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Summer Volunteer Opportunities

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New Volunteer Opportunities

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Current Volunteer Opportunities

Evening Meal Distribution

Help us distribute meals to the community at FoodChain from 3:40 pm to 6:20 pm.

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Indoor Aquaponics Farmer

Come and get your hands dirty at FoodChain by helping us on our indoor farm! Learn all about aquaponics while helping our farm run more efficiently, allowing more of our fresh, local produce to be sent out into the community!

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Meal Plate Up Assistance

Volunteers will assist trained kitchen staff in plating individual meals for our meal distributions and packing them into holding containers. 

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Saturday Shift: Grocery Edition

As we open our New Green Grocery, come and help us organize, prep, and plan for various components of our Grocery. 

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Indoor Aquaponics Farm Clean Up

Come and get your hands dirty at FoodChain by helping us clean our indoor farm! Learn all about aquaponics while helping keep our farm clean.

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School Cooking Class Assistant

Assist our staff with our food literacy classes in schools.

Note: For this position you MUST register as a volunteer with FCPS.

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Meal Kit Prep

Assemble sandwich kits, organize meals, and build meal kits. With your help, we can provide the maximum amount of meals to the community.

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Saturday Shift

Spend your Saturday morning prepping and packaging at FoodChain. You’re guaranteed to have a good time with our prep cooks.

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Trader Joe's Assistant

Help us rescue food from Trader Joe’s and get your midweek workout in by lifting, unloading, and sorting.

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Mobile Meal Delivery

Assist with our Nourish Lexington meal delivery service. Volunteers model a more impactful feeding program by delivering food directly to community members.

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Kitchen Prep

Use your cooking skills to help us with kitchen prep. Help us process fruits and veggies, help build sandwich kits, and prepare snacks for our kids’ sites. Get us one step closer to providing food for the community.

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Community Cooking Class Assistant

Assist with our monthly community cooking classes. Help us give the best class possible by handling the small details

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Volunteer Saftey Policy

FoodChain serves vulnerable populations including seniors, youth, and families. Volunteers are required to disclose in advance if there are any circumstances that would make them unable to work with these populations. FoodChain reserves the right to request a background check for volunteers and a full background check is required for any volunteers wishing to work with our education programs in schools, child care centers, and our summer youth programs.

If you are volunteering as a requirement for completing service hours and need hour verification, please email volunteer@foodchainlex.org before signing up to ensure program alignment. If you have any questions about this please email volunteer@foodchainlex.org.

Questions?

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If you have any questions regarding volunteering, please feel free to email us at volunteer@foodchainlex.org

Attend Our Volunteer Orientation

Note: The Volunteer Orientation is NOT required before volunteering. It is just suggested.