Volunteer
I'm Ready to Serve!
Each day, Bread for the City partners with community members like you. Volunteers serve in every Bread for the City department, and whether you can give two hours or two-hundred hours, we thank you for taking a step to help!
• Contact the Volunteer Engagement Staff.
• Making arrangements for a corporate group or large nonprofit (with a budget in excess of $10 million)? Please contact our Corporate Partnerships team.
All volunteers must be fully vaccinated starting Monday, August 16.
Volunteer Opportunities All confirmed volunteers should visit breadforthecity.org/waiver to complete the required documents. (Mandated community service volunteers, admin volunteers, and BFC interns should complete the first and third bullets.) Please review the volunteer handbook to ensure awareness of volunteer policies and procedures. We look forward to working with you!
Sort, hang, and arrange clothing donations. During open hours, offer customer service to Bread for the City’s client population.
FOOD PANTRY
Help bag and distribute food items. Offer hospitality to Bread for the City clients as they select groceries to take home!
Administrative volunteers help with filing, scanning, data entry, shredding, and other tasks. A background check, confidentiality agreement, and other paperwork are required for some roles. Administrative volunteers should complete all volunteer documents.
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NEW OPPORTUNITIES
• Admin Support Volunteer – Bread for the City seeks two volunteers to serve two days a week for four hours each. Volunteers who are able to serve for an extended period (two or more months) are preferred. Duties include data entry, telephone monitoring, light client outreach at NW and/or SE centers, reminder and update calls, filing and organization, and administrative support. Interested candidates should click here.
Limited volunteer slots are available for licensed health care professionals interested in volunteering in Bread for the City’s Medical Clinic. Medical volunteers undergo a required credential review and background check.
Bread for the City does not offer internships in our medical division. We have ongoing relationships with area schools for health care students looking for sites to do clinical rotations, but we do not accept applications from individuals.
Thanks for your interest in service!
LEGAL
If you are a law student please contact Tracy Davis at tdavis[at]breadforthecity.org to learn more about current internships in the Legal Clinic.
BILINGUAL VOLUNTEERS
Bread for the City’s clients speak many more languages than found among the talents of our staff. If you are a bi- or multilingual speaker, we’d love to have you on our bilingual volunteer roster as a potential bridge over language barriers.
VOLUNTEER AMBASSADOR
Can you help us inspire more people to serve? The Volunteer Program is looking for volunteer ambassadors who’ll commit to learning more about the organization, then represent us at various volunteer fairs and community events. Participants are asked to learn and demonstrate organizational knowledge. To learn more, sign up here.
KNOWLEDGE SHARERS
Do you have business knowledge or a unique skill you can teach our clients? Bread for the City has multiple programs that occasionally need “knowledge sharers” who’ll better prepare our clients for the workplace and life in general. Please submit your résumé to let us know you’re interested!
VOLUNTEER DRIVERS
Volunteer drivers are occasionally needed to pick-up in-kind donations and to support other efforts. If you can help, let us know!
INTERNSHIPS
Click here to explore internships at Bread for the City.
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Note: Active skilled volunteers should report their hours at least monthly through the comments field on the special project volunteer form. Please send your number of hours completed, timeframe, department, center, and supervisor when you submit. Completion of this form helps to ensure that Bread for the City always has a record of your service. Thank you!
Looking for a community-minded office activity for your team? Consider an in-kind goods drive (especially a diaper drive or men’s clothing drive) or care kit packaging event!
CARE KIT PREPARATION
(any number of items, any combination)
• Toiletries, such soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, lotion, shampoo, conditioner, lip balm, or deodorant.
• Personal care items, such as a small comb/brush, wet hand wipes, dry tissues, nail clippers, band-aids, lip balm, and cough drops.
• Nonperishable individual snacks, such as cereal bars, dried fruit snacks, or crackers.
• Spices and condiments, such as small packages of salt, pepper, ketchup, or sugar.
Consolidate your items in a plastic bag that zips or seals. Feel free to include inspiring quotes or other words of encouragement! Drop off your kits to either BFC Center to the attention of the Volunteer & In-Kind Gifts Manager. We appreciate your support!
Volunteer Documents
All confirmed volunteers should visit breadforthecity.org/waiver to complete required documents. (Mandated community service volunteers, admin volunteers, and BFC interns should complete the first and third bullets.) For volunteers that feel uncomfortable with e-signatures, paper versions of the documents are located below. Please review the volunteer handbook to ensure awareness of volunteer policies and procedures. Please contact the Volunteer Engagement Staff with any questions.
Sexual Harassment Training |
Prevent Sexual Harassment | Download |
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BFC Anti-Harassment Policy |
BFC Anti-Harassment Policy | Download |
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Bread for the City Liability Waiver |
All volunteers must sign before serving. | Download |
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Client Confidentiality Agreement |
For ongoing volunteers providing direct services. | Download |
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Code of Conduct |
For extended service volunteers. | Download |
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Community Service Timesheet |
For volunteers reporting hours to third parties. | Download |
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Computer Security Policies |
For admin volunteers and interns. | Download |
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Thank you for choosing to serve with Bread for the City!
Kyah Campbell joins Bread for the City in 2019-2020 as our SE Volunteer Coordinator. She is now serving with us full-time as our Volunteer Engagement Manager, SE.
My name is Adeola Adetayo. You can call me Esther (which is my English name) or Adeola. I am a Nigerian American. I came to America when I was seven years old and I have lived here ever since. I graduated with a bachelor of arts in psychology. As of now, I am interested in law and business.
Effective Monday, August 1st:
Bread for the City will begin distributing groceries at the front door of both centers Mon-Thurs, 9a-4p. No groceries will be distributed on Fridays, but we will still have farmer’s markets once a month at each center!
