered the call” quite a few times. He's a civil engineer and is retired from a global hydro-engineering company in Broomfield. Sure glad that Mark found us and actually glad that he was not apart of that school group!
January 2010 - Alice Greenberg
Alice has been volunteering for the past year and a half. After graduation from CU, Alice said she had “too much free time” (music to our ears!) and she picked us as her “hobby”! She's now employed 40 hours a week, so helping with the Feeding Families program on Saturdays was a good fit. She averages one Saturday a month, helping us stock the shelves and shopping areas. Her goal is to get food displayed faster than shoppers take it out the door! Alice has also volunteered during a food drive and even talked her significant other, a very strong young gentleman, into helping us with Feeding Families, also. “It's a lot of fun to get out of the typical cubicle atmosphere and physically work” was Alice's rationale for volunteering! Thanks, Alice for all your help and thanks for bringing in big, strong Matt, too! |
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