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5 people are interested
Community Partner Liaison
ORGANIZATION: Campus Kitchen at UMass Boston
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5 people are interested
Community Partner Liaison
Do you love meeting new people and connecting with your community? Are you interested in working with an innovative non-profit organization? Are you passionate about fighting hunger in the Boston area?
The Campus Kitchen Project is a national leader in community engagement and hunger relief on 53 campuses around the country. Our program empowers the next generation of leaders to implement innovative models for combating hunger, enhancing food systems, and connecting communities. We partner with high schools, colleges, and universities to share on-campus kitchen space, recover food from cafeterias, and engage students as leaders.
This volunteer powered initiative provides opportunities to plan menus, run cooking shifts, organize deliveries, garden, glean, teach nutrition education classes and conduct SNAP outreach.
The Campus Kitchen at UMASS Boston (CKUMB) is excited to offer a new opportunity to join our team as the Community Partner Liaison. This position ensures that we maintain quality communication between our operations and community partners. It would also enable us to reach out to other organizations in the area to form new partnerships.
Time Commitment: 4-8 hours/week, Wednesday mornings/afternoons preferred
Location: UMASS BostonCampus Center 100 Morrissey Blvd. Dorchester, all deliveries are in Dorchester’s Columbia Point neighborhood and are accessible by shuttle
The Community Partner Liaison will:
- Assist with meal deliveries
- Serve meals to partners
- Foster and expand relationships with our community partners
- Attend Leadership Team meetings and planning sessions
- Document and promote community relationships
Benefits:
- Connecting with the local community including great networking opportunities
- Building and enhancing communication techniques
- Making a difference in the community by reducing both hunger and food waste
- Ability to track hours for requirements or internships if needed
Qualifications:
- Friendly and approachable attitude
- Comfortable working independently and as a team
- A sense of humor
- Ability to lift/carry pans of food (20 lbs.)
- Ability to stand for extended time to serve meals
How to Get Involved:
Please send a note of interest to Rebecca Driscoll, CKUMB Program Coordinator, at rdriscoll@campuskitchens.org with "Community Partner Liaison" in the subject line
More opportunities with Campus Kitchen at UMass Boston
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Campus Kitchen at UMass Boston
Location:
University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125, US
Mission Statement
The mission of The Campus Kitchens Project is to use service as a tool to:
- Strengthen Bodies by using existing resources to meet hunger and nutritional needs in our community;
- Empower Minds by providing leadership and service learning opportunities to students, and educational benefits to adults, seniors, children, and families in need; and
- Build Communities by fostering a new generation of community-minded adults through resourceful and mutually beneficial partnerships among students, social service agencies, businesses and schools.
Description
TheCampus Kitchens Projectis an emerging leader in community service for students and resourceful anti-hunger programs for communities around the country.
What we do is kind of a no-brainer. We know there are people in every community who need nourishing meals. And, we know that every college campus has unserved food in its dining halls and brilliant students in its classrooms. So we put them all together.
We empower thousands of students each year to recycle food from their cafeterias, turn these donations into nourishing meals, and deliver those meals to those who need it most.
So far, we're at 31 schools around the country: big schools and small schools; rural and urban; colleges and high schools.
The best part is that students run the whole show. They plan the menus, get the food, run the cooking shifts, organize the drivers, and teach culinary skills to unemployed adults. Then, they keep track of all of the paperwork (so we know everything’s being done safely), organize fundraisers, develop curriculum, and recruit new students to get involved. They accomplish an incredible amount of work every day.
Come volunteer with us, or help get a Campus Kitchen started at your school!
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
University of Massachusetts, Boston100 Morrissey Blvd. Campus Center 2404Boston, MA 02125
DATE POSTED
July 13, 2016
SKILLS
- Networking
- People Skills
- Capacity Planning
- Relationship Building
- Food Delivery / Distribution
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- 4-8 hours/week
- ability to lift 20 lbs