Bonney Lake Food Bank Gleaning Project Coordinator VISTA

Full Time
Washington, DC
Posted
Job description
The Bonney Lake Food Bank is an innovative organization that explores the entire food system to solve access barriers, advocate for racial and food justice, promote health and wellness, and contribute to the region's economic development. Our food bank is customer-focused where dignity is paramount, and organizational decisions are driven by the customer experience about access, equity, and inclusion. Our organizational culture involves innovation that drives our daily work. We call our food bank “The Market” because it looks like a metropolitan market, is clean, organized, and inviting. It provides our clients with a choice model offering the best quality nutritional food. In addition to in person shopping, we offer delivery to those customers that are homebound, and grocery pickup at refrigerated smart lockers. We strive to provide fresh, nutritional, dietary, and culturally inclusive foods. Like many food banks and emergency food networks, the Bonney Lake Food Bank experienced an incredible client count (increase of 700%) and volume growth due to COVID-19This growth continued in 2022 as we served more than 210,000 people. In this position, Bonney Lake Food Bank partners with Harvest Against Hunger (HAH), a program incubator and catalyst utilizing a team of AmeriCorps members in the Harvest VISTA program who build sustainable, community food security programs. These range from gleaning projects to regional food security assessments, to expanding community-run gardens and food bank farms. AmeriCorps members serve with their projects for a year: recruiting and coordinating volunteers, addressing challenges and management related to food supply chain, creating systems to collect data and evaluate programs, and growing organizations through storytelling, development, and fundraising. They benefit from professional development and team building in a nationwide cohort. HAH and the Harvest VISTA Program aims to involve the larger community in addressing food insecurity.



Member Duties : The AmeriCorps member will be responsible for creating a sustainable model for a gleaning program. The member will be tasked with recruiting new and expanding community partners such as farmers, schools, restaurants, etc. They will be tasked with increasing volunteer engagement and executing effective communication plan for engaging and educating the community as well as developing guides for the organization.


Program Benefits : Living Allowance , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Education award upon successful completion of service , Childcare assistance if eligible , Relocation Allowance , Health Coverage* .



Terms :
Permits attendance at school during off hours , Car recommended , Permits working at another job during off hours .


Service Areas :
Environment , Health , Hunger .


Skills :
Team Work , Public Speaking , Communications , Writing/Editing , General Skills , Community Organization , Non-Profit Management , Environment , Recruitment .




SUMMARY

Program Type:

AmeriCorps VISTA



Program

Bonney Lake Food Bank Gleaning Project Coordinator VISTA



Program Start/End Date

08/28/2023 - 08/27/2024



Work Schedule
Full Time



Education level

Some college



Age Requirement

Minimum: 18 Maximum: None


Program Locations
WASHINGTON


Accepting Applications

From 05/11/2023 To 08/09/2023



Contact
Maria Mendez-Francisco

1201 1st Ave S

Seattle WA 98134

2062360408

maria@harvestagainsthunger.org

harvestagainsthunger.org



Listing ID
118787

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