Plant flowers, weed and prune bushes in the gazebo garden, or spread mulch around our playscapes. Getting your hands dirty is rewarding.
The majority of our volunteers are needed at the food bank itself. About 15% of the food we receive (over 5 million pounds) has special handling requirements. Typically, this involves processing food by sorting, labeling, or repacking it. Example: Repacking 800-pound bins of cereal into family-size portions.
During the harvest season, many farmers find themselves with extra fruits and vegetables on their hands. Instead of letting this nutritious produce go to waste, they call us. Every summer and fall, our volunteers pick — or “glean” — these fruits and vegetables for the food bank. Crops include tomatoes, cherries, and apples.
Benton Harbor, MI. We’re looking for an organized, high-energy individual to help us manage our group of passionate volunteers! Great for Groups (up to 20)
Work with your company, community group, or family and friends to make blankets! Order FTY blanket kits, meet up at a location of your choice, and make blankets together as a group! We do 400+ events every year, and this is how we are able to provide comfort to so many kids that are sick!
Get your friends or club together to clean a yard or paint a house.
Support our families who are staying in shelter through our Interfaith Hospitality Network program! As an evening volunteer, you can make a meal or play with our kiddos at our host congregations.
Help around our office by keeping our space clean for our families and kids, assembling various craft projects and thank you projects, donation organizing, data entry, etc.
Help make our families houses into homes! We accept furniture donations from our community and then volunteers use our pick up truck to bring furniture items to our families once they’ve moved home.
We are looking for volunteers to help us spread our mission of ending homelessness, one family at a time throughout our community by speaking at local organizations, schools, community events, etc.