Volunteer Opportunities- Immediate Need It doesn’ t take a big commitment to make a big impact.
Home Delivered Meals
Seeking drivers and runners to serve over 165 meals daily to homebound seniors. Volunteers work in teams of two, a driver and a runner. Each team delivers about 25 meals and the average time to deliver meals is 2 hours, starting at 9:45 am. A person can volunteer one day a month or several days a week.
Dubuque Food Pantry
Volunteers are needed to sort the donated food and grocery items, stack on shelves, and repack these products into individual sized bags or boxes. These tasks are essential to the food pantry’ s day to day operations.
Morning hours are available from 9:00 am- 11:00 am Afternoon hours are available from 1:00 pm- 4:00 pm
Volunteer Treasurer- The Dubuque Food Pantry is also seeking a volunteer treasurer. Assist in processing donations, enter daily reports, generate w9 forms as needed, and maintain organizational practices to conform to Non-profit guidelines. This position requires approximately 4 hours per week.
Presentation Lantern
Weekly tutors- Help make immigrants feel welcome, assist with reading, writing, and speaking English and prepare immigrants for the US Citizenship exam.
Time commitment is 2 hours per week. Mondays or Fridays- 10:00 am- 12:00 pm or 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm Tuesday or Thursday- 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm, 3:00 pm- 5:00 pm or 5:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Volunteer Substitutes- open availability throughout the week during our open hours. Substitutes are called on an as needed basis. Presentation keeps a list of substitutes and calls if a substitute is needed.
Time commitment is 2 hours per shift Monday, Wednesday and Friday- 10:00 am- 3:00 pm Tuesday or Thursday- 5:00 pm- 7:00 pm Friday- 1:00 pm- 7:00 pm.