La Soupe Volunteer: Food Runner, Kitchen Help, Culinary Education

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La Soupe bridges the gap between food waste and hunger. Our chef based model utilizes our volunteer network to rescue perishables from farms, grocers and wholesalers. Our highly talented transform team of chefs and volunteers transform this food into healthy soupes and meals. Our soupes and meals are distributed to roughly 100 share partners that feed the food insecure and are available to purchase at our retail storefront. We have a well established program of rescuing prepared overages from restaurants and catering and deliver directly to agencies that feed the hungry.

Volunteers are a vital part of La Soupe's mission to Rescue, Transform, and Share. Every time you volunteer, you will leave knowing that you have helped to provide 15,5000 servings per week for our neighbors living in food insecurity. Since 2016, over 200 active volunteers contributed 9,270+ hours of service to La Soupe. We need volunteers every day to help keep our 81 share agencies fed.

For Food Runner volunteer opportunities we use Food Rescue US. You will pick up surplus food from our Food Donors (grocers, restaurants, etc.) and deliver it to La Soupe. Or, from La Soupe, deliver to our receiving agencies. Typically this will take an hour of your time.

For Kitchen Help volunteering we use a system called Duplie to schedule and self manage kitchen shifts. Come to La Soupe and help in various ways - sorting, cleaning, storing produce, chopping and light food prep. Although currently we do not have volunteering in house, if you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email her at alison@lasoupe.org.

For Culinary Education volunteering we work on a manual schedule and you can contact kristen@lasoupe.org.