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Volunteer Opportunities

Scheduling is easy.  We offer projects on weekdays, evenings and week-ends to accommodate your schedule.  Just one day can make a difference to a family or individual in need.  There is no lengthy orientation or time commitment.  You will join a project on the day that you come in.

 

Individual Opportunities 

Labeling
- An easy way to start, by sorting and labeling. Learn more.


**Court-Ordered Community Service - We do offer Community Service for Court Credit for individuals 18 and older.  Please call the Volunteer Office for hours and additional details.
 

Harvesting
- Kids of all ages can plant seeds, pick weeds, and harvest at the Incredible Edible Park in Irvine. Learn more.

 

 

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Speaker's Bureau
- Help spread the word as an Ambassador at volunteer and health fairs and community groups. Learn more.

 

 

Special Events
- Join us to help at our wine tasting, golf event, food drives, or food rescue. Learn more.

 

 

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Lend your personal skills
- If you have computer, office, communication, logistics, driving, or management skills. Learn more.

 

Group Activities

Corporate Program
- Groups of 5-50 can help us sort and label food every Tuesday through Friday.  Learn more.

 

 

Harvesting
- Kids of all ages, and groups of 15-40 can join us to plant, weed, and harvest at the Incredible Edible Park in Irvine.  Learn more.

 

 

Saturday Labeling
- Groups of 5-20 can help us sort and label food every Saturday.  Learn more.

 

 

Special Events
- We need your teams to help us with food drives, our golf tournament, special events, and convention food rescue throughout the year.  Learn more.



Hungry? Find Food.

Second Harvest Food Bank works with partner agencies to distribute food throughout Orange County. Find an agency near you that can help.

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Did you know...?

Over 10,000 volunteers helped Second Harvest Food Bank last year alone!

Volunteer Quotes

'Thank you so much for allowing us this opportunity to assist you and your team in what you guys do daily.  We think the time you guys take to this is AMAZING, this is such a great institution!

Our team learned so much from you guys and we had so much fun doing it.  The feeling that we got after setting this record breaking production of 1,776 boxes is UNFORGETTABLE.'

Shihlee

Bank of America

Bank of America participated in our program on June 16, 2010 with 33 volunteers working 99 volunteer hours.