Thinking About Volunteering?
Metro Catholic Outreach provides food for over 160 local families every week, as well as helping with the needs of dozens of our city's homeless folks. We supply provisions to school children with weekend food insecurity, and we provide some rent or utilities assistance to households that need a boost out of tough situations.
We do this with only four staff who are here only 16-32 hours per week -- Anni, our Executive Director; Robyn, our Pantry Manager; Chelsea, Staff and Volunteer Coordinator, Laura, Financial Assistance Admin and Newsletter Editor. Plus Christine, our Garden Coordinator, out at Prairiewoods.
It is the over 200 volunteers who really make things happen!
Some folks volunteer once or twice per month, some volunteer every week or more. Others sign up when they can, or drop off much needed donations. Many of our volunteers come to us from our local Catholic parishes, but we also have countless volunteers from other area churches, or no church affiliation at all.
Our shifts are only two to three hours long, and the easy work is varied and interesting. Many friendships have formed in the small groups of six to eight who volunteer together. Sorting incoming donations, checking expiration dates, shelving food, packing food boxes, greeting clients, loading groceries into cars, transporting donations from corporate donors, are just some of the tasks performed by our faithful pantry and dock volunteers. Pictured above is Cathy, who leaves her day job a little early on Tuesdays to help out here.
Our office volunteers answer phones, schedule families for their food pickups, greet clients coming in for assistance, assemble and distribute homeless bags.
Whatever your skill level, we can use your help in feeding and assisting local people who need us!
Give us a call or email us (contact info is below) for more information. We would be happy to give you a tour and find a find a place in one of our shifts that you can try.
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