In Partnership With The CCA Regional Food Bank
Serving Clatsop County Food Pantries
Together Solving Hunger
Become a Volunteer Neighborhood Coordinator
Welcome to the North Coast Community Food Project of Oregon!
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Becoming a Volunteer Neighborhood Coordinator (NC) is one of the most important volunteer opportunities we have to offer. This is actually where the Food Project really begins. It is also amazingly simple! Before volunteering as a Neighborhood Coordinator, you probably have a few questions. We have answered some of the main ones below.
What does a Neighborhood Coordinator (NC) do?
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A Volunteer Neighborhood Coordinator signs up new food donors for the food project. This can be done many different ways. A simple way to start is with who you already know in your area. You can sign up friends in the area via social media. You can go house to house in your neighborhood to sign up new food donors. You can sign up food donors at your place of employment.
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Each donor gets one of our re-usable yellow bags to take shopping with them to collect food and other essential items from our list of "most needed items list." Once a month, on Pickup Day, Neighborhood Coordinators and Food Project Volunteers re-visit the food donors to collect the yellow bags, which will then be transported to the CCA Regional Food Bank distribution center in Warrenton or local food pantry.
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You will also be contacting your Volunteer Food Donors about a week before Pickup Day, letting them know that you or other volunteers will be by to pickup the filled bag, dropping off a new one, and transporting the filled bags to the CCA Regional Food Bank distribution center in Warrenton or local food pantry.
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That's all there is to it!
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Of course we do not expect you do this alone. We have great material training and seasoned volunteers to learn about the Food Project. We will even go door to door your first time out if you would like us to.
What do we do on Pickup Day?
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Pickup Day is when you and other volunteers collect the filled Food Donor bags. Our pickup days are always on the last Thursday of the month. These bags are then taken to the CCA Regional Food Bank distribution center in Warrenton or your local food pantry.
As you meet more neighbors and other volunteers in the Food Project, we hope our vision of solving hunger and building community here in Clatsop County begins to grow on you. Giving of ourselves for something larger than us is what the Food Project is all about. We hope you will enjoy the journey as together we solve hunger here in Clatsop County.
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If you would like to become a new Volunteer Neighborhood Coordinator please fill out the form below and one of our volunteers will be in touch with you.
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Thank you for helping Solve Hunger here in Clatsop County!