How to Help

Volunteer

At ALF Food Pantry, we are dedicated to serving individuals and families with limited income by providing them with nutritious food options. We are a 100% volunteer organization and are always looking for new people to help. Please email us to set up training. contact@alffoodpantry.org

Opportunities to help

• ALF drivers begin each day with pickups of donated food from local stores and deliver the food to the pantry.

• Saturday gleaners go to farmers' markets to pick up leftover produce, etc.

• Our pantry staff reviews our supplies and purchases more when needed.

• Morning Team Duties
  Our morning teams orchestrate an incredible process, including stocking shelves, sorting and bagging produce, boxing the groceries and exchanging information with the afternoon service as well as the next day's morning team.

• Afternoon Team Duties
  Each client is greeted by a file review volunteer who checks that the client's information is correct. After speaking with the volunteer, clients return outside to wait. Food distributor volunteers fill a large cart with the appropriate amount of food for family size, adding meat and dairy products. The volunteer then calls the client's name and pushes out a cart laden with groceries, usually within five minutes.

• In the background, the Board Members are the backbone of the administration of ALF Food Pantry.

Host a canned food drive

Food drives are a great way to provide nutritious food to our ALF food pantry. They also help raise awareness about food insecurity and build a stronger community.

• Do you belong to an organization that would support having a canned food drive?

• Do you have children involved in sports that could host a food drive?

• Ask if you can collect canned food at your place of work.

Boxes of food ready for distribution

Our volunteers bring food out to the clients.