Volunteer

Deepen your company’s involvement in the community and strengthen your corporate social responsibility goals. Share the opportunity to volunteer with your co-workers and colleagues.

Team Building

• Increase employee engagement through a shared volunteer experience. Build camaraderie within your team while involving your employees in your corporate social responsibility goals.

Celebrate your Day of Caring or Global Month of Service by volunteering!

• Invite your co-workers and their family members to join you in this special day. Make it a tradition each year for your company and invite partners from others branches or even your competitors!

• All groups must make a group reservation.
• We require that all volunteers register with Food Lifeline even if your company has its own process for tracking and registering employee volunteer activities.
• We encourage you to invite your community partners, association members and family to join you in service.
• We invite you to take and share photos of your team during your volunteer session. Remember to tag @FoodLifeline or add #FoodLifeline! If you plan to bring your own photographer/videographer, let us know and we’ll connect you with our Marketing team for assistance.
• If you need to modify your reservation, please contact us immediately at volunteer@foodlifeline.org.

• Many employers match their employee volunteer hours or donations. Yours might too – check with your supervisor.
• Create a virtual volunteer experience for your team by hosting a virtual food drive.
• Join Food Frenzy! A friendly competition between businesses, community groups, sports teams, and more to help end hunger through creative fundraising, volunteering, and team-building activities.

Food Lifeline invites you to volunteer at our Hunger Solution Center! You will make a big impact in only a couple of hours! We offer sessions on weekday mornings and afternoons, Saturdays, and some evenings. If you are new to Food Lifeline, please review each of our pro tips and guidelines below.

• We welcome volunteers 10 years and older! Please bring a signed Parent/Guardian Form for volunteers under 18. Forms are valid for the calendar year.
• Please arrive 15 minutes early. All volunteer sessions are located at 815 S 96th St, Seattle, WA 98108.

Food Lifeline welcomes community groups of all varieties! You will make a big impact in only a couple of hours! We offer sessions on weekday mornings and afternoons, Saturdays, and some evenings. If this will be your first time bringing your group in, please review each of our pro tips and guidelines below.

• We welcome volunteers 10 years and older! Please bring a signed Parent/Guardian Form for volunteers under 18. Forms are valid for the calendar year.
• Youth groups (5 volunteers or more under the age of 18) must have at least 1 chaperone for every 5 youths.
• You can request a volunteer session up to three months in the future. Submit a request as soon as possible for your preferred date and time. For more info, click “How to make a group reservation”
• Saturdays and evenings are very popular! For these sessions we limit groups to a maximum of 20 volunteers and can only host groups for one of these sessions per month. If your top choice of session isn’t available, please note we have a great need for volunteer assistance throughout the year.
• Volunteers are permitted to take short breaks, but please refrain from taking breaks as a group during your volunteer session. We are not able to host group lunches or other on-site events outside of your volunteer time.
• Please expect to volunteer for the entire session. We cannot accommodate groups who need to leave early.
• If your group plans to travel by bus, please make note in the “Additional Requests/Comments” section when you register your group
• We encourage you to take photos! Please tag us in your social media posts, @FoodLifeline on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, or use #FoodLifeline.

• Verification of hours via website
• Formal letter with verified hours and letterhead

Please notify a Volunteer Coordinator before your session if your school requires the following:

• Signed hours of completion

• Volunteers must complete 24 service hours within the last 12 months
• Please provide your first, last name, email and date needed to volunteer@foodlifeline.org to receive a signed PDF letter of recommendation on a Food Lifeline letterhead.