Manna Food Center
Volunteer News -
August 2015
 
First Fruits Aug 2011
Ready, Set, Harvest
 
Thank You Food Drive Volunteers

Aug 15 Giant Food Drive
200 volunteers were out over the weekend of August 8th and 9th collecting food for Manna's Back to School Smart Sacks Food Drive.  Manna's Smart Sacks program provides food to more than 2,400 elementary school students and their families every Friday during the school year.
 
16,216 pounds of food was collected at Giant Grocery Stores! Over 800 families will be able to benefit from this food.  We could not have helped so many without our dedicated volunteers.
 
Thank you to all those who volunteered this weekend and to all who made a donation during the food drive.
Harvest Season Is Here!

Oct 1 First fruits
First Fruits Farm and Manna volunteers harvest thousands of pounds of first-rate produce each year for Manna's clients. Come join the fun and help your neighbors in need!  Bring your family, friends, neighbors or co-workers!

Date: Saturday, September 12th  
Time:  8:30am to approximately 11:30am or 12pm.
Please arrive a 15 minutes early for volunteer check in so we can begin promptly at 8:30am.
Where:  First Fruits Farm near Freeland, MD
Farm is about an hour north of Baltimore.  

Volunteers will harvest and bag produce and help load the Manna truck. Volunteers must be 7+ and those under 18 must be accompanied by an adult, 21 or over.

Students can earn SSL hours for this opportunity!


Please note there are limited volunteer spaces available. You will receive a confirmation email once we are able to verify volunteer space.

For questions please contact Katie Sayago at [email protected].

We are also excited to be hosting another Harvest Event in October. Keep a look out for our September Volunteer newsletter to register for that date!

Food Distribution Volunteers Needed
 
Must be 17 years of age or older

SSL hours available

 
Volunteers help with a variety of tasks such as packing and sorting food, bagging produce and meat, assisting clients to their car, and taking in food donations.  
 

Warehouse Vols June 2015
 

This is a great time to earn Student Service Learning (SSL) hours all year long!
 
Volunteers must be 17 years of age 
or older.

 

Volunteers are needed every day Monday through Friday: 9am-3pm.  Volunteers should be comfortable standing on their feet, bending, reaching and lifting, 5 - 25 pounds.  


 

For more information and/or to register for this opportunity, please email Marie at 

[email protected] 
 
and put DISTRO in the subject line.

Community Food Rescue 

Food Runners

 

MCCH
Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless

 

Manna Food Center is the lead agency of Community Food Rescue (CFR), the new coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. CFR, through volunteer efforts, recovers and redistributes perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger.

 

We seek individuals, families, and groups with vehicles and good driving records to join our volunteer food runner corps to transport donated food from food businesses to recipient hunger relief agencies.  

 

Click here for more information and to register to volunteer for CFR's Volunteer Food Runners Program.

 

For questions please contact Cheryl at [email protected].

Join the Manna Ambassador Team!


Must be 18 years of age or older 



Staff a Manna table at outreach events and share information about Manna's mission in the community.   

For more information on these events or to join our
Ambassador team, email [email protected]

Indicate 
AMBASSADOR in the subject line.  

How Manna Fights Hunger

 

We provide food for more than 3,750 families each month at dozens of distribution sites throughout Montgomery County.
 
Smart Sacks
We match businesses & organizations with elementary schools, and together we provide healthy foods to more than 2,400 children every Friday.  
We provide food county-wide to partners such as emergency shelters, group homes, food pantries, and soup kitchens at no charge.
 
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Make a safe and secure donation online now.

 

Your donation makes a significant difference right here in Montgomery County. Manna is one of the most efficient nonprofit organizations in our community, $0.94 cents of every dollar goes directly to feeding families in need. There is no cost to Manna to donate through Network for Good.  
  

 
 Manna Food Center has received a 4-Star Rating by Chairty Navigator, America's Largest Charity Evaluator

 Read Manna's evaluation here.
 
Thank you for fighting hunger and feeding hope in our community!

 

 

Marie Kozlowski

Volunteer Manager 

 

[email protected]

 

Katie Sayago
Development Specialist 
 

[email protected]