for ADULTS

There are as many ways to contribute to our work as there are volunteers. This list provides an overview of the areas where we can use the most help. After you review it, complete the attached Adult Volunteer Application and email it to our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@ceresproject.org. She’ll contact you to explore the best way for you to help.

Delivery

Delivering the nutritious, bountiful food to our clients every week is a priceless job, one in which you experience face-to-face the magic of The Ceres Community Project. We deliver to 35 to 45 families each week, from East Santa Rosa to Occidental and Healdsburg to Petaluma.

Each Thursday around 5:00 p.m. drivers pick up bags filled with nearly a week’s worth of food, deliver to our clients, pick up last week’s clean, empty containers, and then drop off the empty containers at the kitchen by the following Monday evening. Depending on where you are delivering, this might take 45 minutes to 2 hours. You can deliver weekly, every other week, once a month, or fill in when needed.

Event Support

The Ceres Community Project sponsors the Food as Medicine Lecture Series every other month, has a booth at the Sebastopol Farmers Market twice a month, and tables at many other events during the year. We are always in need of people who are available to assist at these events with set up and breakdown, selling our food and other products, and talking with folks at the events about Ceres’ work. If you love interacting with people, this might be the right job for you

Are You a Chef?

If you have professional, whole foods, production-cooking experience, we’d love to talk with you about joining us in the kitchen. You must love working with young people, have a sense of humor, and know that there are many different ways to chop an onion! We generally have two or three adult chefs in the kitchen during each shift and are working to put together a team of people who can share this responsibility.

Chefs supervise, mentor and teach, supporting our teens in developing skills, competence and confidence in the kitchen. If we’re short-handed, they also wash dishes, chop onions or whatever else is needed to have the kitchen run smoothly.

Client Relations Liaison

If you have counseling or hospice training, or have personal, immediate experience with life threatening illness, being a Client Relations Liaison is a wonderful way to contribute. The Client Relations volunteer holds a small number of clients, ensuring that they are receiving as much benefit as possible from their time with us. You meet in person with a new client and then maintain regular contact with them to offer support, ensure that the food we are sending is maximally supportive of their healing, and communicate their needs to the kitchen staff.

Extraneous but Essential Opportunities

Like any non-profit, there are many behind the scenes jobs to keep a project like The Ceres Community Project going. Whatever your skill, we can probably use it. For a very beginning list we need volunteers who can help in these ways: office assistance for mailings and other projects, event coordination, grant writing, public relations and outreach, fund-raising, budgeting and financial management, gardening assistance . . .

If you are interested in volunteering,
please contact our
Assistant Volunteer Coordinator Kosima Grundy
with your interests at
volunteer@ceresproject.org
or by calling
707·829·5833

2012 Volunteer Orientation Evenings
Ceres Community Project
7351 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol

Tuesdays, 5:30 – 6:30

January 17
February 21
March 20
April 17
May 15
June 19
July 17
August 21
Sept. 18
Oct. 16
Nov. 20
Dec. 11 (second Tuesday)

This is an opportunity to understand the big picture of the Ceres Community Project, learn more about the food we prepare and who we serve, meet staff and other volunteers, ask questions and have a taste of a delicacy that our chefs prepare! All teen and adult volunteers are invited and encouraged to attend.

2012
Volunteer Orientation
Evenings