Our volunteers are essential for the success of edible flint! Volunteer by assisting with our Distribution Day event, helping with the Food Garden Tour, working on our Demonstration Garden, and much more! Want to take on a larger leadership role? Join one of our four work groups. Fill out the application below to get started!
Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Team Member – edible flint
Persons to help facilitate distribution of vegetable kits and products to customers on June 6th. Shifts begin at 8 a.m. and continue to 6:30 pm. Pre-ordered and prepaid customers will pick up vegetable transplants, bags of compost, and water filters in a drive-through process. Early volunteer teams will assemble the vegetable kits and prepare the drive-through site. Distribution teams will guide the customers and place the orders into the customer’s open trunk. This is a volunteer position requiring customer service skills, ability to follow written and verbal directions and work collaboratively and safely as a team.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Date: June 6th, 2020. This is an unpaid volunteer position. Those that are interested, please fill out the form provided here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfro1oYYmRTPLT-P06UGOWl5r-_AZeyeABSjF5frds9VE6xFw/viewform?usp=sf_link
All volunteers must download, review our health forms provided here :
pre-work-health-checklist-cd-version-3.30.2020__1_.pdf
Register and respond to health query 30 minutes before start of shift: 3216 M. L. King, registration table at driveway between Neighborhood Engagement Hub (3216 M.L. King) and Holy Trinity Church. Questions? 810 348-5332
Thank you for helping the many community members who want to grow their family’s vegetables!
Edible Flint Team
Persons to help facilitate distribution of vegetable kits and products to customers on June 6th. Shifts begin at 8 a.m. and continue to 6:30 pm. Pre-ordered and prepaid customers will pick up vegetable transplants, bags of compost, and water filters in a drive-through process. Early volunteer teams will assemble the vegetable kits and prepare the drive-through site. Distribution teams will guide the customers and place the orders into the customer’s open trunk. This is a volunteer position requiring customer service skills, ability to follow written and verbal directions and work collaboratively and safely as a team.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrating social distancing when collecting customer information and placing orders into cars.
- Guiding Customers. Customers will stay in their vehicle and instruct volunteer(s) on where they should put the garden order.
- Reporting if any customer or co-worker fails to follow guidelines set for distribution day.
Qualifications:
- Self-motivated and able to manage multiple projects and keep timeline.
- Healthy and able to wear a facemask at all times.
- Ability to stand, sit or lift for 2 hours
- Ability to lift 30 lbs.
- Skilled with communications via phone or personal interactions.
Date: June 6th, 2020. This is an unpaid volunteer position. Those that are interested, please fill out the form provided here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfro1oYYmRTPLT-P06UGOWl5r-_AZeyeABSjF5frds9VE6xFw/viewform?usp=sf_link
All volunteers must download, review our health forms provided here :
pre-work-health-checklist-cd-version-3.30.2020__1_.pdf
Register and respond to health query 30 minutes before start of shift: 3216 M. L. King, registration table at driveway between Neighborhood Engagement Hub (3216 M.L. King) and Holy Trinity Church. Questions? 810 348-5332
Thank you for helping the many community members who want to grow their family’s vegetables!
Edible Flint Team
The link above takes you to Genesee Serves - a local connection for volunteers in our community. You can also sign up and get information via our Facebook Event. Follow us at edible flint!