Lead Volunteers are the face of Midwest Food Bank during the volunteer groups’ time in our warehouse and are responsible for passionately sharing our mission through their leadership. This role is more often relational than participatory. While lead volunteers can jump in to help, you will spend most of your time bouncing around and having conversations with the participants.
Some of the responsibilities of a Lead Volunteer are to get the project area and products ready to be worked on, introduce Midwest by showing an intro video, sharing information about MFB, and answering questions. Ensuring everyone is signed in and out, explain and facilitate the group through their service project, ensure everyone understands their role in the project, leading the group through clean up after the project is completed, and celebrate at the end of the project. Often the Lead Volunteer will lead groups when staff members are not present.
This role is often performed Monday through Friday 8am-4pm, however, groups do come in on evenings throughout the week and on Saturdays from 9am until Noon. Lead Volunteers are key in allowing evening and Saturday projects to happen.
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
6450 S Belmont Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46217, US
As a faith-based organization, it is the mission of Midwest Food Bank to share the love of Christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition locally and throughout the world and providing disaster relief; all without discrimination.
Midwest Food Bank volunteers are more than our hands and feet; they are fundamental to the success of our organization. We are structured to provide service opportunities and operate through the work of volunteers. They collect, sort, pack, and distribute food and disaster relief donations and remind us every day that our mission could not be achieved without them.
In 2021, more than 25,000 volunteers put in over 317,000 hours of service, the equivalent of over 158 full-time employees. The service of these dedicated volunteers allows Midwest Food Bank to operate efficiently while keeping administrative costs low. They gain the unique perspective that worldwide hunger is prevalent, and their efforts can make a difference.
6450 S Belmont Ave.Indianapolis, IN 46217
February 19, 2024
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