Learn about volunteer opportunities

You can sign up for our volunteer shifts by clicking the link in “Register to volunteer here!” Once you have clicked the link, you will be directed to our Bloomerang Volunteer page titled “Volunteer Center.” Select “Signup for more Shifts!” in the top right corner of our “Volunteer Center” page. First time users will be prompted to create an account through Bloomerang Volunteer. Once you have created your account, you will see all volunteer shifts that are available. Bloomerang Volunteer allows volunteers to track hours and sign up for future volunteer opportunities easily.

To create a safe and enjoyable volunteer experience, every volunteer is required to register in advance and sign up for a shift that has available slots. This helps our staff to coordinate activities with our warehouse and to ensure we don’t have too many people in our buildings at one time. 

We ask groups with less than 10 volunteers to have each volunteer sign up for their shifts individually.

For groups exceeding 10 volunteers, please contact awilson@foodbanknega.org with the following information: The name of your group or organization, how many volunteers plan to attend, which timeframe works best for your group. (morning or afternoon)

To ensure a time slot, we recommend that large groups schedule their events 8 weeks in advance. We cannot guarantee time slots for events at short notice. We are unable to schedule repeat monthly volunteer shifts.

Volunteers must be 12 years old or older to volunteer. Children between the ages of 12-13 must be accompanied by an adult who is also volunteering alongside them for the entire volunteer shift.

Volunteers over the age of 14 are allowed to volunteer on their own! We ask the parents or legal guardians to bring their young volunteers for a tour of our facility or volunteer alongside their children for the first volunteer shift before they can volunteer on their own.

An adult must register all minors through Bloomerang Volunteer.

The Food Bank is happy to welcome student groups from 6th grade and up. We invite 20 volunteers per group with a minimum of 2-3 chaperones. Each session, students will volunteer for 60 minutes followed by a 30-minute tour of the Food Bank where they are encouraged to ask questions about our work and food insecurity.

There are a variety of activities that our volunteers may be asked to complete when volunteering with us. These activities include packing food boxes or sorting donations from our retail partners. We are unable to tell you what activity you will be doing ahead of time as our activities are based on the needs of our warehouse and Sharing Floor.

Since we are an active warehouse, we ask all volunteers to wear closed-toe and closed-heeled shoes (tennis shoes), long pants, and shirts with sleeves and torsos covered (t-shirts). We have scrubs available if you are not in appropriate attire.

Headphone and cell phone usage is prohibited while volunteers are working.

There is an evening shift on the first and third Tuesday of every month, 5:15 pm – 6:30pm. We do not offer any weekend volunteer shifts.

We do not offer court-mandated community service hours at our Athens Branch.