Did you know that food insecurity impacts over 1 million people in Alabama?
1 in 4 children in our area struggle with hunger.
We need your help to end hunger and #FeedBHM!
We have lots of different ways to get involved…
WAYS TO SERVE
FOOD DISTRIBUTION: DRIVE-THRU SITES
Our Drive-Thru Sites provide food support by providing a box of fresh produce, canned food, meat, dairy and bread into the trunk or back seat of a vehicle to feed a family of four for one week.
Volunteers assist in these ways:
- Direct Drive-Thru traffic
- Continuous disinfecting of facilities
- Unload, move and organize food supplies
- Package food into boxes for distribution
- Provide lunch or snacks for onsite volunteers
- Record data into a computer from participants
- Load boxes of food into cars as they come through Drive-Thru
- Pray for recipients as they leave
FOOD DISTRIBUTION: HUB
The Grace Klein Community office serves as a HUB for all food donations and purchases. Volunteers assist in these ways:
- Sort food donations and purchases
- Organize food in bulk for Distribution Partner pick ups
- Load food in Distribution Partner vehicles/trucks
MEALS FOR FAMILIES
Emergency ready-to-eat meals are helpful for families in crisis due to illness, a sick family member, or an unexpected death, etc. Volunteers prepare healthy and easy to heat meals that are stored in freezers and are delivered to the families, in need of support, by volunteers.
For detailed instruction on how you can serve through preparing frozen meals for families, click here: How to Prepare Frozen Meal Boxes for Grace Klein Community
FOOD BOX DELIVERY DRIVERS
A delivery driver volunteers to deliver food boxes or emergency ready to heat meals to “high risk” families and individuals.
“High risk” means the food recipient is home bound, for any number of reasons, and unable to secure the food they need.
Volunteers assist in these ways:
- Picking up food boxes and delivering to assigned addresses
- Picking up emergency meals and delivering to assigned addresses
- Encouraging the person who receives the food through a phone call or text
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
“The House on the Hill” is used to equip and empower women to thrive through an intimate relationship with Jesus, to connect resources for jobs, childcare, tangible needs and groceries, to find healing from their pain and forgiveness towards men/family relationships etc. to grow in trusting others, and to learn their gifts and abilities so they can also contribute to the lives of others. With many people coming and going from the home, we appreciate weekly support to maintain the facility. Volunteers assist in these ways:- Organizing unexpected donations
- Preparing diaper/wipe orders
- Creating toiletry kits
- Assisting with routine house cleaning
- Maintaining the yard
- Watering plants
WE SEW LOVE
Through creativity and resourcefulness, we upcycle (convert) donated clothing/fabric into items that can enrich the lives of those in need… at home, in our neighborhood, in our country, and in places around the globe.
Items volunteers create include:
- Children’s items – dresses, shorts, underwear.
- Infant items – undershirts, bibs, hats, diaper inserts, gowns, leggings, crib mats
- Teen girls – menstruation kits (shoulder bag filled with 2pr undies, 3 reusable maxi-pads, 3 regular pads)
- Burial Gowns – premier to pre-teen sizes
- Covid – face masks
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
Maintaining the behind the scenes of a growing organization requires shared online platforms, detailed oriented volunteers, spreadsheet lovers, scribes, graphic designers, social media gurus, and those who are willing and flexible to work from home.
Volunteers assist in these ways:
- Writing thank you notes
- Prayer support
- Errand running
- Coupon shopping
- Designing social media content
- Sharing, liking and commenting on social media content
- Capturing and editing videos
- Entering data into spreadsheets from food rescue teams
- Building new partnerships with local business leaders
- Designing flyers, brochures, documents for presentations
- Preparing partner packets
- Event planning
- Inviting friends to events and serve opportunities
- Phone calls and emailing for data gathering
- Filing
