Volunteers: Our Partners, Our Heart

With over 50,000 meals delivered each week, the kitchen staff relies on volunteers to help prepare this massive quantity of food. Tasks may include packaging meals, chopping onions, ladling soup, peeling potatoes or making meatballs.

Volunteers package meal bundles for clients and assemble children's meal kits.

Volunteers will engage in tasks such as packaging client meal bags, labeling meal components, assembling breakfast kits, and organizing meals by delivery route. Your efforts will help ensure that our clients receive nutritious meals efficiently.

Walking deliveries are a great opportunity for anyone who can spare a lunch hour. We have many Neighborhood Meal Distribution Centers (NMDCs) throughout New York City. Volunteers pick up meals and deliver them on foot to client homes in the surrounding neighborhood. Deliveries must be made anytime between the hours of 10:00am and 2:30pm; each shift is typically 1-1.5 hours.

We need office help in many different departments. Projects may include entering donations for our Finance Department, surveying clients by phone for our Client Services Department, or completing filing and data entry for the Volunteer Department. Shifts vary based on project.