Our Daily Bread - Soup Kitchen and Social Center

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Homeless & Housing
Hunger

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1730 Race StreetCincinnati, OH 45202 United States

Website:

http://www.ourdailybread.us

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Organize a Canned Food Drive

Flexible Schedule | Cincinnati, OH 45202

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SIGN-UP FOR OFF-SITE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.ourdailybread.us/donate-food/ Are you interested in helping fiil Our Daily Bread's pantry? Consider organizing a canned food drive benefiting Our Daily Bread!!! Determine a date range for your canned food drive and let us know when as well as check with us to see what we are most of need of at that time. Participants post flyers out in the community, on social media and via email. We have a flier that can be used or feel free to create your own. Participants collect items Participants arrange a drop off with Kathy Schickel our Director of Operations ( kathy@ourdailybread.us) Participants deliver the items. Our Daily Bread delivery hours are Tuesday-Thursday, 8:30am - 2pm and Monday and Friday 8:30-Noon. Please come to our donation door in the back alley. If you are coming south on Race, make a left on Elder, and then an immediate right behind our building. Follow the arrows to the green door and ring the bell. Someone will help you unload and you can be on your way. No parking necessary! Be sure to snap photos of your participants and email them to me so we can share on our social media sites!

Date Posted: 2024-10-14
Make and Deliver Home Baked Treats and Salty Snacks

Flexible Schedule | Cincinnati, OH 45202

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SIGN-UP FOR OFF-SITE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.ourdailybread.us/donate-food/ We feed people, and we do it with dignity. We have a wonderful off-site volunteer opportunity available for groups as a one-off or ongoing activity- church groups, schools, companies, families, sports teams, and more have enjoyed delivering treats to our soup kitchen guests in need. Home baked treats and salty snacks are included in our Snack Bags that are given to guests along with their meal so they have something to eat later in the day. Each sign-up slot is for 50 treats or snacks. If you are donating more, please sign up for additional slots. Examples: Muffins Little Debbie Cookies Brownies Pretzels Chips Peanut butter/cheese crackers Nuts Trail mix Slim Jims Donation Drop Off Information Donation Hours: Monday-Friday 7:00AM - Noon No parking necessary! We are located at 1730 Race Street across from Findlay Market in Cincinnati, Ohio’s Over the Rhine neighborhood. When delivering food items, please come to our donation door in the back alley behind our building (map below). If you are heading south on Race, go past our building to the first drive on the left (parking lot). Make the next left onto the alley, and pull up to the green door on our yellow building. Ring the doorbell with the big green painted arrow next to it. Someone will help you unload, and you can be on your way! If you’d like to coordinate your donation with our current needs, contact Kathy Schickel, Director of Operations: Call (513) 621-6364 x 15 or email kathy@ourdailybread.us

Date Posted: 2024-10-14
Making 100+ Sandwiches for Soup Kitchen

Flexible Schedule | Cincinnati, OH 45202

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SIGN-UP FOR OFF-SITE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.ourdailybread.us/donate-food/ We feed people, and we do it with dignity. We have a wonderful off-site volunteer opportunity available for groups as a one-off or ongoing activity- church groups, schools, companies, families, sports teams, and more have enjoyed making 100+ sandwiches to be delivered and served to soup kitchen guests in need. In addition to hot meals, our guests also receive "snack bags" with sandwiches, fruit, snacks, and treats to eat later in the day. We distribute up to 600 sandwiches a day, Monday-Friday, so it is a huge help for community members to assemble PB&J or meat sandwiches at home. Any type of bread and meat are accepted! However, our guests prefer white bread and turkey. For a contactless drop-off, we're happy to unload your trunk when you pull up to our donation door! We are always grateful to be able to give guests some extra food for later in the day.

Date Posted: 2024-10-14
Soup Kitchen Volunteers- On Site

Flexible Schedule | Cincinnati, OH 45202

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SIGN-UP FOR ON-SITE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.ourdailybread.us/volunteer-3/ We feed people, and we do it with dignity. Soup kitchen guests have the option to come inside to our dining room to eat, or to pick up meals, snack bags, and drinks at a to-go window. Volunteers begin boxing to-go meals at 8:10am, and we start serving at the to-go window and in the dining room at 8:30am to help our guests move quickly through line. On-site volunteers prepare food in our large kitchen, serve meals for our guests in our dining room, and box up meals that we prepare for to-go meals as well as other agencies that provide shelter. They also keep the dining room tidy and clean, bussing and wiping down tables. In addition to meals, guests also receive "snack bags" with sandwiches, fruit, snacks, and treats to eat later in the day. Volunteers assemble these bags every day. We understand that many volunteers have preferences of how they like to spend their volunteer time. While we try to respect these preferences when possible, there are certain tasks that need to be completed each day if we are to successfully serve our guests. We request that volunteers prioritize the following tasks before moving on to the other jobs (such as cooking) that they prefer. · Dishing food on the serving line · Packaging meals and transporting them on carts to the to-go window · Stuffing bags with forks and napkins for to-go meals to be added · Wrapping pastries · Assembling snack bags Most volunteers will not engage directly with the public. A few volunteers each shift will be in the dining room, but it is not required. They provide guests with trays and utensils to go through the serving line, or they bus tables. We ask for individuals to make a weekly commitment, choosing one day per week when they have the greatest availability. On-site shifts are Monday-Friday, 8:00AM-Noon. There is no weekend, afternoon or evening availability. The minimum age is 18 years, 16 to 17 year olds must be accompanied by an adult. Students 15 years and younger may choose an off-site volunteer opportunity.

Date Posted: 2024-09-12

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Mission Statement

OUR VISION Every person in the Greater Cincinnati community has sufficient access to food, essential social services and a safe place of belonging. OUR MISSION To provide stability and hope to guests in need by offering meals, hospitality and services in a safe, respectful environment, located in Over the Rhine.

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Our Daily Bread is Cincinnati’s largest soup kitchen, open since 1985. We serve 300+ hot, nutritious, free meals five days a week to neighbors who do not have a safe way to store or cook food for themselves, primarily people experiencing homelessness. Our guests are encouraged to go through the lunch line as many times as they need to get their fill. We also distribute shelf-stable bagged meals for guests to have something to eat during evenings and weekends.

Our soup kitchen operates with the support of our community- 100% of the food we serve is donated or rescued, sparing thousands of pounds of usable food from landfills each year. We partner with many friends around Cincinnati to bring food through our doors, like bakeries, restaurants, and grocery stores that donate food they are unable to use; individuals who transport rescued food around the tristate; or youth who run canned food drives at their schools.

We host hundreds of volunteers each year who transport rescued food and prepare and serve meals to our guests. Each soup kitchen shift requires 10-15 volunteers, giving people from all walks of life an opportunity to truly connect with their neighbors.

In 2021, we served 160,076 meals using 228,972 pounds of rescued or donated food and 11,640 volunteer hours.

Our goal is simply to be the best hosts we can be to the people who need us, striving to honor the dignity, humanity and light in each of our guests.

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by Darci W. (2023-03-15 06:58:56.0)

I’d love to share this and most likely recommend many opportunities just like this. However, I don’t usually share my life on social media but that could change.

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by Andrea E. (2015-11-22 07:04:56.0)

Very friendly and easy to work with! Responded to all my questions very quickly. My son (who is 10 years old) wanted to give back to people that needed a little help, so he organized a neighborhood food drive for Our Daily Bread. After collecting items and delivering them, Our Daily Bread praised our son's hard work on Facebook and he was so proud! We will definitely work with this organization again.

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