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Why should your company volunteer at The Food Bank?
- To help us feed 83,000 people each week in eastern Massachusetts who need food assistance.
- Great team-building opportunity as your group learns and serves together.
- We accommodate groups as small as five and as large as seventy people!
- Great public relations, photo opportunities, and connection to community.
- Customized programming:
- We can develop Serve and Learn offerings based on your company's interest. For example, a focus on hunger, nutrition, your community, etc.
- We can work with you to set up internal or inter-industry competitions upon request— your company's chance for bragging rights for best corporate team! For details on our annual sorting competition, click here.
"Shaw's has had a long-standing relationship with The Food Bank. It's rewarding to be a partner in the fight against hunger with an organization that helps us provide assistance to those in need in the areas we both serve. Shaw's and The Food Bank are feeding the spirit of the community."
- Jim Cadres, Vice President, Perishable Buying, Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.
Helping hungry families can be a part of your corporate culture while building stronger workplace teams! More than 300 corporate groups come to sort with us each year. By working together on a project that helps their community, employees, or members of any group can reap the benefits of community involvement, pride, and a sense of accomplishment. Everyone on the team has an important role, and the result is always a good one—helping our community.
Getting Started
To start your group experience please fill out the Corporate & Adult Groups Application. We will contact you after we receive the application to reserve your time on the schedule.
Many organizations prefer to conduct a food drive in conjunction with their volunteer service at The Food Bank. To learn more about food drives click here.
All volunteer groups must make an appointment for their visit.
We have set volunteering times:
| Monday—Saturday: |
Morning shift: |
8:45-12:00 pm |
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Afternoon shift: |
12:45-4:00 pm |
| Wednesday evening shift: |
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5:15-8:30 pm |
| Summer Saturdays (June—August) shift: |
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9:00 am-1:00 pm |
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