Volunteer - River City Food BankAt — River City Food Bank

Opportunity Summary 

Join us as a volunteer at River City Food Bank and directly impact lives by alleviating hunger in our community. By lending your hands, you’ll not only gain invaluable skills but also form deep connections with fellow volunteers and those we assist.

Your effort shines as a beacon of hope, uplifting individuals and families facing food insecurity. Together, let’s forge a compassionate community where hunger is a thing of the past. Your commitment can make that difference.

1 service learner spot

Requirements:

  • Bilingual Desired
Opportunity Training 

We require volunteers to complete a Civil Rights training. To complete this training, volunteers watch an informational video and sign off that they understand the content.

We also provide further training for our Intake and Greeter roles that require computer literacy and extended volunteerism with our organization.

We build close relationships with all of our volunteers and get to know their personal needs and reasons for volunteering their time. We suit the experience based on their individual situation.

Additional risk specific to this opportunity 

Wear closed toe shoes and food safe gloves.

We operate forklifts and pallet jacks in the vicinity of the volunteer area. This placement requires working with hazardous materials, heavy equipment, construction equipment, heights, or heavy machinery.

Opportunity Application Instructions 

All volunteers are required to make a volunteer profile on our volunteer portal website, CERVIS.

Once you’ve created a profile, you can choose any of the shifts that work for your schedule. As a reminder, we have multiple shifts per day at our 2 sites.

 

Program 
Service Learning
Location Type 
On-site
Location 
Sacramento, CA
United States
Students required to have a personal vehicle 
No
Fees students may incur with this opportunity 
No Fees will be incurred by students
This opportunity provides some form of compensation 
No
Opportunity Availability 
Ongoing