VOLUNTEER

Food Service: Support breakfast and lunch service in the soup kitchen by carrying out general tasks with guidance from staff. You may be asked to help prepare, cook & package meals, make sandwiches and other food items, portion and package snacks, distribute food and non-food items, and assist in the post-meal clean up. Depending on the day of the week, you may also help assemble pantry bags with the items available for that week and help distribute pantry bags and vegetables to those who visit our pantry program.

Breakfast Shift Leader: If you choose this role, you must first volunteer to be trained on the set up of to-go breakfast service and its related tasks. The shift leader, under minimal supervision, helps to guide other volunteers on necessary tasks to ensure a smooth Breakfast service. You must be comfortable with giving direction to others.

Kitchen Opener/ Chef Assistant: If you choose this role, you must first volunteer for the Breakfast Opener Shift and be trained in the kitchen and its related opening tasks. You must be comfortable in a kitchen setting, familiar with food preparation including chopping vegetables, processing meat etc.

Organizing: With hundreds of meals being served daily, we have a constant stream of items coming in our door. We are always in need of an extra pair of hands to keep things organized! This could be organizing supplies or food, closets or fridges, or toiletries or pantry goods.

Reception Desk (Female Only): 

• Greeting all visitors through the intercom and welcoming them, if needed, once they are buzzed in. (Includes residents, volunteers, staff, deliveries etc)
• Greeting all callers, providing them with information about our services and connecting them with appropriate staff, and taking messages as needed.
• Help to sign in-and-out residents of the Frances Residence and/or their guests and assist with any issues or needs they may have. 
• Communicates with food service staff using two-way radio and helps to serve food service guests during sandwich only hours (1pm – 4pm).
• Perform other office tasks as needed, which may include: scanning, printing, data entry, folding, stuffing, and posting mail, or other miscellaneous projects.
• Assist residence and/or administrative staff with needs they may have.

Data Entry: 

• Support data entry needs for a variety of platforms including google sheets, excel, salesforce, Bloomerang etc. 
• Eye for detail and familiarity with at least one of the platforms.

Apartment Staging: Set up an empty apartment for a new resident with all the items she needs for it to feel like home. Supplies will be in the apartment – everything needs to be opened up and placed in the appropriate location. Some tasks include making the bed with new sheets and comforter, setting up the kitchen with pots and pans and plates etc, hanging the shower curtain and setting out rugs in the bathroom.

Resident Arrival: Help a resident (who may be in her third trimester or postpartum) get settled into her new home. Can include helping to unpack belongings, decorate, organize etc.

Resident Departure: Help a resident (who may be preoccupied with her toddler) get packed up to move out of the Frances Residence. Can include helping to pack belongings, organize, or clean up.