Volunteering at Local Aid

Thank you! Volunteers are vital to Local Aid's success. Each month, our 14 to 17 volunteers log from 170 to 200 hours working for Local Aid. Last December 2007, 77 volunteers worked more than 330 hours helping with food drives and distribution of Christmas food boxes.

Volunteer opportunities

We currently need:

Food pantry volunteers to assist clients in selecting food for monthly emergency food boxes. No heavy lifting is required, just a friendly manner and an ability to help people limit their selections within guidelines.
Client reception volunteers to work in our front office, receiving clients and assisting them in applying for help or signing up for current services.
Volunteers to keep pantry shelves stocked, store food in the pantry's storage areas, repackage bulk foods, and do other tasks to keep the pantry clean and functional. Some lifting is required for this kind of work.
A grass-roots fund-raising coordinator, who would be able to take the initiative in organizing fund-raising events such as local benefit dinners, "spare change" jars around town, bottle-recycling efforts and the like.
Volunteers to act as liaisons between their church, organization or workplace and Local Aid.

We also enjoy having groups volunteer, for special events such as Scouts or Post Office food drives, and for our annual Christmas box event in December. If your church, youth group, club or business is interested in group volunteering for a special event, do call us.

How do I volunteer?

It's easy! Just call us or come by and fill out an application.