General Information

  • Volunteer Opportunities / Responsibilities: Dinner and Brunch Service
    Activities: Set up dining room, help with food prep, serve dinner, wash dishes and help clean the kitchen and dining room area after the meal.
    Hours: daily, 5:30pm-8:00pm (dinner); weekends, 9:00am-12:00pm (brunch)
    Minimum Commitment: once a month

    On-call volunteers: If there are not enough volunteers to serve dinner, or in the event of snow or ice, on-call volunteers will be contacted to fill in at the last minute.

    Clothing Sorters/Distributors
    Activities: Volunteers sort donations accumulated throughout the week, stock them in the Clothes Closet and help keep the racks and shelves neat and orderly.
    Hours: Mon & Fri, 9:00am-11:00am (sorters); Wed 9:45am-12:00pm (distributors)

    Resource Center
    Activities: Assist Resource Center staff with distributing mail, toiletries and bus tokens to clients, filing and completing paperwork, and helping with other tasks. Volunteers must be 21 years old, people oriented and have basic clerical skills.
    Hours: daily, 1:00-2:00pm and 6:00-7:30pm
    Minimum commitment: every other week

    Food Pickup
    Activities: Pick up food donations from area grocery stores/restaurants and deliver them to Shepherd’s Table. You must be able to provide your own transportation.
    Minimum commitment: once a week

    Eye Clinic
    Activities: Assist Eye Clinic staff with greeting clients, filing and completing paperwork. Volunteers must be 21 years old.
    Hours: Tues, 10:00am-4:00pm
  • Types of Volunteers Needed: individual/adult; adult groups of less than 5; adult groups of 6 or more, including corporate teams; adult groups of 6 or more, including corporate teams
  • Hours Needed: business hours during the week; evenings during the week; daytime on the weekend