Pantry / Warehouse Volunteers
The Job: sorting & stocking pantry shelves; sorting & packing deli, dairy, meat and produce from stores; staging for food distribution, beginning and end of shift cleaning
Shifts: Monday - Thursdays: 2-3 hour daytime shifts
Food Packers
The Job: shopping and packing bags for food distribution, beginning and end of shift cleaning
Shifts: Monday - Thursdays: 3pm – 5pm
Food Recovery Volunteers
The Job: Curbside Assistant: prepare carts, greet clients, load groceries in vehicles. Shopping Assistant: assist clients as they shop in the pantry, monitor client appointment time, bag groceries, and load in client vehicle. Beginning and end of shift cleaning
Shifts: Monday - Thursdays: 12:30pm – 3:30pm, Thursday Evenings: 5:15pm -6:30pm, Last Saturday of every month: 10am
Financial Assistance Volunteers
The job: Meets with clients (virtually) to provide financial assistance with past due rent & utilities. Also work to assist clients in connecting to other area resources that might be beneficial to them.
Skills needed: Alignment with WWCM values, administrative (paperwork, phone calls), computer (utilize internet resources & client database), ability to explore resources (make phone calls, check eligibility, research, etc), discerning good listeners.
Commitment: Three hour shifts, 1-2 times per week, Monday -Thursdays
Front Desk Volunteers
The job: Answer phones and messages during WWCM office hours. Scheduling clients for food pick up appointments, directing callers to appropriate staff members as needed.
Skills needed: Alignment with WWCM values, administrative (paperwork, phone calls), computer (utilize internet resources & client database), discerning good listener.
Commitment: Three hour shifts, 1-2 times per week, Monday -Thursdays and Wednesday evenings.
- If you would like to volunteer, please review & complete our required Volunteer Guidelines, Interest Areas & Liability Waiver & email back to volunteer@wwcm.org.
- Note: you will need to physically sign the waiver.
- Once your forms are submitted, you will receive an email with further instructions (watching a required orientation video and how to sign up for volunteer shifts).
- Volunteers must be 18 or older unless part of a pre-arranged volunteer group (school, scouts, church youth group, etc.). For information on how your group can get involved, please contact volunteer@wwcm.org.
- At this time WWCM does not provide court-ordered community service opportunities but please go here for more resource information: https://thevolunteercenter.org/community-service/
Nothing from April 30, 2025 to August 30, 2025.
Citizen of the Year Award
Honoring our Volunteers
Partner Agency with the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. WWCM distributed 150,646 pounds of food in 2021-2022
