Cook, package, and distribute meals for food-insecure New Yorkers

EVLovesNYC (https://www.evloves.nyc/) is a scrappy non-profit organization that serves our food-insecure neighbors. We cook and package meals every week to distribute to groups around the city. Lots of meals. Upwards of 2400 meals every Sunday. We are always looking for volunteers to join our team.

Working here seems to appeal to a wide variety of people - students, artists, musicians, writers, nurses, and teachers. There are lots of East Village locals but people travel from all over the city to work with us every week. It's fun, noisy, and rewarding.

Each Sunday morning, we get together and make food happen.

• The teams who do prep and cooking arrive at 9
• The team that packages, and distributes meals start at 12
• Our distribution teams meets around 12pm at two downtown distribution points to hand out meals to neighbors in need
• The clean-up team arrives around 2 and sets things back in order

Throughout the day, bikes, cars, and trucks arrive to pick up the boxes of meals and distribute our free, nutritious, and tasty food to people, organizations, and community refrigerators throughout the boroughs, focusing on the neighborhoods most underserved by food banks. It's pretty cool and very volunteer-dependent.

Recently, we've also begun providing support and advocacy for the asylum seekers and their families.

All volunteers must be at least 18 years old.

Health department requirements for people working with hot food include wearing closed-toe shoes (no sandals), a hat or scarf to cover your hair, long pants, and a shirt with sleeves. Thanks!

3 shifts available:

• With a fun team of regulars, you'll be prepping food for the kitchen: chopping + peeling, making rice, cutting meat: 09:00 to 12:00 EST
• With our regular team, you'll be assembling meals + packaging them in cartons, loading them into boxes for pickup by distribution partners.: 12:00 to 15:30 EST
• You'll be helping with cleanup, washing dishes, wiping down work areas, moving boxes with a fun and organized crew of regulars.: 14:00 to 16:00 EST