Volunteer With Us
Volunteers are vital to the continuance and completion of many, many tasks here at Wyoming Food for Thought Project. From packing weekend food bags, delivering the bags, organizing the food room, and working in the garden, to processing and dehydrating donated goods in the kitchen, every job is important.
We would like to personally thank each and every volunteer who has come through the door. You are getting us one step closer to alleviating hunger within Natrona County with every hour you have dedicated to us. Thank you.
To review the current volunteer opportunities available at Food for Thought, scroll down. The links provided will redirect you to a volunteer login page where you can sign up to volunteer, and also allows you to track your volunteer donations, hours, or miles contributed to the Wyoming Food for Thought Project.
Current Volunteer Opportunities
Delivery/Pickup Driver
Description: Help with various weekly donation pickups and/or school deliveries around town. Donation pickups can happen at different times throughout the week, while school/home deliveries take place Thursday mornings between 9am-noon.
Food Bag Packers
Description: Set up the room, organize the food menu and pack weekend food bags with us every Wednesday starting at 3pm. Everyone is welcome.
Garden Volunteers
Description: Help with various garden projects and tasks at any of our community garden sites. Tasks may include starting plants, tilling garden beds, building raised beds, installing rain barrels, weeding and more. Some gardening experience preferred but not required. We can teach and train anyone interested in getting their hands dirty and learning how to garden.
Kitchen Assistant
Description: Help with various kitchen tasks, such as repacking and dehydrating food, making TV-style dinners, canning/preservation and much more. Experience preferred but not required. We can train and teach anyone willing to help and learn these tasks.
Market Volunteers
Description: Volunteers are always wanted for our various markets, from helping with set up to coordinating vendors, managing our booth and more! No experience required.
Organizing Volunteers
Description: Help with repackaging various donated bulk items, such as bagels, bread, raisins, peanut butter etc. or weighing and putting away donated food. Availability for this volunteer opportunity is flexible.
Special Events Volunteers
Description: Help with various fundraising or special events. This could include set up, tasks leading up to the event or the event itself.
Weekly Office Volunteer
Description: Help with various office tasks. This can include various computer tasks such as putting together thank you's to donors and volunteers, mailings, printing and distributing flyers, weighing and putting food donations away, prepping for events, assisting in the kitchen and more.
Other Ways to Get Involved
We have a few alternative ways of getting involved, in case you may want to be involved, but do not have the time or finances. Scroll through the options below, and see if there is an appropriate fit to what you are most interested in.
Experience Works
We were recently an approved organization for Experience Works, that offers employment and training services through the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) to low-income older workers. Volunteers over 55 years of age are encouraged to apply! You must work 18 hours a week, will receive a biweekly paycheck (and workers compensation, if necessary), and more!
For more information, call Johnathon Schmidt at 307-251-7847.
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Volunteer Forum
Want to ask a group of volunteers about volunteering with us? Maybe you have a gardening question, or could use help building something? Perhaps you have a skill you can offer to our organization.
Consider checking out our Skilled Worker Volunteer Forum, an online community where our volunteers can network and share special skills to help one another thrive. Everyone is welcome to participate.