Flagstaff Family Food Center Volunteer Opportunities

September is Hunger Action Month and the Flagstaff Family Food Center has volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups.

Group Opportunities:

• Sandwich Making: Groups make sandwiches for our to-go lunch service and community non-profits.  This event is competitive and lively!
• Dinner Service: Groups serve dinner to the Flagstaff community. Dinner is served to-go and in-house.  This event is impactful and inspiring!
• Food Box Distribution: Provide food boxes to families at our outdoor, drive-thru distribution!  This is a "no-contact" distribution.  Volunteers load carts with groceries and place food into cars.
• Produce Box Packing: Pack boxes with healthy produce for our food distributions!  Requires standing during the entire shift.  Great activity for people looking for an active, fast-moving event!
• Food Bag Building:  Prepare bags with a variety of shelf stable foods for families in need.  These bags go out through our distribution program to roughly 150 families per day!
• Food Prep: Prepare Healthy meals at our kitchen!  Duties include chopping produce, assembling salads, making sandwiches, and more.  Great event for improving you kitchen skills!
• Mobile Distribution: Join us at one of our eight mobile distribution sites!  Volunteers help intake client information, load groceries into cars and fill grocery boxes.  Lively, fast-paced event!
• Food Drives: Is your team looking to do something out of your space?  Consider hosting a food drive!  Boxes with high-need food labels can be picked up from our warehouse.  From there, advertise to your community and we can pick up the food from you!

Warehouse Opportunities

• Food Box Distribution: With the help of volunteers, we are able to give out groceries to over 200 families per day!  Volunteer roles include: load food into cars, controlling traffic, packing food into boxes and writing down client information.  Our volunteer events are great for team building, families, individuals and students!  Volunteer max: 6 people
• Produce Box Packing: Pack boxes with healthy produce for our food distributions!  Volunteer roles include: packing produce boxes, assisting staff to build pallets & building boxes.  This event is great for team building, families, individuals and students! Volunteer max: 7 people
• Food Bag Building: Prepare bags with a variety of shelf-stable foods for families in need.  These bags go out though our distribution program to roughly 150 families per day! Volunteer max: 7 people

​The Flagstaff Family Food Center gives hope to local families by providing hunger relief and children’s literacy programs. For over 30 years, we have rescued food from local sources, coordinated incredible volunteers to prepare, serve and distribute food, and maintained a safe community gathering place for sharing meals and encouraging a love of reading. Through our various food programs, we provide thousands of meals daily throughout northern Arizona. When you give to the Flagstaff Family Food Center, your contributions stay local as we work together to feed our neighbors in need.