Volunteer Schedule

We host food distributions on the 3rd Friday of each month.

Location: 2535 W Temple St. Los Angeles, CA 90026

Pre-Setup | 9:00am - 11:00am

• Our top volunteers start working hours before anyone else arrives opening the building, picking up supplies, and organizing our U-Haul truck so the day can be a success for everyone

• Become a regular volunteer and you can join our pre-setup team

Event Setup | 11:00am - 1:00pm (When volunteers should arrive)

• While a team of volunteers picks up food donations from local food banks our on-site team begins to set up our tents, tables, pallets, chairs, and more

• Grab one of our safety vests, borrow a pair of work gloves, and let’s get to work

Food Sorting | 1:00pm - 2:00pm

• Around 1 pm our food bank delivery team arrives with a U-Haul truck full of food

• Volunteers unload, sort, and count every item before we begin packing grocery kits

• We buy pizzas for all volunteers around 2:00pm

Food Packing | 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Once the food is sorted and counted our volunteers begin evenly distributing items into 140+ grocery kits

• Another team begins putting up distribution signage and setting up our check-in and pick-up tables

• Some volunteers help organize our pet food distribution by sorting and packing animal food baggies

• At 3:30pm we open the distribution to signups for people lined up waiting for food

Food Distribution (& Pet Food!) | 3:30pm - 5:00pm

• Volunteers move the grocery kits to pallets near our pick-up table for easy distribution

• Another team of volunteers work our pick-up table and begin distributing meal kits to families

• Extra volunteers grab our “Free Food” signs and promote the distribution from the street corner

Tear Down | 5:00pm - 6:00pm

• Once all the food is distributed we begin the cleanup process and pack up our tents, tables, and chairs

After Party | 6:00pm - 8:00pm

• Most months volunteers get together at a local restaurant and share a meal to celebrate a job well done

This program wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of the Los Angeles Food Bank and sustaining members of Atheists United.

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The way to be happy is to make others so."

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