VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

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Examples of volunteer opportunities at Tarrant Area Food Bank include:

• Quality Control worker sorting and packing food into storage boxes (Individuals aged 16 and older and groups of teens or adults including corporate, school, service, civic, religious, professional, social and youth groups).
  
  
• Office assistant doing computer and clerical work or reception duty (high school and college students, adults).
  
  
• BackPacks for Kids Night in Quality Control (groups of adults and children supervised by adults).
  
  
• Chef instructor, nutrition instructor or class assistant/shopper for Operation Frontline nutrition education classes (college students and adults).
  
  
• Committee worker for fundraising events such as Empty Bowls or Breakfast with the Stars (adults).
  
  
• Set up, clean up and tear down of event venues (high school and college students, adults).
  
  
• Community Kitchen volunteer who boxes and seals meals for distribution to the Food Bank's partner charities (adults).
  
  
• Group that handles large mailings (ages 12 and up).
  
  
• Researcher (college students and adults).
  
  
• Coordinator of Cans & Cash Drive for a workplace, school, club, professional association, religious organization, civic association, youth group, neighborhood or other group (pre-teens, teens, adults).
  
  
• Agency Services volunteer to mentor partner charities (adults).
  
  
• SNAP/Food Stamp Outreach assistant to help people apply for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP)/Food Stamps (college students and adults).
  
  
• Advisor in food handling and acquisition, advocacy and government relations, finances, marketing, fundraising, volunteer recruitment, facilities management and other areas of expertise.
  
  
• Sponsor a Food Bank speaker to make a presentation to the sponsor’s workplace, school class, professional association, or religious, social, civic, youth or other group (teen and adult volunteers).