Meal Donation Volunteer

Mission: New Life Center’s mission is to help eliminate domestic and sexual violence through support services, education, and expertise.

Purpose: The Meal Donation Volunteer helps NLC and the residents by providing purchased meals for either lunch or dinner. Meal donations help provide unique meals that save agency funds and help participants feel connected and cared for. This service assists in upholding NLC’s mission, vision, and core values of compassion, resilience, equity, and community.

Steps to complete when donating a shelter meal:

• Connect with Community Engagement Manager to confirm dates and times for meal donation
• Purchase a meal from a pre-approved list or submit option for approval
• Coordinate the drop-off of the meal at Shelter
• Send receipt of purchase to Community Engagement Manager to track in-kind contribution
• Communicate with Community Engagement Manager on any questions or schedule changes

Requirements:

• An understanding of the need to keep aligned with health department standards
• Effective communication skills
• Commitment, understanding the importance of providing a reliable services
• Understanding that this role coordinates and drops off the meal but does not serve the meal at shelter