Each year, JFCS provides Thanksgiving meals for families in need. Partner organizations sponsor items for the food boxes — that brim with potatoes, a kosher turkey, pumpkin pie and more — that volunteers deliver to community members. Click here to learn more. If you’d like to volunteer your time and energy for this event to make your and so many others’ holiday season special and fulfilling, please respond to this opportunity.
Due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19 we will not be doing the boxing of the food items in the gym. If you volunteer you will drive through the MJCC roundabout and be provided with a list of addresses and the appropriate amount of meal boxes. You will receive about 4 addresses to deliver to. This is a COVID-friendly, no contact delivery.
Important information:
- This event will take place between 12-2pm, you will come to the MJCC during a specific time slot, and the task should take about an hour to an hour and a half
- This task might require you to carry heavy boxes and walk up stairs.
- You must be vaccinated to volunteer at in-person events with JFCS
- If you sign up and have not been previously background-checked by JFCS, we will be sending you a background check via Sterling Volunteers
Keep in mind when signing up:
- Sign up for a single, specific shift. You can come to the MJCC any time within that half-hour.
- Even if a time slot is full, we recommend joining the waitlist if you are interested, as people's schedules can change before then!
- You have to register for the site to respond to the opportunity.
- If you will be doing this task in the same car as other family and/or friends, please have them register for the Galaxy platform, upload their vaccine card in 'User Files' and write their full name in the response question section of your sign-up. You do not both need to sign up for the shift.
Feel free to reach out to Volunteer Coordinator, Sammy Monk, at volunteer@jfcs-portland.org with additional questions or concerns.
Thank you!
