Olympia Food Pantry Volunteer

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact on your community? At the Thurston County Food Bank, our mission is to eliminate hunger within our community, in the spirit of neighbor helping neighbor. We currently provide groceries to about 6,000 families a month throughout Thurston County! Getting all of the food off our shelves and onto the dinner table requires a tremendous amount of labor. That’s where our incredible network of dedicated volunteers comes in! We are always looking for more volunteers to help us receive, process, and distribute food to the hundreds of households we support on every day of service.

Located at 220 Thurston Ave NE, in the heart of Downtown Olympia, the Thurston County Food Bank’s Olympia Pantry hosts three weekly food distribution days every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

At our Olympia Food Pantry volunteers:

• Set up a welcoming, shopping-like experience for our clients
• Process and sort produce, bread, and other foodstuffs
• Staff tables for food distribution for our clients
• Clean and organize our working space

To begin volunteering, please fill out an application online: https://thurston-county-food-bank.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/ . At the top of the page click "Apply now". There you can fill out a volunteer application. After you fill out your application, you may visit the same link to sign up for shifts which come twice a day, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 7:45am-12pm and 11:45am-4pm.

If you have further questions, please contact our volunteer coordinators at volunteers@tcfb.org or via phone at 360-352-8597 Extension 207.

2 shifts available:

• Morning shifts are 7:45am - noon, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 07:45 to 11:45 PST
• Afternoon shift are noon - 4:00pm, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 12:00 to 16:00 PST