weekly – sort, fold, and hang clothes.
Help with seasonal maintenance i.e. raking leaves, cleaning gutters, etc. Time commitment of a few hours once every three-four months
The Northborough Food Pantry is run entirely by volunteers. We are currently accepting applications for volunteers interested in staffing pantry on Thursday evenings when open for clients and for special projects and stocking shelves during weekend food drives.
Volunteers bag nonperishable food and personal care products inside the Newton Food Pantry.
Volunteers work with a small team to unload 7,000 pounds of food from our truck. Heavy lifting is required in this role.
Volunteers help clients with their bimonthly shopping inside the Newton Food Pantry. Tasks include greeting clients, managing flow in the waiting areas and in the pantry, assisting clients with bagging their groceries, and loading groceries into cars once clients are finished shopping. Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, and Portuguese speaking volunteers are an added bonus to our…
Long-term bimonthly commitment to help deliver groceries to medically homebound clients.
There are also opportunities to gain administrative experience working on fundraising projects, information/referral resource development, and office management. As a small Non-Profit we are always in need of volunteers willing to answer the phones, put together packets of information for Survivors and those trying to assist them and help us to keep the office organized.
For interested individuals there are opportunities to gain community development experience working with the community, and particularly adolescents, to inform them of the availability of Agency services, raise awareness of the facts related to sexual assault in Central Massachusetts specifically as well as nationally, and to teach adolescents about healthy relationships and the warning signs…
For interested individuals there are opportunities to gain experience providing counseling to callers to the Agency’s 24 hour crisis hotline. Individuals may also provide counseling on a 1:1 and/or Group basis to Survivors of sexual assault and/or significant others/family members of Survivors.