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Update December 21, 2009:

We are closed on Wednesday evening, December 23 and Wednesday evening, December 30.

We will be closed on December 24-27, January 1-3 and January 18. We are always closed on the Saturdays and Sundays of holiday weekends.

Because of the popularity of volunteering during the holiday season, we are currently booked

up until the spring of 2010 for Saturday volunteer group scheduling and for most other shifts

until January of 2010.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGE in our REQUIREMENTS TO VOLUNTEER:

Because of the machinery in our new sorting area, we require NO LOOSE CLOTHING OR ITEMS that could be caught in the conveyer belts. This would include untucked shirts, wide sleeves, jewelry including bracelets or long necklaces. LONG HAIR must be tied back or contained in a hat.

Please contact us at volunteer@gbfb.org if you have any questions about this.

General Volunteer Information

Volunteers are critical to the work we do every day in feeding the hungry. The Greater Boston Food Bank manages the largest internal volunteer program in the region, averaging more than 10,000 volunteers a year.

We depend on volunteers to inspect, sort, and repack "salvaged" food and grocery products which we receive. These items are then redistributed to nearly 600 hunger-relief agencies throughout eastern Massachusetts.

The help you supply is real, tangible, and relied on by more than 394,000 people who benefit annually from the food we provide.

Volunteers include students, seniors, businesspeople, church members, and others who help us separate, sort, inspect, and package food. Volunteer opportunities are available six days a week, with flexible hours, mornings, afternoons, and evenings.

Are you looking for a site to bring your corporate, school, or civic group for community service?  We are the only organization in Greater Boston that can schedule large groups — up to 30 volunteers —six days a week, every week!

Please select the option below that best describes you and/or your group:

I am an individual who wishes to volunteer. Click here

I am required to complete volunteer hours for school or community service. Click here

I am thinking about bringing my company to volunteer. Click here

I want to bring a community group, church group, social group, college, or a group of friends to volunteer. Click here

I want to bring my elementary or high school to volunteer. Click here