Needs From: Belmont Office of Community-Engaged Learning and Service

Want to hit the road to make a difference? The Nashville Food Project is recruiting volunteers to deliver meals to our community partners across the city. Each week, TNFP distributes thousands of meals, and with your help, we hope to reach more plates than ever this year! To help us achieve this goal, we are recruiting volunteers for weekly or bi-weekly shifts to deliver meals across Nashville using our distribution vehicles.

When: We're looking for volunteers that can commit to delivering meals on a weekly basis. We have shifts available from 8:30am-11:30am Monday-Friday (no weekends!).

Location: Volunteer drivers will leave from our headquarters at 5904 California Ave Nashville, TN 37209

Requirements: Valid driver's license, comfortability driving a van, ability to commit to a set schedule. No CDL required!

Interested in helping The Nashville Food Project leverage food that is already in our community to meet the needs of our neighbors? Join us for a “Best Use” prep session! We receive weekly bulk donations from incredible partners such as Costco and Bells Bend Farms. Our “Best Use” prep sessions focus on turning those bulk donations into prepared, usable ingredients to be incorporated into our meals! Over 40% of food in the U.S. goes to waste and our food recovery efforts are a form of resistance to the myth that hunger is a scarcity issue! “Best Use” group prep sessions are a wonderful way to build team comradery, perfect your dicing skills, and support the work of community food security simultaneously!   

"Best Use" Prep sessions take place in our commercial kitchen setting, supported by our Meals team. Sample tasks may include: chopping and assembling veggie and fruit salads from donated produce, washing, coring, and dicing fresh harvests of tomatoes to be incorporated into sauces for the week’s coming meals, sorting recovered hauls to identify usable ingredients and separating compostable items to be broken down in our compost systems to act as inputs for our garden spaces, scrubbing, peeling and chopping farm-fresh potatoes to serve as a roasted root vegetable side for the week’s mobile meals and many other similar roles!  

In addition to responding in Get Connected, to register, view upcoming opportunities, or find out more, please visit our website and sign up through the POINT platform! Registration takes under 30 seconds!